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Vördag is Hycomaru’s sovereign AI platform for explicit knowledge, traceable reasoning, scientific modelling and hydrocode simulation, engineered for private, on-premises and air-gapped high-security environments.
Built to keep mission-critical knowledge, models and machine intelligence under your control.
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A sovereign AI platform that makes its knowledge and reasoning skills explicit, structured, and traceable, designed to support experts in their work, critical decision-making and scientific discovery.
Vördag represents knowledge as explicit, connected structures rather than leaving meaning buried in documents or model weights.
Vördag is being developed to reason over explicit knowledge structures, examining relationships, constraints and competing interpretations rather than relying solely on generated answers.
Vördag connects knowledge and reasoning with explicit scientific models, quantities, units and computational relationships, through to hydrocode simulation of high-rate physical events.
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Some knowledge is too important or sensitive to store in the cloud. Vördag is designed for complete local control. Deployable in private, on-premises and air-gapped environments, ensuring data, models and infrastructure remain under your authority.
Data held by a third-party cloud provider is subject to the laws of that provider's jurisdiction, wherever it is physically stored. Vördag removes the third party, so there is no external provider to compel.
Private deployment
Air-gapped ready
No external cloud dependency
Designed for high-security sites
Your data. Your environment. Your control.
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Vördag is more than an interface to a general-purpose model. It is built on a principled architecture for explicit knowledge, reasoning and scientific modelling, informed by Supercortical Theory.
Not just an application, but an evolving cognitive architecture.
Structured, traceable and machine-operable knowledge and skill graphs.
A private UK AI lab focused on real-world capability.
Designed for complex, high-stakes environments.
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Research foundation
Vördag is guided by Supercortical Theory (SCT), the documented research of Hycomaru's founder, Clive Hudson.
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Vördag is progressively moving from information retrieval towards explicit machine knowledge and cognitive-like capabilities.
Converting diverse text-based sources and their images into structured knowledge presented as entities and the events that bind them.
Holding multiple perspectives and candidate truths, not just single answers, for more capable, adaptable and verifiable machine reasoning.
Coupling explicit scientific knowledge with hydrocode solvers for high-rate dynamics and impact.
An SCT research objective: language comprehension that learns and runs on a fraction of the energy demanded by today's large models.
Extending Supercortical Architecture towards machine intelligence that is substantially more capable, adaptable and verifiable than today's AI systems.
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Vördag is being developed as a set of maturing technologies.
The following Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) are indicative of each workstream.
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Vördag is released in cumulative editions. Each edition builds on the one before, and subscribers receive every upgrade as it is released.
Explicit knowledge, traceable reasoning and sovereign deployment, the foundation every edition builds on.
Nearing release
Adds engineering models, quantities and units, turning structured knowledge into calculation and design analysis.
Planned
Adds hydrocode simulation of high-rate dynamics and impact.
Planned
Adds directed investigation, using the full platform to form and test hypotheses about real-world systems.
Planned
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Today, Vördag already exists as a working platform, with core capabilities in place and active development across key areas.
Organise work into workspaces and projects. Familiar drag-and-drop interface.
Locally hosted document conversion processes PDF, Word, Markdown, plain text and other common formats into searchable, structured knowledge.
View extracted images and graphs. Searchable descriptions, manually curated and/or generated by locally-hosted models.
Predefined Units, Quantities, Constants, and Dimensions used by our algebraic solver.
Run Scenarios against validated algebraic graphs with user-defined input variables.
Manual creation and curation of knowledge graphs of entities and events is well advanced. Automatic extraction from text is at proof-of-concept stage.
Configuration graphs support private networks and air-gapped environments.
Physical models and Scenario analysis.
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The name Vördag draws on Norse heritage.
Vör is a Norse goddess associated with awareness, wisdom and inquiry.
Dagr is the Old Norse personification of day.
Together they reflect a system concerned with making knowledge explicit, discoverable and usable.
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Hycomaru
Hycomaru Limited is a UK deep-tech company and research lab. We develop advanced software, knowledge systems and machine reasoning built on Supercortical Architecture, for high-stakes, real-world challenges.
Hycomaru was founded by Clive Hudson, a software engineer with over 40 years' experience, to develop next-generation hydrocode software. His Supercortical Theory research underpins Vördag, and Vördag Hydrocode remains a core destination of the platform roadmap.
From the outset, Clive and Hycomaru's lead investor have shared a long-term aim: to take machine intelligence as far as it can go. We call that destination Supercortical Technology, and Supercortical Architecture is how we engineer towards it.
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Hycomaru welcomes discussions with organisations and individuals who share our interest in sovereign AI, advanced scientific software and machine reasoning.
Secure, sovereign capability for critical missions, including high-rate dynamics simulation.
Collaborative development and real-world application.
Vördag is licensed by subscription, priced per site and per seat. Subscribers receive every edition upgrade as it is released.
Vördag is in pilot use at The Coventry Arsenal, a Hycomaru shareholder, and at Programify, the founder's software company. Further pilots are under discussion with UK organisations, including an electronics engineering firm.
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Let's start a conversation.
We welcome enquiries from government, industry, academia, potential investors, and the media.
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