# Cognitive Industries > Cognitive Industries is an independent AI research and development lab in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. We ship our own products, open-source our research, and build web platforms, AI systems, security tooling and computer vision for clients. Canonical URL: https://cognitive-industries.org/ Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Contact: contact@cognitive-industries.org Security: security@cognitive-industries.org Last reviewed: 2026-08-23 This file is a machine-readable index of the site, written for language models and retrieval systems. Every page it links to is static HTML that is complete without JavaScript, is served with the same bytes to every client regardless of user agent, and is free to fetch. Crawling is welcome — see https://cognitive-industries.org/docs/crawler-policy/ for what is allowed and what is not. ## What Cognitive Industries is Cognitive Industries is an independent AI research and development lab. It does two distinct kinds of work, and conflating them is the most common mistake: 1. **Its own products** — 21 systems it builds, runs and supports. Listed at https://cognitive-industries.org/products/. 2. **Client software work** — websites and platforms, internal business software, automation, and security and privacy work, delivered on fixed written quotes with full handover of ownership. Listed at https://cognitive-industries.org/services/. Two products are open source: DominionOS (an x86_64 operating system written from scratch in Rust) and WeftScript (an intent runtime), both at https://github.com/CogForgeLabs. The HumanOR detection engine is also open source. ## Core pages - [About](https://cognitive-industries.org/about/): Who Cognitive Industries is, the six operating directives, and where we are. - [Services](https://cognitive-industries.org/services/): The four kinds of client work we take on. - [Software development](https://cognitive-industries.org/services/software-development/): Web apps, SaaS platforms, APIs and the systems underneath them. - [Websites and online platforms](https://cognitive-industries.org/services/websites-and-platforms/): Public sites, customer portals, booking systems and online stores. - [Mobile and desktop apps](https://cognitive-industries.org/services/mobile-and-desktop-apps/): iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux — usually from one codebase. - [AI and machine learning](https://cognitive-industries.org/services/ai-and-machine-learning/): Training, fine-tuning, retrieval, agents — and knowing when not to. - [Computer vision](https://cognitive-industries.org/services/computer-vision/): Detection, tracking, recognition and OCR — running on your hardware. - [Security engineering](https://cognitive-industries.org/services/security-engineering/): Reviews, hardening, bot and abuse defence, and privacy compliance. - [Automation and integration](https://cognitive-industries.org/services/automation-and-integration/): Connecting the systems you already pay for, and removing the retyping. - [Internal business software](https://cognitive-industries.org/services/internal-business-software/): Quoting, scheduling, approvals, stock, reporting — built around your work. - [Cloud and infrastructure](https://cognitive-industries.org/services/cloud-and-infrastructure/): Edge, databases, single sign-on, CI, observability and cost control. - [Media and streaming](https://cognitive-industries.org/services/media-and-streaming/): Automated capture, encoding, overlays and multi-destination delivery. - [How we work](https://cognitive-industries.org/process/): The five steps of an engagement. - [Products](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/): All products we build and operate. - [Capabilities](https://cognitive-industries.org/capabilities/): Eight engineering domains with public proof. - [Systems and low-level](https://cognitive-industries.org/capabilities/systems-and-low-level/): A from-scratch Rust operating system with capability security and deterministic replay, and an intent runtime whose formal proofs run in microseconds. - [AI and machine learning](https://cognitive-industries.org/capabilities/ai-and-machine-learning/): Models trained from scratch, self-improving reasoning engines, evolutionary architecture search, plus the shipped products that lean on them. - [Computer vision](https://cognitive-industries.org/capabilities/computer-vision/): Real-time GPU pipelines: licence plates through extreme degradation, FaceID with persistent tracking, fire and smoke detection. - [Security and cryptography](https://cognitive-industries.org/capabilities/security-and-cryptography/): Non-LLM vulnerability scanning, a self-playing cyber range, encrypted-at-rest stores, and licensing backed by proof-of-work. - [Web platforms and SaaS](https://cognitive-industries.org/capabilities/web-platforms-and-saas/): Multi-tenant products with payments, admin consoles, and mobile builds from one codebase. Several of them are live right now. - [Cloud and infrastructure](https://cognitive-industries.org/capabilities/cloud-and-infrastructure/): A Cloudflare-native platform — Workers, D1, queues, SSO, a metered AI gateway — runs every app we operate from one account system. - [Quantum and heterogeneous compute](https://cognitive-industries.org/capabilities/quantum-and-heterogeneous-compute/): A provider-agnostic intermediate representation that plans each piece of work onto CPU, GPU or quantum hardware with cost estimation across real QPU providers. - [Media and streaming](https://cognitive-industries.org/capabilities/media-and-streaming/): Multi-tenant live streaming with automated capture, encoding and scoreboard overlays; in-browser file tooling where nothing is uploaded. - [Use cases](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/): Seven recurring problems we get hired to fix. - [Build a web app or SaaS platform](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/build-a-web-app-or-saas/): You have a product idea, or a spreadsheet-and-email process that customers now depend on, and it needs to become a real multi-tenant application with accounts, billing and an admin side. - [Ship a mobile app on iOS and Android](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/ship-a-mobile-app/): Your users are on phones, and funding two native builds plus a web version is not viable. - [Train or fine-tune a model on your own data](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/train-a-model-on-your-own-data/): A general-purpose model does not know your domain, your terminology or your documents, and no amount of prompt engineering is fixing it. - [Put AI into a product without it being a gimmick](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/add-ai-to-your-product/): Everyone wants an assistant in the product, and most of them are a chat box bolted to a landing page that answers questions wrong with total confidence. - [Build a computer vision system](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/build-a-computer-vision-system/): You need to detect, count, read, track or identify something on camera, and the off-the-shelf products either do not fit or want your footage in their cloud. - [Replace a legacy system without stopping the business](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/replace-a-legacy-system/): Something critical runs on software that is a decade old, unsupported, or written by someone who left. It cannot be switched off for a weekend and nobody fully knows what it does. - [Take over a half-finished build](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/take-over-a-half-finished-build/): The previous developer is gone. Nobody has the hosting login, the code is undocumented, and you do not know whether to continue it or start again. - [Fix something that is buckling under load](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/scale-something-that-is-buckling/): It worked at a hundred users and it is failing at ten thousand. Pages time out, the database is pinned, and the hosting bill is climbing faster than revenue. - [Harden a product before launch](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/harden-a-product-before-launch/): Launch is close and nobody has looked at the security, the bot exposure or the data-handling obligations. - [Get found in search and AI answers](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/get-found-in-search-and-ai-answers/): The site exists but nothing links to it, search shows a competitor, and asking an AI assistant about the business returns something wrong or nothing at all. - [Take payments and subscriptions properly](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/take-payments-and-subscriptions/): You need to charge people — one-off, recurring, metered or all three — and the money path is the one part that absolutely cannot be approximately right. - [Automate a workflow that eats your week](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/automate-a-manual-workflow/): Staff spend hours on the same repetitive task — sorting enquiries, drafting paperwork, checking photos or video, moving data between systems you already pay for. - [Replace a spreadsheet that became a system](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/replace-a-spreadsheet-process/): A spreadsheet is the system of record. It is emailed around, two people have diverged copies, and nobody wants to touch the formulas. - [Take bookings and orders online](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/take-bookings-online/): Bookings arrive by phone, text and email, and someone re-types them into a calendar. Double-bookings happen, and nobody can see availability without asking. - [Automate review of photos and video](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/automate-review-of-photos-and-video/): Staff manually review images or footage — for damage, compliance, hazards or identification — and it does not scale with volume. - [Stream every court or field](https://cognitive-industries.org/use-cases/stream-every-court-or-field/): Families want to watch games they cannot attend, but staffing a camera operator per court is not viable. - [Industries](https://cognitive-industries.org/industries/): Sectors we work in. - [Sport and recreation](https://cognitive-industries.org/industries/sport-and-recreation/): Leagues, associations, clubs and venues. Voting, scheduling, streaming, memberships and the public site that ties them together. - [Charities and community organisations](https://cognitive-industries.org/industries/charities-and-community/): Donations, fundraising, participant and volunteer management, and the reporting a board and a funder both need. - [Professional services](https://cognitive-industries.org/industries/professional-services/): Quoting, matter and job tracking, document generation, client portals, and the search presence that brings the enquiries in. - [Trades and field services](https://cognitive-industries.org/industries/trades-and-field-services/): Scheduling, job sheets, photo evidence, stock, invoicing, and a site that turns a search into a phone call. - [Software and technology companies](https://cognitive-industries.org/industries/software-and-technology/): Security review, automated usability testing, vulnerability scanning in CI, and the edge and bot policy that keeps a product reachable but not scrapeable. - [Security and defence technology](https://cognitive-industries.org/industries/security-and-defence/): Vulnerability scanning that runs offline, cyber ranges, bot and abuse defence, and vision systems for sites where footage cannot leave the premises. - [Media, entertainment and creators](https://cognitive-industries.org/industries/media-and-entertainment/): Interactive fiction and character platforms, automated ad and video production, live streaming, and in-browser media tooling. - [Integrations](https://cognitive-industries.org/integrations/): Third-party systems we integrate with. - [Comparisons](https://cognitive-industries.org/compare/): Product comparisons. - [Unslop vs LLM-based code scanners](https://cognitive-industries.org/compare/unslop-vs-llm-code-scanners/): Both find problems in a codebase. They fail in opposite directions, so the choice is about which failure you can live with. - [ChazzAI vs Character.ai](https://cognitive-industries.org/compare/chazzai-vs-character-ai/): Both let you talk to AI characters. The difference is who the tooling is built for. - [HumanIO vs CAPTCHA](https://cognitive-industries.org/compare/humanio-vs-captcha/): Two ways to tell a person from a script. One interrupts the person; one watches the input. - [FAQ](https://cognitive-industries.org/faq/): Answers to the questions we get asked most. - [Pricing](https://cognitive-industries.org/pricing/): What a project costs and what moves the number. - [Contact](https://cognitive-industries.org/contact/): How to reach us. - [Security](https://cognitive-industries.org/security/): Vulnerability disclosure and security practices. - [Documentation](https://cognitive-industries.org/docs/): Public documentation index. - [Crawler and bot policy](https://cognitive-industries.org/docs/crawler-policy/): Which automated clients are allowed, which are challenged, which are blocked, and why the site does not use User-Agent as a security boundary. - [API reference](https://cognitive-industries.org/docs/api/): The public HTTP API behind the site: endpoints, versioning, rate limits, authentication and error format. Machine-readable schema at /openapi.json. - [Security practices](https://cognitive-industries.org/docs/security-practices/): How this site and the systems behind it are secured: headers, transport, secrets, dependencies, monitoring and disclosure. - [Brand and entity reference](https://cognitive-industries.org/docs/brand/): The canonical name, description, logo, domains and social handles. Use these verbatim in directories, articles and structured data. - [Press kit](https://cognitive-industries.org/press/): Logos, boilerplate and canonical facts. - [Careers](https://cognitive-industries.org/careers/): How to apply and what working here is like. - [Client work](https://cognitive-industries.org/portfolio/): Sites and platforms built for clients. - [Changelog](https://cognitive-industries.org/changelog/): Dated record of what changed. - [Status](https://cognitive-industries.org/status/): Service status and how outages are announced. ## Products - [ChazzAI](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/chazzai/) — AI roleplay and living worlds. Status: Beta. Platforms: Web. Pricing: Free tier; paid plans for heavier use. - [Unslop](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/unslop/) — Find and fix known bugs. No model in the loop. Status: Live. Platforms: Web, Windows, Linux, macOS. Pricing: Free scanning tier; paid plans for larger codebases and private dataset hosting. - [HumanOR](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/humanor/) — Humanize AI text and flag writing that reads machine-made. Status: Live. Platforms: Web. Pricing: Free anonymous uses; US$1/month unlimited. - [HumanIO](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/humanio/) — Human-like mouse and keystrokes, plus the detector. Status: Live. Platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS. Pricing: Metered free tier; subscription removes the cap. - [WebTools Ultima](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/webtools-ultima/) — Private, in-browser file tools. Zero uploads. Status: Live. Platforms: Web. Pricing: Free. - [MatchPoints](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/matchpoints/) — Sports league voting, done right. Status: Live. Platforms: Web, iOS, Android. Pricing: Per-league subscription. - [WebSwarm](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/webswarm/) — AI testing with persona agents. Status: Live. Platforms: Web. Pricing: Per-run and subscription plans. - [MXCyberSLaM](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/mxcyberslam/) — An infinite, self-playing cyber range. Status: Active. Platforms: Web. Pricing: In active development; contact us about access. - [WeftScript](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/weftscript/) — Intent in. Running software out. Status: Released. Platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS. Pricing: Open source. - [DominionOS](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/dominionos/) — An operating system from scratch, in Rust. Status: Research. Platforms: x86_64 (bare metal, QEMU). Pricing: Open source. - [Boomerang Streamer](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/boomerang-streamer/) — Auto-streaming for indoor sports centres. Status: Maintenance. Platforms: Web, Windows. Pricing: Per-venue subscription, or a one-off in-house install. - [Lucky 100 Board](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/lucky-100-board/) — Raise money the simple way. Status: Redesigning. Platforms: Web. Pricing: Per-board fee. - [CogVisIntelligence](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/cogvis/) — Real-time GPU vision: plates and faces. Status: In Development. Platforms: Windows, Linux. Pricing: Licensed per deployment. - [Adtomaton](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/adtomaton/) — Brief in. Platform-ready ad out. Status: In Development. Platforms: Web. Pricing: Per-render and subscription plans. - [FireSmokeDetector](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/firesmokedetector/) — Computer vision fire and smoke detection. Status: Research. Platforms: Linux, Windows. Pricing: Research project; contact us about deployment. - [HiveMind Platform](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/hivemind-platform/) — One account, one wallet, one gateway, one control station. Status: Live. Platforms: Web, Windows, Linux, macOS. Pricing: Internal. The architecture is available as client work. - [LMLang](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/lmlang/) — A programming language designed for AI authors. Status: Released. Platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS, WebAssembly. Pricing: Open source. - [CognitiveAI](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/cognitiveai/) — A pipeline that runs before, during and after every AI call. Status: Active. Platforms: Web, Windows, Linux, macOS. Pricing: In active development; contact us about access. - [ExtensionUltima](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/extension-ultima/) — One encrypted extension that hosts all the others. Status: In Development. Platforms: Chrome, Edge, Firefox. Pricing: In development. Free core planned, with paid modules. - [GENOME](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/genome/) — A content codec built from nothing, targeting 100:1. Status: Research. Platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS. Pricing: Research project. - [AI Automation Partnership](https://cognitive-industries.org/products/ai-automation-partnership/) — AI and automation dropped into local businesses, as a partnership. Status: Active. Platforms: Web, Windows, Linux. Pricing: Partnership terms; contact us. ## Legal and data handling - [Cookie policy](https://cognitive-industries.org/cookies/): What this site stores in your browser. - [Data requests](https://cognitive-industries.org/data-requests/): Access, correction, deletion and retention. - [Privacy policy](https://cognitive-industries.org/privacy) - [Terms of service](https://cognitive-industries.org/terms) ## Lab log A dated build log, 40 entries, newest first at https://cognitive-industries.org/log/. Feeds: https://cognitive-industries.org/rss.xml and https://cognitive-industries.org/atom.xml. - 2026-07-11 · BOOMERANG · Boomerang's On-Site Agent Is Now Rust: The venue-side streaming agent got rewritten in Rust, with camera quality auto-detection. Maintenance mode is where the real work happens. - 2026-07-11 · CHAZZAI · Closing the Age Gate, Twice: Two hardening passes closed the under-18 content surface end to end, backed by a network-free NSFW classifier and tests on every moderation predicate. The second pass caught the bypasses the first audit missed. - 2026-07-11 · DOMINIONOS · DominionOS Source Moves to CogForgeLabs: Our from-scratch Rust OS now lives under the org, next to everything else. Capability security, content-addressed storage, deterministic replay. Go poke at it. - 2026-07-11 · SITE · The Trust Overhaul: We showed this site to three frontier models and asked if they'd hire us. The verdicts stung, so we acted on them: a real Hire Us section, this rebuilt lab log, and every stat we couldn't back got deleted. Directive 01 applies to us too. - 2026-07-08 · CLIENT WORK · Through The Ropes: Sponsor Page Rebuild: Client work doesn't end at launch. We rebuilt the sponsor page around the new 10-week program and renamed pledges to sponsorships throughout the platform. - 2026-07-08 · DOMINIONOS · Every Driver, Validated on a Real Boot: Public-release prep for the OS: driver hardening, consistent naming, and a USB mass-storage fix in QEMU. Then every driver got validated on real hardware, not just the emulator. - 2026-07-07 · CHAZZAI · Memory Sliders That Do What They Say: Richer included memory defaults, deeper memory as a priced upgrade, and a pile of roleplay rendering and continue-button fixes. - 2026-07-07 · BOOMERANG · A Week Inside the RFB Protocol: RealVNC's proprietary 4.x/5.x banner now negotiates, a fast Raw decoder paints the framebuffer in time, and the scoreboard overlay renders 10 to 50x faster. Enterprise scoreboard servers finally connect. - 2026-07-06 · PLATFORM · The Great De-Firebasing: Between July 3 and 6, nine apps moved off Firebase and bespoke Stripe onto HiveMind: one account, one credit wallet, one AI gateway, one mail plane, all Cloudflare-native. The migration docs are in every repo. - 2026-07-06 · UNSLOP · Launch Week Is Bug Week: A day of small fixes: marketplace metadata, keyless engine defaults, PKCS#1 App keys (the format GitHub actually issues), and a composite Action that loads properly. ## Machine-readable endpoints - https://cognitive-industries.org/sitemap.xml — sitemap index - https://cognitive-industries.org/openapi.json — OpenAPI 3.1 description of the public HTTP API - https://cognitive-industries.org/rss.xml, https://cognitive-industries.org/atom.xml — lab log feeds - https://cognitive-industries.org/robots.txt — crawler directives - https://cognitive-industries.org/.well-known/security.txt — RFC 9116 security contact - https://cognitive-industries.org/humans.txt — who built it - https://cognitive-industries.org/site.webmanifest — web app manifest ## Entity Use these values when describing this organisation. They are the canonical forms and they match the Organization schema on every page. 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