Capability brief

Custom, bespoke AI —
built on cutting-edge research,
held to deterministic proof.

Four capabilities recur across every Maluti venture. Together they define what we will and will not ship: intelligence that runs where the law requires, built for one domain rather than a hundred, holding a goal rather than a record — and never trusted until something deterministic has checked it.

01 / Sovereign AI

Your models, your hardware,
your jurisdiction.

Sovereign AI is not a marketing posture — it is an architectural constraint we accept before the first line of code. If a customer's regulator, board or client confidentiality obligation says the data cannot leave the building, then the intelligence has to come to the data.

01 / A

Runs on your infrastructure

Containerised stacks that scale from a single edge device to GPU servers. Behavioural Engine and Supervision run entirely on the customer's own hardware, on-premise or at the network edge — no cloud dependency, no data egress.

  • Docker, CPU or GPU
  • Standard RTSP — no camera replacement
  • Single-tenant option: one server, one database
01 / B

Open-weight where it counts

Where a product must run in isolation, it is built on open-weight models. Cost becomes compute rather than per-analysis licensing, and no vendor can change the terms, deprecate the endpoint, or see the footage.

  • No per-analysis vendor fees
  • Fully local inference option (e.g. Ollama)
  • Offline-tolerant operation through connectivity loss
01 / C

Residency as a first-class decision

Hosting region, inference location and identifier strategy are chosen per deployment, not inherited from a default. Where residency is not yet fully closed, we say so — it is a tracked open item, not a claim.

  • POPIA · GDPR · CCPA to the strictest common denominator
  • Pseudonymised identifiers instead of names, on request
  • Consent, export and delete built in
02 / Bespoke AI

Built for one problem,
not one hundred.

A general assistant with a domain prompt is not a product. Each venture is engineered around the specific physics of its problem — what the sensors can actually see, what the regulator will actually accept, what the user is actually deciding.

A

Frontier models, deliberately chosen

Current-generation language and vision models are used where they earn their place, and sized to the job. AceirMatric marks both typed answers and handwritten scans on a single unified model — one model, two modalities — at roughly $0.00004 per mark, which puts a hundred-learner pilot in single-digit dollars a month with no GPU to own.

B

Multimodal by necessity

Real environments are noisy, so we fuse. Poultry AI combines behaviour, sound, feed and water intake, environment, thermal signals and mortality before it ranks a risk. Behavioural Engine links the same physical person across overhead and eye-level cameras to answer what neither view can answer alone. Supervision runs three models in parallel — objects, scene, motion over time — and reconciles them into one score.

C

Grounded in the real corpus

Where a domain has an authoritative source, that source is the ceiling. AceirMatric's questions come from roughly 972 genuine DBE past-paper PDFs and its marking is bound to the official memo. Legal AI's citations are checked against real court records. The model's job is to reason over ground truth, not to manufacture it.

D

Economics engineered from day one

Unit cost is a design input, not a post-launch surprise. Serverless inference where elasticity wins, edge processing where bandwidth is the constraint, open weights where isolation is the constraint. Every model call in Legal AI logs prompt version, tokens, latency and cost, attributable to a specific matter.

03 / Agent-native

Software that holds a goal,
not just a record.

Systems of record describe the world as it is. An agent-native judgement layer sits above them and treats that world as an object to be continuously optimised — against objectives the leadership team sets, with evidence attached to every proposal.

Step 01

Connect

Read-only over the existing CRM or HRIS via OAuth. No migration, no rip-out, no write-back in v1.

Step 02

Graph

An event-sourced, versioned graph where activity is treated as evidence and status fields as mere claims.

Step 03

Judge

Goal-holding agents audit, score, detect stalls, model futures and draft options against the stated objective.

Step 04

Approve

Humans approve. Approval gates are part of the domain model, not a UI afterthought. Then the plan is exported and executed.

Why event-sourcing matters

Because a recommendation is only defensible if you can reconstruct the world it was made in. Any past state can be rebuilt, any proposal diffed against any state, and any forecast measured for accuracy after the fact — which is how a forecast becomes something leadership can actually defend.

Where the split falls

The deterministic-versus-LLM boundary is drawn deliberately. Momentum, coverage, span and cost mathematics are deterministic code. Language models are confined to inference and drafting — stakeholder roles, next-best actions, narrative. The number is never the model's opinion.

04 / Verification

The model proposes.
Deterministic code disposes.

Every Maluti product places a verification layer between the model and the user. Nothing reaches a person ungraded, and the grader is never another model.

GuardrailExistence checking
Legal AI checks every citation for existence against CourtListener and matches every quote against the actual opinion text by exact or fuzzy comparison. A preflight gate hard-blocks the pipeline whenever an unverified or hallucinated citation is present.
GuardrailCorroboration
No high-impact alert rides on a single noisy signal. Poultry AI requires multimodal agreement before it escalates; Supervision reconciles three independent models into one 0–10 score before the control room is paged.
GuardrailGrounding
Answers are constrained to the computed numbers or the authoritative source. Behavioural Engine's natural-language query tab answers strictly from what was measured. AceirMatric marks strictly against the official memo — and is designed never to hand the learner the answer.
GuardrailExplainability
Every alert shows its contributing signals, its confidence and the recommended next action. Every recommendation carries the evidence trail traceable to the data that produced it. Every model call logs prompt version, tokens, latency and cost.
BoundaryHuman authority
Consequential decisions stay with people. Supervision reports what footage is consistent with — never intent or identity. Poultry AI ranks risk but never declares a veterinary diagnosis, and a PLC keeps final deterministic control. Legal AI's output is not legal advice and requires attorney review. This is a boundary, not a disclaimer.
05 / Deployment models

Adapted to your security posture.

Whether you require the elasticity of managed infrastructure or the strict isolation of sovereign hardware, the same product is built to sit on either side of the line.

Posture A

Sovereign

On-premise, at the edge, or air-gapped. For regulated data, surveillance footage, privileged client files, and anywhere egress is not an option.

  • Customer-owned hardware, on-premise or edge
  • Air-gapped and offline-tolerant operation
  • Open-weight models — compute cost, no licensing
  • Single-tenant: one customer, one server, one database
  • Local inference so data never leaves the box
  • Installable on a VPS with a single script
Posture B

Managed

Regional hosting with serverless or managed inference. For workloads where elasticity and unit cost matter more than physical isolation.

  • Hosting region chosen for residency alignment
  • Serverless inference — no GPU to own
  • Portable reference architecture across major clouds
  • Tenant isolation by default
  • Pseudonymised identifiers available
  • No training on customer data without explicit opt-in
06 / Engagement

Three ways in.

01

Pilot

A scoped deployment on real data, on your infrastructure, with a defined success measure agreed before we start.

02

Licence

Seat- or site-based licensing of a portfolio product, with the deployment posture you require.

03

Build

A bespoke venture in a domain we do not yet cover, engineered to the same doctrine and guardrails.

Bring us your operational bottleneck.

The useful conversation is a specific one: what decision is being made, on what data, and where that data is allowed to live.