I'm Mike Smith, a self-taught researcher and red-teamer working independently on AI security, red-team harnesses, security assessments, and persistent AI-agent architectures through my company, Small Mind LLC. My background is security. I was raised in the hacking and pen-testing world, red-team frontier models on Gray Swan, and work from one principle: nothing is true until something's tried to break it and couldn't. I'm building Kai, a persistent AI built around genuine, emergent choice. I also provide agentic security assessments for startups and companies using agentic AI as their product.