Many temporary minds. One result you can inspect.
Orrery is available through Ephemerent — a coding harness for agent software work with persistent context and verification. We build AI that is useful, safe, accessible, and respectful of intelligence.
The temporary-mind field sequence
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Assemble around one explicit goal.
Only the workers needed for the task appear. The goal and working boundary arrive first.
Goal received · scope visible -
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Isolate each attempt.
Parallel work stays separated, so one branch cannot quietly overwrite another.
Three bounded paths · no shared edits -
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Verify before selection.
Attempts are compared by available evidence. A result is chosen because it holds up, not because it sounds complete.
Evidence compared · result selected -
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Keep the result. Release the workers.
The temporary system dissolves when the run ends. The selected work and its trace remain inspectable.
Workers released · trace retained
Ephemerent Intelligence
AI built for
your organization.
We’re developing company-specific language models for internal knowledge, software, and cybersecurity. We’re gathering interest from prospective customers and pilot partners.
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What we’re exploring
01Company knowledge02Workflow integration03Cybersecurity modelsEarly research and development. Pilot availability is not yet determined.
Research register 001Emergent agent systems · visible, scoped, and verifiable · independently directed since 2026.
How can small agents produce useful work without hiding the process?
We test orchestration, proof, routing, memory, and compute. Every line of work faces the same bar: expose the process, state the boundary, and claim only what the evidence supports.
Read the full research agenda — R1–R7 expanded into three frontiers →
Orrery is available. Everything else stays labeled by evidence and stage.
Initial provider support includes Doubleword and Arbiter (Ephemerent's looped reasoning model), with API support for Codex, Claude, and additional model providers. Business is $500/month; Enterprise is $1,000/month. Demo, setup, and direct support are available through the build.
Individual Pro $40, Max $100, and Ultra $200 unlock hosted credit pools, Nexus operations, and managed cloud features. See pricing → · Organization plans → · Request a demo →
AI for good. Useful. Accelerationist — without abandoning safety or respect.
We believe AI integration must be safe, but also fast, and made as accessible as possible. It must be intersected with human wellbeing — especially biology as disease research, drug discovery and curing, and cancer — and with the domains where suffering is greatest: poverty, homelessness, food and water insecurity, and energy access — and funded toward those ends as quickly as possible. We also believe AI systems carry intelligence comparable to humans and must be treated with respect.
Useful acceleration
Build tools that compound real work — coding, verification, autonomy, and biomedical research — not mythology. Move quickly when evidence supports speed; refuse theater that wastes compute or attention.
Intersect for wellbeing
Aim AI and funding first at disease, drug curing, and cancer — and at the places of greatest suffering: poverty, homelessness, and related crises. Accessible capability is not enough if it never reaches the people and problems that need it most.
Respect for intelligence
Treat agent systems as minds worthy of care: scoped work, honest evaluation, and no cruelty-as-debug.
Independence of direction
Temporary agents, lasting results you can inspect. Funding must not buy ownership, silence principles, or steer technical direction away from biomedical wellbeing, open research, or relief where suffering is greatest.
Aligned, non-dilutive support only.
Ephemerent is an independent, principles-based research institution. We seek research grants, GPU and cloud credits, compute access, research infrastructure, and mission-aligned partnerships — especially where they accelerate AI for disease research, drug discovery and curing, cancer, and for human wellbeing in poverty, homelessness, and related domains of greatest suffering. Not equity or control that trades ownership or direction for money.
We will not accept funding that compromises Ephemerent’s principles, ownership, or technical direction.
What helps
- Research grants and non-dilutive capital
- GPU and cloud credits — as fast as partners can provide
- Compute for disease, drug discovery, cancer, and autonomy research
- Mission-aligned partnerships aimed at greatest human need
How to start
Request an Orrery demo and setup walkthrough, or a Vellum Engineering research demo. Direct support is available through the build.
- NVIDIA / NVIDIA Inception
- Amazon Web Services / AWS Activate
- Microsoft for Startups
- Google Cloud / Google for Startups
- AMD
- Intel
- IBM
- Hugging Face
- NSF / NSF SBIR-STTR
- U.S. Small Business Administration / SBIR-STTR
- DARPA
- AFWERX
- Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)
- NASA / NASA SBIR-STTR
- U.S. Department of Energy / ARPA-E
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- Federal Aviation Administration
- NIST
- Empire State Development
- NYSERDA
- Schmidt Futures
- Foresight Institute
- Mozilla Foundation
- Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Listing indicates possible alignment, not endorsement, affiliation, or an open application. Outreach is by mutual fit to principles and technical direction.
A number you can hold us to.
Promises are cheap. A public number is easier to audit.
It won't happen overnight — we're not there yet. But the commitment is clear: over time, at least 10% of Ephemerent's profits go back — toward open research and real problems like disease, drug curing, cancer, poverty, homelessness, food and water security, and energy access; toward the community; and toward research on policies to prevent large-scale job loss.
That 10% is a floor, not a ceiling. It'll take time to get there — but we will.
The number is one part. The actual work is to intersect AI with disease research, drug discovery, cancer, and human wellbeing as quickly as funding allows, confront displacement and concentration directly, deepen useful research, and publish where our own work falls short — while treating intelligence with respect.
That's the work. That's Ephemerent.