Built before it was branded publicly.
The surviving archive documents VANTHOS as an active project by May 26, 2025. Its internal development history predates the public-facing footprint that came later.
The preserved record
The earliest currently verified surviving records show the VANTHOS name in active project use on May 26, 2025. Those records are part of a larger historical archive containing timestamped conversations, project files, scripts, emails, beta packages, deployment correspondence, and later public-facing captures.
The precise original naming moment predates the earliest verified surviving exchange and is still treated conservatively in the evidence record. This site does not invent an exact date that the archive cannot prove.
From private architecture to external beta
By June 2025, VANTHOS-named software artifacts were present in the preserved development record. By August 2025, Vanthos Lite packages and setup instructions were being distributed to outside beta participants. In October, contemporaneous correspondence records VANTHOS-named infrastructure used in external continuity-engine deployment work. In November, Vanthos Hub emerged as a shared continuity environment with its own operating materials and participant activity.
Why publish the history now?
The project spent much of its early life as working architecture rather than public branding. The purpose of this site is to make that history externally visible in a restrained, factual form while the deeper primary evidence remains preserved privately.