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Skelf Research is an independent UK AI research lab with 18 public open-source products. Five research pillars. One methodology: every hypothesis is a runnable, testable, peer-reviewable repository. The most-replicable, hardest-to-fake moat in open-source AI research.
The current public output is peer-reviewable software rather than a hosted commercial service. Engagements are evaluated against the lab's published research areas.
Every listed product links to public source and licence evidence. Maturity differs by project, and the portfolio is available for direct technical review.
LLM Cognition & Prompt Theory, Safe & Verifiable Computing, Formal Optimisation & Decision Science, Edge Intelligence & On-Device AI, and Robotics & Autonomous Systems. Each pillar has multiple projects, an article series, and a community of contributors.
Hypotheses as software. Every research question is encoded in a runnable, testable, falsifiable repository. This is the part that compounds — every year we have more artefacts that are public, peer-reviewable, and impossible to replicate without doing the work.
Skelf is a UK company. Several projects explore security, privacy, and auditability, but project features do not constitute organisational certification or regulatory compliance. Assurance is evaluated per engagement.
Rust, Go, Zig, Python, Dart, Lua, JavaScript, TypeScript. The thesis is language-agnostic — we choose the language for falsifiability, not fashion. The system is not a single point of failure.
We target the markets where open-source AI infrastructure has the highest leverage: US, UK, EU, Canada, AUSNZ, Japan, China. Our 5,380 quarterly Google impressions (3 months) come predominantly from these regions; we convert almost none of them. That gap is the opportunity.
| Region | Quarterly impressions | Clicks | Target? | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | 3,256 | 0 | Yes | AI infrastructure, on-device, observability |
| UK | 133 | 3 | Yes | EU AI Act, GDPR, fintech, sovereign AI |
| India | 143 | 1 | No | (deprioritised; non-target region) |
| Canada | 155 | 0 | Yes | Sovereign AI, MILA, Toronto Vector Institute |
| Germany | 105 | 0 | Yes | EU AI Act, Max Planck, formal methods |
| France | 81 | 0 | Yes | INRIA, formal methods, sovereign AI |
| Australia | 59 | 0 | Yes | ANZ fintech, sigc quant trading |
| Japan | 50 | 0 | Yes | Sakana, Preferred Networks, formal verification |
| Netherlands | 48 | 0 | Yes | EU AI Act, A11Y, edge AI |
18 public open-source products, organised by technical domain. Click through for source, licence, documentation, and scope.
promptel · blogus · mpl · route-switch · anouk · direktor
embedcache · memista · polymathy · slorg
zviz · numaperf · gpuemu
savanty · compere · waremax
perishable · l0l1
Researcher · Founder
Independent AI researcher. Designs and implements the projects. Writes the articles. Edits the YAMLs.