A frontier mathematics company

We solve physics, AGI, and the nature of reality itself.

One architecture carries all three. The universe is generated by a decentralised consensus process among bounded observers, and that process is the same one that generates thoughts. It closes the open problems of physics, completely, and the same solution turned out to be the key to AGI. We proved it, we run it in simulation, and we build brains on it.

Live field · oscillators with no global clock · move the pointer to disturb them

The mission

Reverse engineer reality. Then build with it.

Most companies pick a problem. We picked the one underneath every other problem: how a universe, a mind and a machine that thinks can all come out of the same mathematics. The answer is written down, checked by machine and open for anyone to inspect. Everything we build follows from it.

Proven
01 · Physics

Simulation theory, implemented.

Observer Patch Holography reverse engineers the hardware and the software that generate our observations and the universe. Twelve-port observer patches keep records, compare them where they overlap and repair disagreement. What they settle into is physics: quantum gravity, the Standard Model and the constants of nature, closed in one architecture.

  • Quantum probability, thermodynamics, 3+1 spacetime and the Standard Model gauge structure come out as consequences
  • 10,900+ theorems checked in Lean with zero admitted proofs
  • Predictions frozen before the data, time-stamped on Bitcoin
Running
02 · AGI

Actual brains, learning by experience.

Cadence builds brains with a continuous stream of thought. One ongoing loop observes, remembers, predicts, acts and learns from what follows. No backward pass, no training switch, no frozen weights. The same brain acts and learns for as long as it runs.

  • Four brains live in the browser, each with its whole brain visible beside the task
  • A Connect Four brain beats an AlphaZero trained with the published recipe in 0.945 and 0.990 of 100 paired games
  • Embodied AGI: a robot learns its job on the job with a small local brain, no datacenter behind it
Horizon
03 · Physical engineering

Hardware that computes like the universe.

If physical law is a repair computation, any medium that relaxes to a fixed point is a computer, and the repair equations are its design spec. That opens engineering that was not imaginable before the mathematics existed.

  • Optical compute: light fields that settle into the answer at light speed, with no clock and no backward pass
  • Materials: collective order designed from the repair mathematics that produces it
  • Propulsion: gravity and inertia as design parameters once their origin is derived
The one result

Reality and thought run on the same process.

Our physics program proves that a stable, shared world emerges when bounded observers compare their records where their views overlap and repair the disagreement locally. That is the solution to physics. Our AGI program builds machines that do exactly that, and reads the state they settle into as a thought. That is the key to AGI. The field at the top of this page runs the idea in miniature: hundreds of oscillators, each coupled only to its neighbours, find one rhythm with no conductor.

  1. Scattered patchesPrivate states, no shared clock
  2. Local recordsEach patch writes down what it sees
  3. OverlapsNeighbours compare where their views meet
  4. RepairWarm links mark disagreement, local moves settle it
  5. One worldShared geometry, one rhythm, a public record
A universe assembling itself out of local agreement. A Cadence brain settles the same way when it thinks. The full argument is in the essay Thinking Is All There Is.
For investors

Why this is the largest bet available.

Every unification in physics became the technology of its century. Maxwell gave us radio, quantum mechanics gave us the transistor, relativity keeps satellites on time. We hold the mathematics that joins them, checked by machine, with the first application running in the browser today.

Physics is solved, and the proof is public.

Physics proposals are usually judged by reputation. Ours is judged by a proof kernel. Anyone can clone the repository, run the checker and confirm every theorem. Nobody else holds a machine-checked route from three axioms to the Standard Model, to spacetime and to the constants.

Evidence · 10,944 machine-checked theorems, zero admitted proofs, predictions frozen on Bitcoin

The same solution is the key to AGI.

The process that generates the universe generates thoughts. Transformers are trained once, frozen and replayed behind an API. Brains learn while they live. Cadence builds brains the second way, small enough to live inside a robot and learn its job on the job. The library is open, which is how a foundation gets adopted. The competent brains and the cortex designs behind them are ours.

Evidence · four brains live in the browser, a Connect Four brain that beats AlphaZero 0.99

Hardware nobody else can design.

Our mathematics states which physical media compute by settling and what their equations are. Optical compute that runs a whole brain as a light field, materials designed from the order they settle into, and eventually propulsion, all follow from results we hold and others do not.

Stage · horizon. The physics is proven, the devices are work in progress

Back the foundation.

The next stage scales the brains onto GPUs and onto light, and turns the physics into devices. If you fund frontier science, this is the conversation to have.

Leadership

Reverse engineering, at every scale.

Chief Hacking Officer

Bernhard Mueller

More than thirty years of offensive security research and reverse engineering, plus work on AI systems. Pragma Research applies the same habit to physics and intelligence: take the system apart until the mechanism is visible, then build with it.

Work with us.

The theory, the proofs, the simulator and the brain library are open. Investors, collaborators and anyone who wants to break a result are welcome.