Research & engineering

Research that ships. Engineering that holds.

Every area starts with a problem a customer hit inside their perimeter, and ends as engineering that runs there: in a product, under audit. We publish what we learn along the way.

200,000+

Open security models

downloads of our open security models

SecurityLLM is cited in the Foundation-sec-8B technical report by Cisco Foundation AI and Yale, and used as a security-specialist baseline in university research.

Peer-reviewed
Accepted at a NeurIPS 2026 workshop and CIKM 2026
Open
Models, data and code, in public since 2023
Cited
By Cisco Foundation AI, Yale and university research
Shipped
Every research area runs in a product

The journey

From one open model to a research engine.

Since December 2023, in public.

  1. Dec 2023

    First open security model

    Mamba-2.8B-CyberSec, a state-space model for security, released on Hugging Face.

  2. Jan 2024

    ZySec-7B, SecurityLLM

    A DPO-tuned security model across 30+ domains, since downloaded nearly 200,000 times.

  3. Mar 2024

    Built for air-gapped hardware

    AWQ and GGUF builds so the model runs offline, inside the perimeter.

  4. May 2024

    Named in the literature

    Included in a comprehensive review of generative AI in cybersecurity.

  5. Oct 2024

    Open safety data

    The harmful_behaviors dataset, for testing refusal and misuse.

  6. Q1 2025

    Open data for retrieval

    Contextual RAG datasets, crime stories, and open document models for constrained hardware.

  7. Apr 2025

    Cited by Cisco

    Cisco Foundation AI and Yale University cite SecurityLLM in the Foundation-sec-8B technical report.

  8. Jul 2025

    Best Emerging AI Company

    Named Best Emerging AI Company of the Year 2025 at the Indian Business Excellence Awards.

  9. Oct 2025

    A baseline for others

    Used as a security-specialist model in POLAR, Binghamton University's threat-prioritisation research.

  10. Jul 2026

    RelataDB goes open source

    An AI-native knowledge engine: agent memory, graph and hybrid search, with SDKs in Python, TypeScript and Go.

  11. Sep 2026

    Accepted at NeurIPS

    AgentInSight, signed tool manifests and declared-versus-deployed audit, accepted as a NeurIPS 2026 workshop poster.

  12. Nov 2026

    CIKM 2026, Rome

    HyperMind: claim resolution and reputation tracking for trustworthy multi-agent answers.

  13. Now

    Saqr, and what comes next

    A 27.8B security model for Infinia Technologies, 200,000+ downloads across our open models, and SHABD in progress.

Research areas

Six real problems. Researched, then engineered.

RAG quality

Knowledge Reliability Systems

Retrieval is easy to demo and hard to trust. We study when an answer can be relied on: which source supports it, how confident the system should be, and who was right when sources or agents disagree.

  1. The problem

    Answers from retrieval looked right, but were not always traceable to a source.

  2. What we researched

    ARAI, and HyperMind's claim resolution and reputation tracking (CIKM 2026).

  3. What we engineered

    Citations to file, page and passage, and agents weighted by how often they were right.

  4. Where it runs

    AutonousAutonous IntOps

Our work

  • ARAIOur retrieval-reliability engine, embedded in Autonous and Autonous IntOps.
  • HyperMindClaim resolution and reputation tracking for multi-agent answers. CIKM 2026.
  • Contextual RAG datasets ↗Open rewriter and relations datasets for retrieval research, plus RAG markdown documents.

Publications

Peer review is part of the product.

  1. AcceptedCIKM 2026 · Rome

    HyperMind: Claim Resolution and Reputation Tracking for Trustworthy Multi-Agent LLM Aggregation

    S. Semwal, R. Sharma, V. Siddi, S. S. Mahapatra

    Lowest Brier score on all four LLMs tested, at $0.005 per 100 questions. Every resolved claim leaves an auditable chain of custody.

    Research area

  2. AcceptedNeurIPS 2026 Workshop AIWILD · Poster

    AgentInSight

    S. Semwal, L. Senaratne, N. PJ, P. Chaskar, V. Siddi

    Enforces agent tool calls against signed manifests. In a live case study it found a server declared for one tool exposing 59.

    Research area

  3. AcceptedAICTA 2026

    CyberPod: Entity Recognition and Multi-hop Criminal Network Intelligence for Investigative Analysis

    S. Semwal, A. S, V. Siddi, R. Sharma

    F1 0.87 on AttackDB corpora, a 6 to 11 point gain over off-the-shelf baselines, with 412 ms for 3-hop reasoning in production.

    Research area

  4. Open modelHugging Face · 2024

    ZySec-7B (SecurityLLM): a DPO-tuned security model across 30+ domains ↗

    ZySec AI

    Nearly 200,000 downloads, with community Spaces and quantized builds. Cited in the Foundation-sec-8B technical report by Cisco Foundation AI and Yale.

    Research area

  5. Working paper2026

    Receipts, Not Verdicts: Judge-Free Verification for Multi-Agent LLM Systems

    V. Siddi, S. Semwal, S. P. Pullabhotla

    Re-derivable receipts instead of LLM judges. Reputation weighting improved Brier score by 5.4 to 12.5% across eight LLMs.

    Research area

  6. In progress2026

    SHABD: Source-History-Anchored Bias Detection in Media

    V. Siddi

    Detecting systematic editorial framing by comparing how a source covers comparable subjects over time.

    Research area

Research partnerships

Work with our research team.

We collaborate with IIT Madras and welcome universities, labs and public-sector teams on the open problems in these six areas.

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