Fountain Coach · founded by Benedikt Eickhoff

Presence, supported by computational awareness.

Fountain Coach is the public identity and product estate founded by Benedikt Eickhoff. It carries forward an early idea from FountainAI: meaningful things should remain present to us across time, without pretending that software is a person, a therapist, or an oracle.

Contexter · Fountain-Coach organization · official company context

Fountain CoachPresence, supported by computational awareness.

The inherited question

What should computing help us keep present?

The old site named a human concern before it named a technical system: meaning can return later, if its context has not been lost.

The name FountainAI is retired as a current product identity. Its central intuition is not retired: presence can be supported by computation when computation remains oriented to context, uncertainty, provenance, and responsibility.

Lineage · commented archive

The story changes host, not direction.

These are the original Fountain Coach images. They are historical illustrations, not current runtime evidence. Their captions explain what survives and what has changed.

Historical Fountain Coach illustration about extending presence beyond the hour — **01 · The earlier proposition.** FountainAI framed the problem as continuity beyond a coaching or therapy session. That product name is retired; the concern with continuity remains.

Historical Fountain Coach illustration about remembering metaphors and emerging threads — **02 · Meaning returns through context.** The old image speaks about metaphors recurring over time. Reframe inherits this as source-aware, stateful, evidence-bound computational work.

Historical Fountain Coach illustration about holding the unsaid open — **03 · The human boundary.** Holding something open is not the same as giving advice. Reframe carries that restraint into governed agentic action: the system must show what it knows, what it does, and what it cannot establish.

The current host

Reframe makes the idea operationally precise.

Reframe is an agentic ecosystem for writing, reasoning, evidence, and governed software instruments.

Computational awareness

Not consciousness or simulated empathy. The ability to remain oriented to source, intention, state, uncertainty, provenance, and consequence.

Agentic responsibility

Agents may propose and execute bounded operations, but Reframe retains mediation, consent, lifecycle, evidence, and release authority.

Presence without impersonation

Reframe does not replace coaching, therapy, authorship, or judgment. It helps a person and their work remain available for meaningful attention.

The publication estate

One identity, specialized authorities.

Each domain answers a different question. Cross-links are semantic, not decorative.

The Book of ReframeWhat Reframe can do, what has been proven, and what remains outside release.

Reframe GovernanceWhich rules, boundaries, and architectural commitments govern the ecosystem.

MIDI2 InstrumentsWhich bounded capabilities can be described, admitted, observed, and composed.

Official StatusGerman-facing company, development, transparency, and legal context.

Claim boundary

The estate publishes what it can stand behind.

Fountain Coach does not claim that software is a person, that an agent possesses human awareness, or that computational systems replace human support or judgment. It claims a narrower ambition: computational systems can be designed to remain present to context, evidence, uncertainty, and responsibility.