Photon Datum
Fast as light. Grounded in fact.
We build focused software products with AI that's governed, private and verified, and we open our AI workspace to collaborators who want to work the same way.
Two ways to work with us
For businesses
Build a product with us
Software engineering, product and project management, and leadership support inside the project, from a small team that owns delivery.
Our servicesFor collaborators
Work on our platform
Collaborate in our private, governed AI workspace, with Git hosting today and project management and a knowledge index on the way. One login covers it all.
Signal from the industry
Industry News
GPUs on Kubernetes are bring-your-own-everything, starting with the bill
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Read at The New Stack
Google paid $90,000 for this bug, then waited two months to fix it
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Read at The New Stack
Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
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Read at Ars Technica (Policy)
Ransomware consultant said he would decrypt data, is accused of paying ransoms instead
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Read at Computerworld
Part 1: Make your AI agents boring: the determinism layer
Predictable agents are dependable agents. Designing for repeatable results is what makes AI safe to put in front of customers.
Read at Stack Overflow Blog
Survey Finds AI-Generated Code Increases Debugging and Failure Rates and Creates a Comprehension Gap
AI speeds up writing code but can slow down fixing it. Review and testing matter more with AI, not less.
Read at InfoQ
Eight Malicious npm Packages Downloaded 40,767 Times Deliver Overlord RAT and Stealer
Malicious packages reach ordinary projects through dependencies. Know what your software pulls in, and from where.
Read at The Hacker News
AWS launches open-source AI agent sandbox to prevent YOLO mode disasters
A sandbox limits what an AI agent's mistake can damage. It's the same thinking as approving an agent's plan before it acts.
Read at The Register
How we work
Governed, private, verified
Private by default
Our AI services run on infrastructure we operate. Local models come first; cloud models are used only when a project allows it.
Governed AI
A person approves the plan before work starts. Decisions are recorded, and claims are checked against sources rather than assumed.
Small team, full ownership
The people who scope the work are the people who build and deliver it.
We use what we offer
Our project tracking, AI tooling and working method are what we run our own work on, every day.
Honest status
Everything we describe is labelled Available now, In development or Roadmap.
What's live, what's coming
Member services
- Single sign-onOne login for every member service.Available now
- AI agent workspaceA private chat and agent workspace. Early access.Available now
- Git hostingPrivate repositories on our own Git server.Available now
- Project managementProjects, tasks and decisions, with a full audit trail of every change.In development
- Knowledge IndexIndexed knowledge in three tiers, public, protected and private.Roadmap
- Collaboration toolsFurther shared-work tools for members.Roadmap