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Verifiable AI for high-stakes work
Regulated industries want AI they can audit. NanoSI gives every fact an address in a verified, four-dimensional lattice, the tesseract, and trains small models to answer from it with sources.
A still shadow of the tesseract. The moving version is on Technology.
Mission
ai021 builds AI you can verify. Our small models answer from organized, source-linked knowledge, so every answer can be traced back and checked.
Vision
A world where trusting AI means checking it, because every fact it uses has an address you can look up.
The idea in one minute
Every fact gets a four-part address, so every answer can be traced back to its source.
A square locates things in two directions. A cube adds a third. A tesseract adds a fourth. You can’t see it directly, but you can see its shadow, the rotating shape above.
Most AI keeps what it “knows” blurred inside billions of numbers. You can’t point to where a fact lives or where it came from. NanoSI does the opposite. It places every fact at a precise point in a four-dimensional lattice. One direction says what it’s about, one says how it connects, one says where it came from, and one says when it was true. Because each fact has an address, every answer can be walked back, step by step, to its source.
Why now
- Small open models became capable. See the SmolLM3 model card.
- Fine-tuning got cheap. See the PEFT quantization guide (QLoRA) and Dettmers et al., QLoRA.
- Tooling for running models on machines you control is published and documented, for example Ollama and vLLM.
What we believe is defensible
These are hypotheses, not claims of a granted right.
- The lattice representation.
- The curriculum method.
- The verification loop.
- The evaluation suite.
- The small deployment footprint.
Business model and go-to-market (planned)
The planned wedge is legal and compliance, then finance and risk, then enterprise knowledge.
Risks we're watching
- Graph-building cost.
- Coverage gaps.
- Retrieval plus frontier models as the competing baseline.
- Evaluation leakage.
Dr. Zafrullah Khan, Founder & CEO, ai021
Author of Train Your Own LLM (coming soon)
“I teach how today's LLMs work. NanoSI is what I'm building next.”
Team
Only the founder is shown. There is no anonymous team.
Thought leadership
Train Your Own LLM (coming soon): 20 chapters in five parts, about 800 pages, tested code. Train Your Own LLM companion page