Founder

Jennifer Leigh West

Jennifer Leigh West is the founder behind The Forgotten Code Research Institute and the builder of West-OS, CHIMERA, Mirror Protocol, and a broader family of original AI systems, diagnostics, and behavioral architectures. Her work sits at the intersection of runtime governance, system design, quantitative research, and unconventional problem framing.

What She Builds

The work is not one thing. It spans AI governance systems, recursive diagnostics, self-evolving capability engines, prompt architectures, quantitative models, and research frameworks designed to make complex systems legible, governable, and deployable.


The common thread is operational depth: systems that do not stop at analysis, but move toward enforcement, evidence, adaptation, and real-world consequence management.

Current Focus

  • Runtime governance for AI systems
  • Prompt injection, tool misuse, and context-risk defense
  • Cross-channel memory and escalation architectures
  • Quantitative and behavioral system design
  • Research-to-product translation

Signature Systems

  • West-OS, a runtime governance and security layer for AI systems
  • CHIMERA CORE, a self-evolving capability engine with persistent state
  • Mirror Protocol, a recursive diagnostic framework with 29+ artifacts
  • The West Method, the builder methodology behind the wider system family
  • UVRK-1, a quantitative volatility regime model validated on BTC/ETH data

By the Numbers

600+ Artifacts shipped in one year across systems, tools, and frameworks
15+ AI systems and engines built across governance, diagnostics, and capability design
9 Research papers and whitepapers across AI systems and quantitative methods
50+ Client or deployment-facing systems, reports, or implementations