It looked incredible on the projector.
A polished sales rep dazzles an executive. Every box on the slide gets a checkmark. The contract gets signed before lunch.
PRIVATE · ON-PREM · RAPID PRECISION AI.
PRECISION AI.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN.
RAPID DEPLOYMENT.
We build private AI that runs on the hardware you already own and plugs into the data you already have. No cloud database, no data leaving the building. Most of the real win is an interface your team understands on sight, shipped in weeks.
Private by default Runs on your hardware Interfaces nobody needs training to use Agents you can actually control
How many times has “We're getting new software” actually resulted in a better process and not caused more headaches?
// WHY WE EXIST
Business software is broken. We got tired of waiting for someone to fix it.
We did not start a company because the world needed another AI logo. We started it because almost every piece of business software is a slow-motion disaster, and watching good people fight it every day got old.
The right people were never in the room.
The folks who would actually live in this thing all day? Not invited. So it gets built for the demo, not for the workflow.
Everyone is lost in 30 seconds.
Walls of text on a white screen. Horizontal scrollbars. Tabs inside tabs inside tabs. Zero visual flow that matches how the work actually moves.
And it never quietly gets better.
Just an endless string of headaches and workarounds that cost more time than the tool ever gave back. Renewal auto-bills anyway.
// PRODUCTS
Live products you can open today.
Two systems we run in the open. Each one turns a hard, high-stakes workflow into something a person can read at a glance.
Algo trading · research preview
Calypso Trading
Regime detection and automated execution against live markets. A control room for signals, risk, and orders a human can actually read at a glance.
Open Calypso →Expert system · SBA lending
SBA Oracle
A confidence-gated expert system for SBA lenders. Interviews before it advises, cites its sources, and turns a loan file into a defensible recommendation.
Open SBA Oracle → // DEEP REASONING
Hard questions come in two variants.
So we built a dedicated engine for each one. Same discipline, different problem.
Many variables. No obvious path. → APOLLO
One answer. It has to be right. → CONSENSUS
Apollo Deep Solve
27-step reasoning engineFor the tangled ones: pricing models, migration plans, anything where every variable touches five others. Apollo deconstructs the problem into solvable components, works each one, and validates the chain adversarially before you see a recommendation.
- Parallel reasoning across 4 model architectures
- A visible decision tree you can step into at any node
- Adversarial validation before anything is returned
Consensus
Multi-model deliberationFor the high-stakes ones: the question fits in a sentence, but a wrong answer costs real money. Each round, every model reviews the others and revises its own answer; then one model merges them into a single, succinct answer.
- Your call: 2 to 6 models, 1 to 6 rounds
- Models critique and revise off each other each round
- Every original draft and critique stays visible
// THE LABS
Where we experiment in the open.
The long-form thinking behind what we ship, plus the small, sharp tools still on the bench.
Deep dives & field notes
Research Lab
Long-form analysis on cognitive architectures, LLM mechanics, and the psychology of machine intelligence. The thinking behind everything we ship.
Read the lab →Experiments · on the bench
Prototype Builds
Fast proofs before big bets. Small, sharp tools we build to test an idea, each aimed at killing one specific recurring chore.
See what's cooking → // THE TERMINAL
Every top model. One login. Already built.
Our subscriber platform puts chat, image generation, and 4K video from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google behind one interface. Every plan gets the same top-shelf models, even the $10 one.
Pull the key terms out of this vendor contract and flag anything unusual.
Claude Opus Three clauses stand out: auto-renewal with a 60-day notice window, a 7% annual price uplift, and a data-sharing rider buried on page 12. Want the full summary exported as a doc?
Ask anything. Attach files to ground the answer.
Starter$10
Creator$20
Pro$40
FOUNDINGFounding members lock Creator at $15/mo.
// THE 186 DIFFERENCE
Three things most AI shops cannot, or will not, do.
01 / DESIGN THAT DOES NOT FIGHT YOU
Interfaces so obvious they do not need training.
Most of the biggest wins we deliver need zero structural change. Just an interface built around how the work actually flows. If a new user is hunting for where to click after 30 seconds, the design failed, not the user.
Better UX is the cheapest performance upgrade your operation will ever get.
02 / PRIVATE AND OFFLINE BY DEFAULT
Serious AI on the hardware you already own.
Models got absurdly good and absurdly efficient. Powerful ones now run on laptops, phones, and the servers already humming in your building. Most high-value problems are a predefined process with guardrails; they do not need a trillion-parameter reasoning engine, so we do not rent one. No per-call API meter that grows every month. No PII leaving the building. And deployment gets faster, because fewer security reviews and data agreements stand in the way.
Your data never has to phone home.
03 / AGENTS ON A LEASH YOU CAN SEE
Total, visual control over what every agent can touch.
Every permission an agent has is laid out in a plain-English dashboard. Lock it down or open it up, file by file, all sealed inside a container. Agents work on a mirrored copy of your data; they never touch live production. Production keeps syncing forward, and the agent can never reach back.
Move fast without handing the robots the keys to production.
// THE REAL COMPARISON
Every top model. A fraction of the stack.
Free tiers lock you out of the best models right when you need them. Here, even the $10 plan gets the same top-shelf intelligence as Pro.
Feature
186 Studios ($20/mo)
The power stack ($649.99/mo)
Top-tier reasoning models
Every plan, even $10
Power tier only
Full-quality image generation
✓
✓
4K video generation
Pro plan, $40
Ultra tier only
One interface, one history
✓
✕ three apps
Unused capacity rolls over
✓
✕ use it or lose it
Silently downgraded when servers are busy
Never
Routinely
Price to unlock everything
$40/mo
$649.99/mo
// THE FULL STACK
One team. The entire stack.
We design, build, secure, and ship end to end. Some of it becomes a product. Most of it lives quietly inside our clients' walls.
Custom AI tools & agents
Built for one workflow, not sold to a thousand.
Interface & workflow design
The part everyone else skips.
Private & offline deployment
On-prem, on-device, air-gapped.
Chat & RAG over your data
Answers grounded in your own documents.
Process automation
Predefined steps with real guardrails.
Secure agent infrastructure
Container-sealed, permission-mapped.
Research & prototyping
Fast proofs before big bets.
Dashboards & internal tooling
Visibility your current stack will not give you.
Tell us what your team hates most about its software.
We will take it from there.
Book a 20-minute teardown