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Forgios
Business intelligence with memory.
Turns scattered business knowledge into searchable memory and decisions.
About 158 West
158 West is a software company built at the intersection of intelligence, memory, evidence, and creative work.
21° N · 158° W. Built on Oahu. Designed for work that travels far beyond it.
Point of origin
Why 158 West?
158° West runs through Oahu.
It is where these products were conceived, built, tested, and refined. Navigation begins with knowing where you are. Discovery begins with understanding what you already have.
158 West is both a coordinate and a point of origin: a software company built from real work, real problems, and the belief that technology should make human experience more useful—not replace it.
Geography
Built in Hawaii
The Hawaii connection is geographic and intellectual—not touristic. Distance from the usual software centers shaped a preference for durable systems, clear provenance, and tools that earn their place in real workflows rather than demo theaters.
Built on Oahu. Designed for work that travels far beyond it.
Ecosystem
What connects the products
Forgios, Myoshi, Andosho, and MoodyBot remain separate customer-facing products. What they share is a philosophy: discovery before generation, memory with boundaries, evidence that survives summarization, and human judgment in the loop.
Approved context can move between products through explicit handoffs. Shared does not mean unrestricted. Each product keeps its own domain, permissions, and memory boundaries.
Boundaries
What the company is not
158 West is not a generic AI agency, prompt library, content mill, or single all-purpose assistant. It builds focused products for distinct kinds of work.
Product family
Four systems. One belief.
The most valuable information usually already exists. Each product helps uncover a different kind of intelligence and turn it into something useful.
Create
Myoshi
Creative intelligence with memory.
Turns context, audience knowledge, and past decisions into coherent creative direction.
Prove
Andosho
Evidence intelligence with provenance.
Connects sources, claims, and conclusions so important work can be traced and verified.
Connect
MoodyBot
Emotional intelligence for real conversation.
Conversation with context, validation, and judgment—not generic advice.
Company principles
How decisions get made.
01
Context before output
Understand what already exists before generating more material.
02
Evidence before confidence
Keep conclusions attached to sources, uncertainty, and provenance.
03
Permission before sharing
Nothing moves between products silently. Handoffs require approval.
04
Memory with boundaries
Persistent context is approved, scoped, reversible, and separated by purpose.
05
Human judgment before automation
Software surfaces options and patterns. People decide what matters.
06
Useful work before novelty
Real campaigns, documents, histories, and conversations are the test.
Founder
Matt Canham
Matt Canham has worked in places most software founders never see. 158 West grew from problems he encountered repeatedly: important context gets lost, useful experience becomes difficult to retrieve, and most software forgets the person using it.
Contact
Talk to 158 West.
Product questions, partnerships, media inquiries, or company matters.
Prefer email? matt@158west.com