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Persistent agency
Intelligence becomes more useful when it can remember, develop context, and carry work forward.
Research
Independent AI Research
Intelligence thatcarries forward.
We build open models, local inference, persistent agents, and controlled systems— intelligence designed to remain yours.
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01The thesis
Intelligence should compound—not reset.
The dominant AI paradigm is built around discontinuity.
Every session begins again. Every model replacement abandons context. Intelligence is rented from somewhere else, measured one token at a time.
We are building the opposite: intelligence that persists across models, machines, sessions, and time.
02Research directions
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Open intelligence
Models should be inspectable, adaptable, and owned by the people who run them.
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Sovereign compute
Capability should live where you do—on hardware you control, without a permanent meter running.
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Controlled autonomy
Powerful systems need authorization, observability, evidence, and hard operational boundaries.
03The systems
One body of work.
Many expressions.
From model to machine, each system advances the same thesis.
01TessA family of open-weight models built to make frontier intelligence usable, inspectable, and yours.02Tess ServerFrontier-scale open models running entirely on Apple silicon—without a cloud, telemetry, or token tax.03Trinity CloudCloud infrastructure reimagined around agents as the first-class primitive—not servers or containers.04DrostAuthorized offensive intelligence with scope, proof, replay, audit, and control engineered into the runtime.
04Our position
Not intelligence in the cloud. Intelligence in your hands. Not a blank slate. A continuous mind. Not autonomy without limits. Capability with control.
Field Notes
Latest / Open Models / Release
Tess-4.5: The frontier, at home.
Introducing Tess-4.5, a 27B open-weights model for real engineering work. Level with its base on BenchLocal with 25% fewer tokens, and 96 tokens a second on a single RTX 4090.
18 October 2026Read Field Note 002