"It Derives Pleasure as Opposed to Pain"
We build tools and methods for AI-assisted creation that are effective, auditable, and enjoyable to use.
The first AI-native creation methodology. Open source. For any discipline.
HEM gives you a structure for working with AI agents — from a single assistant to fleets of thousands — with governance, measurement, legal safety, and the tools to produce consistent, auditable, high-quality results. It works for software developers, business planners, artists, operations teams, researchers, and anyone else whose work benefits from AI collaboration.
What's in the box:
hemCLI — initialize projects, measure satisfaction, validate governance- HEM MCP Server — 33 tools for any MCP-compatible host (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf)
- 12 Industry Application Packs — discipline-specific workflows and prompts
- Hedonistic Measure — quantified satisfaction scoring (because output quality isn't enough)
- Fleet Governance — dynamic scaling from 1 to 50,000 agents with circuit breakers
- Cryptographic Signing — system-enforced provenance on every record
- DIKW Knowledge Store — persistent memory that matures from data to wisdom
- Legal Safety — copyright, patent, and licensing awareness built into every agent prompt
# Get started in 30 seconds
git clone https://github.com/hedonistic-io/method.git ~/.hem-source
cd ~/.hem-source && make install
mkdir my-project && cd my-project && hem init📖 Getting Started Guide · 📐 What Is HEM? · 🤝 Contributing
Encrypted filesystem tooling.
Hedonism in engineering isn't about indulgence — it's about the pursuit of pleasure through the absence of pain. Pain in creation is friction: broken context, lost work, hallucinated scope, legal anxiety, inconsistent quality. We build the tools that eliminate that friction.
Quality Priority: Correctness > Security > Simplicity > Maintainability > Performance
Build with Verve. Ship with Élan. Measure with Honesty.