Context is infrastructure.
Memory belongs in the architecture. Work should carry its history forward.
INDEPENDENT INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY
Intelligence.
With intent.
We build systems that remember,
reason and move ideas forward.
FIG. 01 — THE BLACK ICE CORE
01 / THE PREMISE
Something extraordinary
starts with a question.
What happens when intelligence has continuity?
When a system can carry context, take initiative and show its work?
Black Ice Labs is an independent place to explore that possibility. We turn questions into working systems — and publish what the experiments teach us.
Read our thinking ↗02 / A CONNECTED BODY OF WORK
One curiosity.
Many expressions.
RESEARCH · REBUILDING
EVA
Intelligence with a past.
And room to become.
Memory, perception and initiative, brought together in a cognitive architecture designed for continuity.
Inside the architecture ↗THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONTINUITY
An idea.
A memory.
A possibility.
Intelligence becomes more interesting
when the pieces belong together.
ONE CONNECTED ARCHITECTURESCROLL TO BRING IT TOGETHER ↓
03 / HOW WE BUILD
Ambition, with
something to stand on.
Initiative earns trust.
Autonomy needs boundaries, visible decisions and a way to recover.
Evidence moves us.
Working systems, reproducible observations and room to be wrong.
04 / EXPERIMENTS & RESULTS
From inside the lab.
Lab Note · Jul 19, 2026
Architecture of a local ACI: what we learned running an autonomous cognitive system on four GPUs at home
Lab Note · Jul 19, 2026
Validation first: twelve hypotheses, zero survivors
Lab Note · Jul 19, 2026
Hydra: composing specialized models instead of scaling one
05 / THE JOURNAL
Ideas, in public.
Tech Evolution · Sep 2, 2026
We Benchmark Agents at 50%. We Deploy Them at 99%.
Tech Evolution · Aug 26, 2026
The Attack Surface Moved Into the Tool List
When, Not If · Aug 25, 2026
What Alberta Law Actually Requires the Day You Find Out
THE NEXT QUESTION COULD BE YOURS.