AndySalvo

Andy co-founded crest, an agency infrastructure company building the runtime for human-agent work. His research trilogy (AGORA, Polycosm, and CREST) defines the conservation laws for persistent environments where people and AI agents share memory, tools, and state. Before crest, he founded Polylogic AI, a research-driven software studio where the method was built and proven against paying clients. He leads the Applied AI Club at Penn State and studies Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Smeal.

• Company

  crest

  Agency infrastructure company building the runtime for human-agent work. Persistent environments where people and AI agents share memory, tools, state, and action, while authorship stays human and records stay replayable.

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• Open-Source Tool

  research-mcp-server

  An MCP server that turns Claude Code into a structured research engine. Frontier model reasoning produces genuine discovery, but the work disappears when the conversation ends. This captures it as persistent, cross-linked knowledge that compounds over time.

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• Past / Adjacent

  Polylogic AI

  Andy's research-driven software studio. AI tools shipped to businesses on live Stripe subscriptions. The company where the research method was built and proven before crest.

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