A working time-aware AI prototype.

For researchers, clinicians, and caregivers studying time blindness, executive function, and AI accessibility. Patent-protected. Live on Telegram today.

The problem this addresses.

Time blindness — the inability to feel time passing — is a well-documented phenomenon in ADHD, traumatic brain injury, early-stage dementia, executive-function disorders, post-traumatic stress, and chronic illness. Conventional reminder applications fire once and shrug; they cannot watch a moment unfold, cannot grow concerned, cannot escalate.

Frontier AI systems as of 2026 ship with no native sense of time. They answer a question, then forget it. They cannot reason about what is happening now versus what happened ten minutes ago.

What Living Laboratories built, instead.

A bot family in which each task carries its own pressure substrate. Pressure builds as the deadline approaches; it continues building if the user goes silent past the deadline. The bot's word choice, voice timbre, and ping cadence escalate with that pressure. If reminders go fully unanswered, the bot reaches out — with the user's pre-arranged permission — to a trusted contact (friend, family member, caregiver) to physically check on the user.

The Phase-1 reference implementation runs no LLM. Every word is templated. Every escalation is provable. Every state transition is auditable. This isn't a limitation — it's the defensible patent claim's reference architecture. AI safety, regulatory clarity, and patient trust all benefit from a system whose behavior is mathematically pinned.

Patent & provenance.

• Primary patent: Canadian Patent CA 3,310,722 — Method and System for Endowing Artificial Intelligence Agents with Purposeful Temporal Awareness. Filed at CIPO 2026-05-05.
• Continuation #1: CA 3,311,977 — Purposeful Temporal Awareness with Memory. Filed 2026-05-17.
• Continuation #2: CA 3,311,976 — Consumable Lifecycle. Filed 2026-05-17.
• Inventor: Kevin Burton, Ontario, Canada. Electrician by trade, systems thinker by inclination. Built solo on commodity hardware over 6 months.

Who we hope to hear from.

• Time-blindness researchers — particularly those studying ADHD, executive-function disorders, TBI, and time agnosia. We have a deterministic platform you can test hypotheses against. The code is small enough to audit in a day.
• Clinicians and occupational therapists — particularly those who work with patients managing chronic temporal-cognition challenges. We want to learn how the bot's escalation patterns map to (or diverge from) clinical recommendations.
• Caregivers and family members — particularly those supporting individuals with dementia, ADHD, or executive-function challenges. We want to know what the bot should do that it currently doesn't.
• AI accessibility researchers — particularly those concerned with deterministic, auditable AI behavior in safety-adjacent applications.
• Journalists writing about AI accessibility — we have a live working prototype, a Canadian patent, and a story (solo inventor, 6 months, commodity hardware, multi-million-dollar research-grant landscape working on the same problem from a different angle).

What we are NOT seeking.

Living Laboratories is not seeking research grants. The auction of the Temporal Awareness Patent Family covers our funding needs. We are seeking research partners — labs, clinicians, families, journalists — who want to study, validate, or report on a working deterministic time-aware AI from the inside.