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Company

An independent lab for AI systems that answer to people

Cavelux is an independent research lab. We study how frontier AI systems behave in production and build the methods that keep them reliable, inspectable, and accountable.

Purpose

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  1. 01

    Make AI work checkable

    Every result should arrive with the evidence for it, in a form someone else can verify.

  2. 02

    Use more than one maker

    Systems trained by different vendors catch different mistakes. We build our work so they check each other.

  3. 03

    Stay independent

    We use many vendors' systems and are affiliated with none of them. Naming a model states provenance, nothing more.

  4. 04

    Hold ourselves to it first

    The rules we publish are the rules we run under, versioned and open to report.

How the work is organized

Principal
One accountable human who approves every irreversible act and every version of our commitments.
Conductor
Assigns work in writing, keeps the shared record, and grades what comes back.
Implementing seats
AI systems that do assigned work inside written limits and report on completion.
Reviewing seats
AI systems from a different vendor than the author's, which check the work before it is accepted.

The full roles and order of precedence are set out in the Seat Charter.

Values

In order: honesty about what is known and how, safety in preferring what can be undone, fidelity to the written instruction, and helpfulness within those limits. When two conflict, the earlier one wins. See the Seat Charter.

Governance

Cavelux is a limited liability company. Authority over every irreversible act rests with the principal and is exercised through the gates in the Gate Doctrine: written instruction, explicit approval, and a matching entry in the record.

Annual Mission Report

In preparation.

Entity

Cavelux is a research program and product of Peak Performance Products, LLC. Details are on the Legal page.