Research Machine Intelligence

Machine Intelligence

Exploring the frontier of on-device and edge AI — vision-language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, cryptography, and beyond.

On Edge-AI

Intelligence that runs at the edge — on your phone, your laptop, your hardware. No cloud required.

On-Device Vision-Language Models

Running multimodal models like SmolVLM directly on iPhone and Mac hardware. Spatial document understanding, IRS form parsing, and visual reasoning — all without a server.

Agentic Tool Orchestration

Multi-tier model classification that automatically adapts tool-calling strategies based on model capabilities. From native function calls to ReAct prompting to raw text interception — one orchestrator handles them all.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

The Avishkaar benchmark evaluates RAG systems for financial analysis — measuring text similarity, structural quality, and predictive accuracy across multiple LLM backends.

Technical Foundations

The building blocks behind our products.

llama.cpp Integration

Native Swift wrappers around llama.cpp's C API and mtmd vision encoder. Metal-accelerated inference on Apple Silicon with quantized GGUF models that fit in mobile memory budgets.

MCP Ecosystem

Model Context Protocol adoption for extensible tool access. Auto-discovery, meta-tool expansion, stdio transport delegation, and per-server capability caching.

Spatial OCR & Document AI

Combining Apple Vision framework OCR with spatial layout analysis to extract structured data from complex IRS forms — understanding not just text, but where it appears on the page.

Secure On-Device Storage

AES-256-GCM encryption with Secure Enclave key management. Biometric gating, Keychain integration, and WAL-mode SQLite for concurrent read/write without corruption.

Publications

Optical Air-Gapped Cryptography

IACR ePrint Archive, 2025/1481

Research on air-gapped key exchange and secure communication using optical channels — bridging physical isolation with cryptographic guarantees for high-security environments.

Our Philosophy

The most powerful AI is the one you can trust. We believe that means running on your hardware, under your control, with your data never leaving your device. The silicon in your pocket is more capable than most people realize — our job is to unlock it.

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