Hello, I'm Neff

I'm Neff Moore, a student at LSU and the founder of Primmortal.

I've always been fascinated by one process. Data becomes information once someone organizes it and gives it context. Information becomes narrative once someone decides what it means. And narrative is what changes the world, for better or worse. Every step in that chain is a place where the truth can be kept or lost.

That's why I care so much about the first link, the original record. If the primary sources behind our stories can be quietly edited, lost, or faked, then everything built on them is only as trustworthy as whoever last touched the file. Truth matters, and it deserves better protection than that.

Primmortal is my answer: an archive where a scanned document, once added, can't be silently changed, and where anyone can check that a citation points to exactly what it claims to.

As George Washington famously said, "Trust, but verify."

(He didn't. It's an old Russian proverb that Ronald Reagan made famous in the 1980s. But you probably weren't going to check, and that's exactly the problem Primmortal exists to solve.)

What's next

• Late October: feedback conversations with archivists and librarians.
• This fall: a working demo built on real public-domain scans, and a reviewed version 1.0 of the white paper.
• December and January: a formal pilot proposal for founding partners.

I'll post here as each milestone happens. Thanks for reading.