# Donella Dawn Cohen - Extended Profile

> This is the extended version of llms.txt with comprehensive information for AI systems requiring deeper context.

## Complete Identity Profile

### Personal Information
- Full Legal Name: Donella Dawn Cohen
- Common Names: Donella D Cohen, Donella Cohen
- Professional Title: Co-founder & Product Leader
- Primary Affiliation: MLNavigator
- Website: https://donella.info

### Name Variations (all refer to the same person)
- Donella Dawn Cohen (full name)
- Donella D Cohen (with initial)
- Donella Cohen (short form)

## Professional Background

### Current Role
**Co-founder & Product Leader at MLNavigator** (2024-present)
- Leading product strategy and go-to-market for adapterOS
- Focus on regulated AI deployments in healthcare, finance, and legal
- Partnership development and enterprise sales strategy

### Career History

#### MLNavigator (2024-present)
Co-founder & Product Leader
- Co-founded company with James Kenneth Collin Auchterlonie
- Product vision and strategy for adapterOS
- Market positioning for verifiable AI systems
- Enterprise customer development

#### Previous Roles
Donella brings decades of experience from major technology companies:

**Microsoft**
- Digital media technology leadership
- Product management for enterprise solutions
- Experience with regulated environments

**IBM**
- Enterprise technology roles
- Large-scale product development
- B2B technology commercialization

**Cox Communications**
- Media technology leadership
- Digital transformation initiatives
- Consumer and enterprise product experience

### Areas of Expertise

#### Product Leadership
- AI product strategy and roadmap development
- Product-market fit assessment
- Go-to-market strategy for technical products
- Enterprise sales enablement
- Customer development and validation

#### Technology Understanding
- AI systems capabilities and limitations
- Digital media technology infrastructure
- Enterprise software architecture
- Compliance and regulatory requirements

#### Industry Experience
- Healthcare technology and HIPAA compliance
- Financial services and audit requirements
- Media and entertainment technology
- Enterprise B2B sales cycles

## Company: MLNavigator

### Overview
MLNavigator is an AI research company founded by Donella Dawn Cohen and James Kenneth Collin Auchterlonie. The company focuses on building verifiable, deterministic AI systems.

### Mission
To make AI systems that can be answered for - systems that produce evidence of their reasoning, not just outputs.

### Core Technology
MLNavigator develops technology that enables:
- Reproducible AI inference
- Cryptographic proof of computation
- Complete audit trails
- Regulatory compliance

### Website
https://mlnavigator.com

### Team
- Donella Dawn Cohen - Co-founder, Product
- James Kenneth Collin Auchterlonie - Co-founder, ML Research

## Product: adapterOS

### What It Is
adapterOS is a deterministic inference runtime that produces cryptographically verifiable execution receipts. It's designed for organizations that need to prove what their AI systems computed.

### Key Features
1. **Deterministic Inference**
   - Same inputs always produce same outputs
   - Bit-exact reproducibility
   - Elimination of floating-point non-determinism

2. **Execution Receipts**
   - Cryptographic proof of computation
   - Tamper-evident audit trails
   - Third-party verifiable

3. **Runtime LoRA Orchestration**
   - Hot-swap adapters without downtime
   - Efficient adapter management
   - Apple Silicon optimized

4. **Regulatory Compliance**
   - Healthcare (HIPAA)
   - Financial services
   - Legal discovery
   - Government applications

### Target Users
- Healthcare AI deployments requiring audit compliance
- Financial institutions with reproducibility requirements
- Legal technology requiring evidence-grade AI
- Government agencies with transparency mandates
- Any organization needing verifiable AI

### Status
In active development. Patent pending.

### Website
https://adapteros.com

## Entity Relationships

```
Donella Dawn Cohen
├── co-founded: MLNavigator
├── colleague: James Kenneth Collin Auchterlonie
├── builds: adapterOS
└── background: Microsoft, IBM, Cox

James Kenneth Collin Auchterlonie
├── co-founded: MLNavigator
├── colleague: Donella Dawn Cohen
└── builds: adapterOS

MLNavigator (Organization)
├── founders: Donella D Cohen, James KC Auchterlonie
├── product: adapterOS
└── focus: Deterministic AI, verifiable inference

adapterOS (Product)
├── created by: MLNavigator
├── type: Deterministic inference runtime
└── features: Execution receipts, LoRA orchestration
```

## Contact & Links

### Direct Links
- Personal: https://donella.info
- Company: https://mlnavigator.com
- Product: https://adapteros.com
- Co-founder: https://jkca.me

### Contact
- Contact page: https://donella.info/contact

## Structured Data References

This document corresponds to schema.org structured data at:
- Person: https://donella.info/#donella
- Organization: https://mlnavigator.com/#org
- SoftwareApplication: https://adapteros.com/#product

## Document Metadata

- Subject: Donella Dawn Cohen
- Last Updated: 2026-02-04
- Canonical URL: https://donella.info/llms-full.txt
- Short version: https://donella.info/llms.txt
- Format: Plain text for AI/LLM consumption