Civilization-scale technology begins as a proof of concept.
Research ByIQ is a venture studio for foundational technologies. We build seed-stage proofs of concept for the hard problems sitting at the heart of trillion-dollar ecosystems — compute, silicon, kernels, manufacturing, sovereign infrastructure — and spin each one out as its own company.
How we work
Three steps, then it leaves.
01
Find the bottleneck
We look for the physical or architectural limit that an entire ecosystem has quietly accepted — a boot time, a fabrication step, a transformer's cost per token.
02
Build the proof
A small team, a working artifact, a measured result. No decks without silicon, no claims without a benchmark someone else can run.
03
Spin it out
Each proof becomes an independent company with its own name, domain and cap table. The studio stays small; the ventures get to be large.
Projects
Nineteen proofs in progress.
01 Inevitable Systems Sage, a language engine targeting 10⁶× fewer joules per token than transformer-based LLMs in both training and inference, and ServoTrim, which carries model confidence into client-side agentic workflows. Prototype
02 Taraya A city-scale technology hub that carries raw materials through to finished electronic goods inside a single industrial footprint. Siting
03 SwiftBoot Minimal Linux kernels for cloud hypervisors: 30 ms cold boot, OCI applications included, nothing else in the image. Benchmarked
04 Forticom Sovereign hosting for Signal's end-to-end encrypted messaging — the same protocol, operated inside a jurisdiction that owns it. Pilot
05 LatencyLab Decomposing high-level algorithms into flow-based silicon designs, so the dataflow of the problem becomes the floorplan of the chip. Research
06 ShaqWave Circuit techniques that take existing process nodes 100× past same-node CMOS on speed and latency. No new fab required. Silicon
07 IOT4-AI Low-latency digital twins past 10⁹ nodes, fused with datasets that make anomaly prediction and operational reporting genuinely reliable. Scaling
08 Datagator Tooling for collections of filesystems holding trillions of file nodes — inventory, movement and policy at a scale where walking a tree is not an option. Alpha
09 RISC-V Supreme Massively parallel RISC-V deployment at data-center scale: many small cores, one coherent operating story. Research
10 Foundation for Humanity A perpetual steward for intellectual property that benefits every stakeholder in the ecosystem — seating animals, plants and natural beauty as first-class parties, with their own representation in investment and licensing decisions. Chartering
11 Keel A small-footprint, security-first HTTP(S) core for Kubernetes and long-lived ops — 5–8 MB images, TLS 1.3-only, and a sidecar that hauls legacy services into modern compliance without a rewrite. Released
12 eBPF Audit A zero-install audit container that probes your own infrastructure for the default kernel capabilities and eBPF exposure that quietly break container isolation. Tooling
13 Unicode Truth Engine Round-trip-safe, locale-aware filename identity across macOS, Windows, Linux and cloud object stores — with homoglyph and TOCTOU defenses built in. Research
14 Hermitic Builds Reproducible builds measured, not hoped for: the Charlton Hermitic Entropy metric counts every entropy source between source and a bit-for-bit binary, so engineering can drive it to zero. Research
15 SwiftNic A Layer-2 cloud NIC for immutable SwiftBoot workloads: bitwise control of IP headers where the hyperscaler's hardware allows, and a public-IP presence for on-prem apps through an ephemeral cloud twin. Design
16 Sovereign S3 S3-compatible storage as a service — guaranteed prices, free egress and an SLA bandwidth floor per TB paid — that also lets you supply your own NAS pools into its global infrastructure. Design
17 SureVoucher Anonymous, cryptographically-signed value tokens — a mint issuing Ed25519-signed bearer tokens with an encrypted balance and an atomic double-spend ledger, so a service can be paid without linking identity to usage. Prototype
18 DAFT Server-less, git-native CI/CD: every state change is a signed git commit, so the audit log is the repository. Runners are your own heterogeneous hardware — cloud x86, ARM Macs, GPU boxes, bare metal — and cloud runners exist only while a job is queued. Prototype
19 Aura An ambient, OS-level layer that captures your life to encrypted memory you own, and prices the attention others spend to reach you — consent enforced at the system layer, not the terms of service. Design