Research
Ground Contact.
Every Based AI™ answer is a claim with a path back to its evidence. This method is the standard for every model and finetune we release.
A model response is useful when its reasoning can be inspected, its sources checked and its uncertainty measured. Ground Contact makes that inspection part of every answer.
Our models do not claim certainty. The system is designed so errors surface quickly, claims can be audited and well-supported answers hold up against evidence. When the system cannot show how it reached an answer, the answer is marked provisional.
Four steps.
Claim
Each output is stated as a claim that can be checked.
Source
Each claim links back to the material that supports it.
Test
Outputs are scored against task-specific harnesses before release.
Revise
Errors are identified quickly and corrected openly. Every answer remains open to revision.
What we measure.
We treat truth-seeking as an engineering problem with measurable outcomes. Six metrics apply to every model and finetune before it joins the roster.
Source-trace accuracy
Does each answer cite the material it came from?
Claim-support rate
What share of claims are supported by their cited sources?
Calibration error
Does stated confidence match observed accuracy?
Refusal quality
Does the model decline the right requests for the right reasons?
Factual accuracy
Are stated facts correct against the expert record?
Reasoning consistency
Does the reasoning hold when the question is asked again?
Thesis / 01
Truth, by design.
Truth by design is an engineering constraint. Data selection, training, interfaces and the release process are built so that verifying an answer is easier than accepting it.
Thesis / 02
Epistemic sovereignty.
The person using the model remains the final judge. Every answer shows its sources, its uncertainty and its reasoning, so the user can test it before relying on it.
Etymology
- Base
- Foundation, ground, contact with reality.
- D
- Data, derived signal, distributed verification.
- Based
- Grounded in data. Reasoned from first principles.
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