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License & copyright
The research on this site is published to be read, shared and built on — with credit, and with a link back to where it came from. The systems it describes are a different matter: they are private property, and publishing about them grants no right to use them.
Effective 12 October 2026. © 2026 MAX Research Collective. All rights reserved, except the permission granted in section 2.
1. Copyright
Every article, white paper, series part, figure and field note on maxresearchcollective.com (together, “the articles”) is an original work of authorship protected by the United States Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 102. The exclusive rights to reproduce, adapt, distribute and display them, 17 U.S.C. § 106, belong to MAX Research Collective.
2. Permission to share the articles
The articles are published for public use. They are free to read, with no account, subscription or payment. MAX Research Collective grants permission to link to, share, quote from and reproduce the articles, in whole or in part, in any medium, on these conditions:
- Attribution. Credit the author and publisher: Jason Newell, MAX Research Collective.
- A link back to the original. Every quotation or reproduction carries a visible, working link to the original article page on maxresearchcollective.com — the page itself, not the home page or a copy hosted elsewhere.
- Changes marked. Say whether you changed the text, and do not change it in a way that alters its meaning.
- No implied endorsement. Do not present your use as connected with, sponsored or approved by MAX Research Collective.
These conditions follow the attribution terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, section 3(a), and apply to people and to automated systems alike. A search engine or an AI assistant that quotes or summarizes an article is expected to name it and link to its original page. The permission does not extend to republishing the articles as your own work, selling them or access to them, or copying the site in bulk to host a mirror of it.
The author’s name, the copyright notice and the link to each article’s page are copyright management information under 17 U.S.C. § 1202(c). Keep them with any copy. Nothing on this page limits fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107.
3. The MAX, MARA, REEF and Scout systems
The articles describe software systems built by MAX Research Collective. The writing about them is covered by section 2. The systems themselves are not:
MAX — Modular Algorithmic eXecutor
A local-first, voice-first AI resident: one process on one machine, with graph memory, a voice you can interrupt, and every claim checked before it is trusted. See MAX3.
MARA — Medical Agentic Resident Assistant
MAX applied to healthcare. It learns from every encounter, from the triage call to the paid claim, and makes recommendations to every provider. It never makes the clinical decision. See MARA.
REEF
Not an acronym: the name of an ecosystem of technology, intelligence and integration for network visibility and gateway defense. It is local-first, fuses a fleet of sensors into one picture, and puts every action that changes the network behind an approval. See REEF.
Scout
Not an acronym. MAX’s development guard dog: a code reviewer that runs on its owner’s own machine and learns from every finding the review lanes have ever made.
The source code, models, designs, configurations and data of these systems are the protected property of MAX Research Collective, developed for the owner’s personal and restricted use. They are kept confidential and held as trade secrets within the meaning of the Oregon Uniform Trade Secrets Act, ORS 646.461, and the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1839. The articles, screenshots, demonstrations and previews on this site describe the systems; they do not disclose or license them. No right to use, copy, modify, deploy, distribute or create derivative works from any of the systems is granted.
MAX, MARA, REEF and Scout are names MAX Research Collective uses for its own systems. Please do not use them to name another product or to suggest a connection with one.
Demonstrations and preview videos on this site may be viewed here. They are not covered by the permission in section 2.
4. No warranty, and not professional advice
The articles are provided for information, as they are, without warranty of any kind. Articles on healthcare, law, security and finance describe research and engineering practice. They are not medical, legal, security or financial advice for your situation.
5. Governing law
This notice is made under the laws of the United States and the State of Oregon.
6. Anything else
For any use this page does not cover — a license to one of the systems, a reprint without the conditions above, or a question about whether a use is covered — contact the collective.