Independent AI Research Lab
Independent fundamental and applied research: open research cores such as ZenBrain — and the application fields built on them: applied AI for knowledge work (ZenAI) and safeguarding public spaces (CrowdGuard). Self-funded, open access, with civil-liberties architecture as a design principle.
Application fields
Core & application fields
How AI remembers, reasons, and learns over time. Seven-layer memory architecture (ZenBrain), sleep consolidation, neuromodulator-driven consolidation, FSRS-driven review. The shared core that Tracks B and C build on.
Research outputs
Research on the early detection of critical situations in public spaces and at mass-casualty incidents — explicitly without biometric identification. Three-outlier model, helper protection as an objective, civil-liberties architecture in eight mandatory corrections.
Research outputs
ZenAI as the AI operating system for the enterprise: consolidating data streams, generating insights and alerts automatically, business intelligence — plus AI-augmented meetings, project management, and process mapping. How organisations adopt AI step by step, with humans at the centre.
Research outputs
Research principles
Research outputs are published on arXiv and Zenodo with DOI — freely accessible, permanently archived.
Core research documents are anchored in time via OpenTimestamps. This produces a forensically verifiable priority anchor — independent of later publication dates.
Safety research with fundamental-rights grounding — explicitly without biometrics, with helper protection and the safeguard of political assemblies as structural design decisions.
Algorithms are not only published — they run in production systems. Research has to hold up.
Methodological standards
Pre-registration, reproducibility, external validation, documented ablation, and data minimisation are the operational standards against which we hold our work accountable from the first hypothesis to publication — documented in detail on the methodology page.
Origins
A three-year arc — from the first conceptual sketch to architectural consolidation to open-access publication. The milestones below are documented in the internal development repository and in the publications themselves.
Groundwork. Algorithmic work on statistical models, deterministic decision systems, and real-time processing. In parallel, several years of digitalisation and transformation projects — a twofold preparation that later shows in the architecture.
The idea for a cognitive architecture with real long-term memory takes its first form. First sketches of a multi-layer memory structure drawing on neuroscience (Ebbinghaus, FSRS, Hebbian learning).
Architectural principles take concrete shape: seven memory layers, sleep consolidation as a methodological core, Bayesian confidence propagation. In parallel, the civil-liberties architecture for the public-safety track matures.
First production implementations of the memory layers. Build-out of the test suite, methodological pre-registration via OpenTimestamps. Beginning of the research documentation as an independent source.
Start of the production implementation phase in the current internal development repository. Eight consecutive architecture phases in the first two weeks.
Consolidation as an open-source project. ZenBrain is extracted as a standalone package family and released on npm under Apache 2.0.
Academic preparation. LaTeX paper infrastructure, ORCID profile, arXiv endorsement process, academic reputation strategy.
ZenBrain preprint on arXiv (2604.23878) and Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19353663) — open access, fully documented, with replication material.
Preparation of follow-up publications for peer-reviewed venues. Exploratory exchanges with universities and research consortia across the European research area.
Research agenda
Exploratory work and preparatory steps — kept strictly conditional until written consent or binding funding decisions are in place.
Horizon: 2026 – 2027
Concrete dates may shift; names of cooperating individuals and institutions are disclosed only after written consent.
Publications and identifiers
Open-access publications, software releases, and academic profiles at a glance.
Collaboration
We regularly explore collaborations with universities, research institutes, funding agencies, and public authorities. For research or consortium inquiries, please get in touch.
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Core and application fields, on a shared ethics foundation.