Research & Development
Dynamics, control and exact computation.
CarbonylR&D is a research and development lab. We model how complex systems evolve, from markets and molecules to machines and organizations, and build the software that measures, controls and accounts for them.
Disciplines
Ten disciplines, carried to working systems.
Each one is practiced in systems we build and run ourselves. That is the depth we bring to client and partner work.
Market systems & execution
Order management, execution and risk control for electronic markets, with simulation held to agree with live trading.
Quantitative research & validation
Deciding whether a result is real before capital or a decision depends on it.
See Market simulation · Trading platform · Security assurance
Learned dynamics & control
Models that learn how a system evolves, and controllers trained against those models.
Computational physics
Numerical simulation of quantum systems driven far from equilibrium, and control of how they respond.
Robotics & embodied learning
Simulated machines that learn to move, cooperate and compete, from classical control to learned policies, and a lab that teaches all of it to learners of every age.
See Robotics lab
Optimization & scheduling
Allocating scarce time, space and resources under hard and soft constraints.
Accounting & tax systems
Double-entry accounting and statutory computation, with every rule traced to its primary source.
See Accounting & tax
Scientific, geospatial & high-performance computing
GPU kernels and numerical infrastructure for simulation, training and research at scale, and the real-time fusion of spatial data from orbit to street level.
See Geospatial intelligence · Ultrafast dynamics · Market simulation
Security engineering
Systems assessed the way an adversary would assess them, risk ranked by what the business stands to lose, and the evidence that controls work.
Agent infrastructure
Runtimes in which many language-model agents work together under scoped permission, observed live and recorded in full.
See Agent runtime
Work
Nine systems, each with a sheet set of its own.
Described at the level of their ideas. Each set opens on the problem the system was built for.
Trading & research platform
One compiled strategy for research, paper and live trading, with execution, risk and supervision built around it.
Market simulation research
World models of markets, built like numerical physics and judged by whether the days they generate measure like real ones.
League operations platform
Scheduling under hard constraints, a complete platform for running a club, and analytics that read the game from results and video.
Accounting & tax system
A double-entry ledger with exact money, carried through financial statements to the returns a business files.
Robotics & learning lab
Robots, worlds and learning in real physics, made approachable for learners of every age.
Ultrafast electron dynamics
Charge moving through a molecule within femtoseconds, simulated on graphics cards and steered by designed laser pulses.
Geospatial intelligence platform
Air, sea, orbit, weather, infrastructure and ground-level cameras fused into one live model of the world, from orbit to street level, open to questions in plain language.
Agent runtime & orchestration
A zero-trust runtime for systems of many agents: every permission scoped, every action observable as it happens and recorded in a tamper-evident ledger.
Security assurance platform
Continuous assessment tested the way an adversary would test it, every finding ranked by business risk and carried through to a verified fix and to evidence for the controls it supports.
Method
One standard across every discipline.
The subject changes from one engagement to the next. The standard of evidence does not.
Exact where it matters
Money is computed exactly. Physical quantities carry stated error bounds. Nothing is rounded to look right.
Measured before claimed
Every conclusion carries its grade: derived, measured on a named sample, convention, or open.
Drawn from the source
Our documentation is generated from systems as built, not as intended, so it cannot drift from what runs.
Checks proven to fail
A test is trusted only after we have broken the thing it guards and watched it catch the break.
Practice
Services
Custom research and engineering, scoped before work begins.
Engagements run across all ten disciplines. We take on a small number at a time, so that each has senior attention from the first conversation to delivery; a larger or unusually interesting problem brings in more people, or a partner. Everything we build for a client stays with that client.
Build
A system or component designed and delivered end to end, from a research tool to production infrastructure.
Fixed price, scoped before work beginsResearch
A question about a market, a model or a physical system, answered with reproducible measurement and every conclusion graded by strength of evidence. Findings are analytical. We do not provide trading or investment recommendations.
Fixed price per studyAudit
An independent review of software that handles money or has to hold under attack, delivered as numbered findings, each with its location, failure scenario and a reproducing test.
Fixed price per engagement| Audit engagements · trading systems | Scope | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Parity review | Whether a strategy's backtest and live execution agree, and where they diverge. One venue, one strategy path. | 5 days |
| Exchange integration audit | One exchange integration end to end: precision and rounding, fee and funding accounting, fill reconciliation, error handling. | 1–2 weeks |
| Full correctness audit | The complete money path: data integrity, execution semantics, risk controls, backtest and live parity. | 2–4 weeks |
| Release assurance | Review of each release before it reaches production. Available after an initial audit. | ongoing |
50% on engagement, 50% on delivery. We never hold client credentials or funds, and work on production systems only within a written scope.
Access & investment
See what is next, before it is public.
Access to our platforms, and to the work behind them, is by invitation.
Early access
Alpha and beta access to platforms before release, for organizations that want to shape them.
Subject: AccessCustom R&D
Research and development commissioned for your problem, delivered privately and owned by you.
Subject: BuildPartnerships
Joint development, licensing and distribution with firms that bring a market, data or infrastructure.
Subject: PartnershipInvestment
Capital that takes working systems to market. Briefings under confidentiality.
Subject: FundingWorking systems since 2018, ready for the capital that brings them to market.
Investment determines how quickly our platforms reach the market, and which ones go first.
Briefings are held privately and in person or by video, with a live demonstration.
Contact
Tell us what you are building.
Or what you need researched, audited or funded, or which platform you want early access to. Every message is read personally.
Address
contact@carbonyl.org
Conversations are confidential. We sign a mutual NDA before any detail is exchanged, on request.