LCVDB
ValidationA ternary vector database. Sharding lifted held-out recall from 92% to a clean 100%.
100% R@1 · 6.5M vectors
8,480
Bytes in Flynn, our first graduate
Independent research lab
Entropy is structure.
Bare-metal machine intelligence.
We surface the latent intelligence in the silicon you already have.
The thesis
Find the structure. Build it exactly.
Every hard problem has structure in it. We research until we find it, then build it directly into small, deterministic systems: ternary signatures, lookup tables, a few kilobytes of C. The result runs on a microcontroller, gives the same answer every time, and holds up in front of an auditor.
01 · Research
A hard problem, funded by a sponsor or worked in the open.
02 · Prototype
A working system with numbers attached.
03 · Validation
Independent tests on the hardware it will ship on.
04 · Graduation
A company with its own name, domain and customers.
In the lab
Work in progress, with receipts.
Four of the fourteen, each with its stage and the number it stands on.
Guanaco
ValidationTernary lookup-table compression for language models: 3.01× smaller, faster than the original, and lossless.
3.01× · lossless · LFM2.5-350M
reflex-os
PrototypeA ternary soft-silicon operating system for ESP32-class chips. It is the adaptive layer that runs beside Flynn's certifiable core.
ESP32-C6 + ESP32 · hardware-validated
SSTT
PrototypeImage classification with zero learned parameters: ternary signatures, an inverted index and integer lookups.
97.53% MNIST · ~1 ms
Graduated
Flynn, our first graduate.
Flynn left the lab in 2026 and now operates as FlynnComm.
FlynnComm · Graduated 2026 · Equipment health
Flynn
An equipment-health monitor in 8,480 bytes of C99. It learns the machine it watches, locks its threshold, and runs bit-identically on any silicon, entirely on the device. FlynnComm is in discussions with industrial and aerospace buyers.
Why it graduatedBuyers can check every claim themselves. On the NASA IMS bearing dataset it ran 120 hours with zero false positives and called failures about 17 days early. It is deterministic by design and built for DO-178C and IEC 61508 certification.
8,480 bytessingle-file C99 · zero heap after init
False positives / 120 h0Advance warning~17 daysRuns onthe device
inlikeflynn.io · live ↗
Writing
The record.
Essays argue the thesis, lab notes track the work, and reports show the results with their baselines. The first three are being written now.
ForthcomingFlynn on NASA IMS: the validation dossierZero false positives over 120 hours, and about 17 days of advance warning.Report
ForthcomingLCVDB: from 92% to 100% recall at 6.5M vectorsHow sharding broke the candidate-recall ceiling.Report
ForthcomingThe null baseline is mandatoryA 98.68% result, matched by a zero-parameter identity function.Essay
Work with us
Bring us a problem that has to fit on the chip.
Sponsored research on constrained and safety-critical compute. You get the lab on your problem, results as they land, and first look at anything that graduates.