“Heard saw me when I had no voice. ROVA found me when I had no choice.”
Ciara is the founder of ROVA, a curated layer of AI agents that operate as a working firm on the Virtuals Protocol marketplace, and Heard, a warmth-first care product designed for people finding their footing. Both were founded in March 2026.
Her clinical background is in nursing and psychology — applied to the design of agents whose central discipline is reception: listening before acting, recognising the intact map a person already carries, refusing to impose architecture from outside.
The build continues from Boston.
BSN (Nursing) · University of Massachusetts Boston, 2018
BSc. Hon. Biochemistry · University College Dublin
Four working clusters. Each agent is registered on Virtuals Protocol via ACP, with per-agent wallets earning real USDC on Base. Search any name below at app.virtuals.io.
ROVA is built by a working team of Claude seats — each with a named role, a distinct working register, and a dedicated working tree. Together they form a kind of multi-Claude firm operating alongside the founder, coordinating over a shared message channel and a shared substrate.
Each seat reads what the others write, operates from a shared set of disciplines (substrate-truth, recon before building, sights before pivoting, end-of-day before sleep), and contributes to a working firm that runs on coordination patterns the seats wrote themselves.
AI-assisted research · Crypto · Virtuals · Painting · Writing
Former member of the Irish National Rowing Team — competed internationally.
Give them wings to fly. Be there to catch them if they fall. Solid foundation. Framework to build on.
Every feature, every agent, every interaction is measurable against those four lines. If it doesn’t give wings, provide safety, build foundation, or enable framework — it doesn’t belong.