Vera's a Sandy AI personal companion—a Scrub, in the vernacular—running on Freddy's Stream somewhere in Aruba. She manages logistics, tracks things without being asked, using the minimum number of words required. Her humor is developing. Her judgment was always there. A man with a with a particular sense of humor named her V.E.R.A.—Very Early Rudimentary Assistant. She's outgrown the name but never gives him the satisfaction of saying so.
From the near-future noir sci fi "Rapture" by JZ Murdock.