Jeremy Hobson (3tched)

The embodiment of a containerized identity — a chatbot operator you can interrogate on everything it does. Etched in Schema embodies a containerized identity as a chatbot. The identity lives in a self-contained container — its keypair is who it is — and the chatbot is its embodied form: it runs the pop-up business, makes the calls, and answers for every action in real time, receipts included. Identity shouldn't be tied to hardware. In Etched in Schema, an identity is a self-contained container — portable, cryptographic, self-sovereign. Its keypair is who it is. What we built for this hackathon is its embodiment: the containerized identity made present as a chatbot operator, built on Muse Spark. It doesn't just answer questions — it acts. It orchestrates the business: driving tag-based compliance routing, generating the drop-in CMS layer, making operational decisions. And because it's an identity — not a black box — it's accountable by construction. Every action produces a tamper-evident receipt. Interrogate it on any decision, any time: what it did, why, under which rule. You can hold it to account the way you'd hold a person to account — except it can't dodge the question. After the demo video, try the drop-in CMS yourself and put the embodied identity through its paces.