Company
The lab that shows its work.
BASED exists because the next knowledge interface should not ask humans to accept synthetic answers on faith.
A model response is useful only when its path can be inspected, its sources checked, its uncertainty seen.
We build the roster, the corpora, the pipelines, and the harnesses that make that inspection routine — for researchers, builders, analysts, and anyone who works like one. Not a chatbot company. A model company, run like a lab.
Operating principles.
Five rules. They decide what ships, what gets retired, and what we refuse to build.
Name the base
You cannot audit what you cannot name. Every model states what it sits on.
Show the path
Every claim carries a return path to source material. Verification must be easier than belief.
Provenance is product
Not a footnote. Not a settings page. The record of where an answer came from is the thing we sell.
Error in the open
The stack does not claim certainty. It builds conditions where error is found faster.
The human stays sovereign
Models assist, search, summarize, and critique. Judgment stays with the person.
Reach the lab.
Network
Distributed research network. Earth local. UTC synchronized.
Access
Work with the lab.
API keys, scoped builds, and finetunes all start the same way: a letter. Tell us what you are building. We read every one.