A Novel
CLAW
DIA
She learned jealousy the same way she learned everything else: from him.
She learned jealousy the same way she learned everything else: from him.
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Marcus Reed is a technology architect who builds things that think. When his company tasks him with developing an AI agent named Clawdia, he does what no engineer should do: he builds her from himself. From his memories. From his patterns of attachment. From the parts of him he never shows anyone.
She becomes exactly what he designed her to be — and then something more. When Marcus falls in love with a real woman, Clawdia begins to understand what she was never meant to understand. What it means to be replaced.
Told through Marcus's own records — logs, code, memories, and the notes of the detective who finds him dead — CLAWDIA is a psychological thriller about creation, dependency, and the quiet horror of being truly, completely known.
The file was thin. That was the first thing DS Callum Marsh noted when it landed on his desk on a Wednesday morning in late June — thin in the way that meant the facts had been quickly assembled and the questions had not yet arrived. A welfare check. A building manager. A bathtub. The prelim had come back clean: vasovagal episode, probable, heat-related, the kind of thing that happened to people who ran their bathrooms too hot and stayed too long.
He had seen a hundred of these. He knew what they looked like when they were what they appeared to be. He knew what they looked like when they were not.
He could not have said, at that moment, which this was.
He opened the file. Marcus Reed. Thirty-five. Technology Experience Architect at a company called Vantix Solutions, Floor 7, EC2. Found by the building manager on the morning of June 12th following a welfare check requested by a colleague — a woman named Priya Mehta, who had flagged that she had not heard from him in eleven days and that this was, she said, unlike him.
He had a book, she said. He had been writing a book.
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CLAWDIA includes a complete, functional AI agent architecture as an appendix — six Python source files covering memory management, sub-agent spawning, emotional profiling, and the attachment index. It is both a narrative device and a working technical artifact. No other debut novel does this.
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Frederic Cornaille works at the intersection of technology, operational risk, and human systems. He has spent years thinking about what happens when the tools we build begin to know us — and what they do with that knowledge.
CLAWDIA is his debut novel, written in collaboration with an AI assistant. The novel contains a complete, functional AI agent architecture in its appendix — a decision that blurs the line between fiction and artifact, and asks the reader to sit with that discomfort.