Kernel Contracts Engagements

How we work with frontier training operators, substrate vendors, and sovereign compute operators on the Kernel Contracts program. For operational-data and LADDER-cleared licensing engagements, see Ashiba Deep Tech.

Diagnostic
Two-week engagement · written attribution report

We deploy the Ashiba verification harness against your training fleet, instrument your workload, emit trace records across specified operations, and deliver a written attribution report. Includes observed divergence events, per-event attribution across implementation version, contract specification, and silicon identity, severity assessment against declared tolerances, recommended remediation, and one hour of Q&A.

Suitable for organizations evaluating whether cross-silicon verification is load-bearing for their workload before committing to a longer engagement.

Retainer
Annual engagement · embedded harness · named technical lead

Ongoing deployment of the harness inside your cluster. Continuous monitoring. 48-hour turnaround on numerical anomalies. Quarterly reviews. Custom contract-class development for your workload patterns. Named technical lead, priority response on production incidents, and participation in a contract-class library tailored to your domain.

Suitable for frontier training operators, sovereign compute operators, and enterprise AI teams running production workloads on heterogeneous silicon.

Substrate conformance
Per-engagement · independent attestation · written report

Third-party conformance validation for silicon vendors. Ashiba produces an independent attestation that your silicon conforms to declared numerical tolerances against reference implementations across a specified workload. Deliverable is a written report your business development team can share with customers.

Suitable for ASIC vendors, photonic compute vendors, analog inference vendors, and specialized accelerator companies who need independent correctness validation for enterprise sales.

All engagements scoped and priced by inquiry. Contact →

Other engagement tracks

Ashiba's operational-data and LADDER-cleared licensing work has its own engagement page: Ashiba Deep Tech. That covers data asset assessment, rights mapping, cleanroom packaging, pilot design, and buyer strategy for operational expertise as AI training data.

Other lab programs — ProbSpec (brownfield industrial interop ontology), Ashiba Alignment (heterogeneous-substrate alignment research), DeepTechTools (operator hub for deep-tech founders) — are described on the lab page. Inquiries on those lines also via cv@ashibaresearch.com.