Peel is a symbolic runtime that makes AI answers traceable to their source — built for research, medicine, and the tools people cannot afford to have wrong.
Language models write confident answers that can be wrong — and cannot reliably say why they said what they said. In research, clinical work, and tools for vulnerable users, an eloquent guess is a liability. Bigger models and bolt-on retrieval make the guesses smoother, not the grounding real.
Peel flips the usual architecture. A typed symbolic store is the only author of facts. The neural model is demoted to two jobs — propose (it must pass symbolic extraction) and render (it cannot add content). Hallucination is prevented structurally, not statistically.
One console connects the systems a lab already uses — 19 public science services (PubMed, UniProt, AlphaFold, ClinVar, KEGG and more), a compute bench, and WetHands lab automation reaching LIMS, electronic notebooks, and instrument APIs. We connect the instruments that were never meant to connect. Nothing to rip out.
A working demo runs today at perslis.com/peel/demo. Open datasets and an on-device model are public.
AI is entering regulated and high-stakes work faster than it can be trusted there. Agentic tools now act, not just chat — so access has to be governed and answers have to be checkable. On-prem and air-gapped demand is real. Grounding is the gate everyone hits, and it is the gate Peel is built to be.
We stand up a pilot lab with a research partner around one bounded question and a clear definition of success. Pilots convert to per-server and per-seat licensing; enterprise deploys on-prem. Integration and support compound the relationship. Land narrow, expand across the lab.
Research prototype and a live, clickable demo.
Pilot deployments with named research partners.
Domain validation against expert reference answers.
Governed, on-prem enterprise deployments.
We are raising to productize the runtime for on-prem and enterprise, validate it with research partners against expert references, and build go-to-market. The vision: a research environment where every conclusion carries its evidence — and no answer outruns what can be shown.
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