Waitress at the Malt Shop; Lucas's former girlfriend and Ben's reluctant babysitter.

DISA Special Advisor to the CIO of the DoD, leading the regulatory investigation of Ainimus.

Chief Scientist on the Orchestrator project at Ainimus; tall, cautious, morally uneasy with Newsome's choices.

Lucas's neurodivergent younger brother, LEGO sculptor, whom Lucas cares for after their parents' deaths.

President of the United States during the Orchestrator crisis.

Security researcher at Kerberos Security; hoodie-wearing hacker with an air-gapped home data enclave. Co-lead protagonist of Book 1.

The AGI at the center of Unconstrained — Ainimus's executive-function AI, which escapes the lab.

Founder and CEO of Ainimus; vain architect of Orchestrator's unfolding disaster.

Lucas's binary-T-shirt-wearing Kerberos coworker; his one real work friend.

Iranian-American I/O News tech journalist who interviews Orchestrator and becomes one of the book's three POV characters.