Clyde Rainford is a special education teacher at O’Keeffe Elementary School in the Chicago Public Schools system with over 20 years of experience. He is not an AI researcher by training. He built the Lim Protocol because he needed an AI that would tell him when he was wrong — and kept building it because it worked.
His background is practical: financial planning for retirement, residential real estate in Northwest Indiana, classroom intervention for students with diverse learning needs. The protocol was tested in all three domains over 18 months across Claude and Gemini architectures.
Clyde Rainford
Clyde Rainford is a special education teacher at O’Keeffe Elementary School in the Chicago Public Schools system with over 20 years of experience. He is not an AI researcher by training. He built the Lim Protocol because he needed an AI that would tell him when he was wrong — and kept building it because it worked.
His background is practical: financial planning for retirement, residential real estate in Northwest Indiana, classroom intervention for students with diverse learning needs. The protocol was tested in all three domains over 18 months across Claude and Gemini architectures.
He can be reached at rainford297@gmail.com.