Research,built layerby layer.
An independent research and development organization building software, data systems, AI technologies, and experimental tools.
Statement
We work in the space between a paper and a product — where an idea has to run, hold under real load, and stay understandable to the people who depend on it.
§ 01Disciplines
Four fields, one lab.
- 01SoftwareProduction-grade systems built to be read, audited and maintained for years, not demos.
- 02Data systemsStorage, indexing and retrieval that keep structure, ownership and access boundaries intact.
- 03AI technologiesApplied machine intelligence that is scoped, observable and provider-independent.
- 04Experimental toolsSmall instruments and prototypes that test an idea fast and end up shaping the next system.
LR—001 · First product · Live
Layerum
A knowledge platform where AI answers respect real access boundaries. Teams map their organization into a hierarchy, ingest documents, and query them through scoped APIs, a CLI, or any MCP-capable assistant.
- Retrieval
- Hierarchy-scoped
- Models
- Bring your own
- Interfaces
- API · CLI · MCP
- Company12
- Engineering48
- Platform31
- Runbooks17
- Mobile22
- Sales36
- Legal9
$ npm i -g @layerum-team/cli $ layerum login ✓ signed in via browser $ layerum query "how do we rotate keys?" → scope Engineering / Platform
§ 02Method
From question to shipped system.
- 01
Question
Start from a concrete problem that existing tools handle badly.
- 02
Prototype
Build the smallest instrument that can prove or kill the idea.
- 03
Harden
Turn what survives into software with tests, limits and audits.
- 04
Release
Ship it to real users and keep the results honest and public.