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Skelf Research is an independent UK AI research lab. 25 production-grade open-source projects. 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.
No venture backing, no product, no hosted service. The output is peer-reviewable software, not proprietary technology. The lab is funded by the founders and supported by academic and research partnerships.
Every project is a real artefact that someone has used: MIT or GPL-3.0 licensed. No demos, no toy repos. The GitHub stars and forks are real (and modest — we are early).
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.
United Kingdom. EU AI Act, GDPR, SOX, HIPAA — Skelf's projects (mpl, perishable, zviz) are designed for the regulated enterprise from day one. We do not need to retrofit compliance; it is the design constraint.
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 |
25 production-grade open-source projects, organised by pillar. Click through for the deep dive, GitHub stars, license, and comparison with the alternatives.
promptel · blogus · memorg · mpl · mullama · perishable · route-switch · l0l1 · direktor
zviz · numaperf · liath · liath-rs · memista · embedcache · polymathy
savanty · compere · sigc
llamafu · ukkin · anouk · slorg
waremax
Researcher · Founder
Independent AI researcher. Designs and implements the projects. Writes the articles. Edits the YAMLs.