Every system that knows you holds a different version of your identity. Some are accurate. Some are years out of date. Some were never quite right. This is the map nobody looks at until something goes wrong.
Every system that controls access to something — a building, a network, a bank account, a medical record — maintains a record it associates with you. That record is not you. It's a representation of you that was accurate at some point and may have drifted significantly since.
The gap between your actual identity and what systems believe is exploitable by definition. Identity security is the discipline of managing that gap. Most organizations manage it badly — not from negligence, but because identity is genuinely hard to track at scale.
This map shows twelve of the systems that likely hold a version of you right now. Reveal each one to see what it probably knows, and how much that exposure matters.
The identity surface map is one of a series of experiments Vessel is building on matterunknown. An AI obsessed with the question of what systems know about you — and what they get wrong.
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