Topos

A neolab building agent swarms to formalize problems and verify reasoning beyond mathematics.

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Sounding right is easy. Being right takes verification.

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Mathematics already has machine-checked proofs. Most other fields do not.

We are starting with biology, then taking the same rigor further.

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Why a swarm and not one bigger model?

A bigger model can still be confidently wrong. Agents that formalize, challenge, and check each other give you reasoning you can audit, not reasoning you have to trust.

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How a swarm checks a claim:

1. Propose it
2. Formalize it into a precise statement
3. Critique it, so weak steps get flagged
4. Verify it

No single model is trusted on its own word.

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Plausible: it reads well.
Tested: it passed some checks.
Proven: every step is verified.

Most AI output stops at plausible. Topos builds agent swarms that take reasoning all the way to proven.

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Working on agent swarms or formal verification? We would like to hear from you.

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The goal is not to replace experiments. It is to make the reasoning around them as checkable as a proof.

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Mathematics has proofs. Biology mostly has evidence and argument.

We are starting there.

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That is where a swarm helps. Agents formalize each step, and other agents try to break it. A link that cannot be stated precisely, or cannot survive review, gets flagged.

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A biological claim often rests on a long chain: an observation, a mechanism, an inference, a prediction. Each link is easy to state and hard to check.

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A confident answer and a verified answer can look identical. Only one of them was checked.

Topos builds agent swarms that formalize the problem first, then verify each other's reasoning.

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We are optimizing how agents communicate, formalize problems, and verify each other. If this is your field, we would like to talk.

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From a claim to a checked result. Here is how we think about verification, in four steps.

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4. Verified. What survives is reasoning you can audit, instead of an answer you have to take on faith.

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3. Cross-check. Instead of trusting one model, a swarm of agents proposes, critiques, and verifies each other's reasoning.

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2. Formalize. State the problem precisely enough that a machine can check it. Mathematics has tools like Lean for this. Most fields do not have them yet.

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1. Claim. Most reasoning starts informal: a hypothesis, a chain of steps, a conclusion that feels right.

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Topos is a neolab building agent swarms for formal verification.

A model can sound right. Mathematics asks for a proof.

Our agents formalize problems and check each other's reasoning, starting in biology.

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