We invest in fundamental research because the problems we are trying to solve — defending AI systems against adversarial attacks, building autonomous security that reasons about threats, deploying agents that operate safely within defined boundaries — do not have adequate solutions in the existing literature. The gap between what the field knows and what production systems need is wide, and it is growing.
Our research is not separate from our products. It directly informs what we build. The adversarial taxonomy that shapes how Prion classifies inputs came from our own attack research. The vulnerability reasoning that will power Claeth comes from our work on contextual security analysis. Every system we build is grounded in work that we can point to, explain, and defend.
We publish openly because the industry improves when knowledge about vulnerabilities and defenses is shared responsibly. We also publish because accountability requires it — claims about safety that cannot be scrutinized are not claims worth making.