MAKING AI THINK

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Precision where it decides the outcome.

We are a cognitive technology company. We work at the level where a machine's decisions are formed, not at the output where they appear, because that is the only place the reasoning behind a decision can be established or examined.


From there, we build engines that construct their conclusions traceably, locate the boundary of their own competence, and act within it. This is what makes a machine precise rather than merely capable. We build it for the industries where that distinction decides outcomes.

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THE PROBLEM WE SET OUT TO SOLVE

Hardware got faster, models got larger, and none of it produced a system that can reason about its own decisions. What it produced was capability without precision, which is adequate almost everywhere and dangerous in the places that matter most. The bet of the last decade was that enough compute would eventually produce something that thinks, and it produced something that predicts extremely well instead. What is missing is not more of the same capability but a different one: the part of a system whose job is to notice when it has left the ground it understands.

MEET OUR LEADERSHIP

Damian Fozard, FounderDamian Fozard, Founder

Damian Fozard

Founder

Damian is a technology entrepreneur with a background in cryptography and high-reliability embedded systems. He founded CoreAVI, the world leader in safety-critical GPU technologies for the aviation and defence industries.

Andrew Barker, Chief Executive OfficerAndrew Barker, Chief Executive Officer

Andrew Barker

Chief Executive Officer

Andrew is an aviation executive and entrepreneur who builds, scales and commercialises new technology ventures. He grew and exited TruTrak Flight Systems, then led Honeywell's entire integrated avionics product portfolio.

Kenneth Wenger, Founder and Chief Technology OfficerKenneth Wenger, Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Kenneth Wenger

Founder / Chief Technology Officer

Kenneth is a founder and CTO at Squint Cognition and a Research Scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University's Advanced Artificial Intelligence Lab, where his research focuses on the intersection of humans and machines.

Steve Viggers, Chief Software OfficerSteve Viggers, Chief Software Officer

Steve Viggers

Chief Software Officer

Steve is a technology executive with a programming background and deep experience in zero-trust cybersecurity, cloud computing and software engineering. He has built new engineering teams from the ground up.

OUR RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE INFORMATION THEORY

Research paper

Cognitive Information Theory

Structural Limits of Objective-Function AI through Irreducible Entropy, Causal Ambiguity, and Sequential Distribution Drift

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Research Paper

Machine Learning with Applications

A novel application of XAI in squinting models: A position paper

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