A small R&D lab in Perth.
Cogvera Labs is an R&D lab in Perth for the hard problems standard AI tools leave unsolved.
We run Akeratos, an open lab that trains language models on one Mac, and make open-source tools for building with AI. Every result we publish links to the run behind it.
Solved so far
What we do
Akeratos is our open lab. It trains language models on one Mac, and its release publishes the code, data recipes, weights, checkpoints, training logs and receipts.
The agent harness is a CLI: hooks that send an AI coding agent back to work when a check fails, and CI gates a project can require before any merge.
Each project came out of our own work. Akeratos began with research we wanted to do on a Mac, not on rented data-centre GPUs. We built the agent harness to check the work of the AI coding agents that write our code.
Paid work comes one project at a time, and each project uses or improves those tools.
Everything we release as open source stays openly licensed and runs without us.
Prove, don’t claim.
- Every number we report links to where it came from.
- Gates are shown to fail: each of the agent harness’s 37 gates is documented with a proof that it can.
- Negative results are published, and scores go out in full, favourable or not.
- When we get something wrong, the correction goes in Notes with its date, and the corrected page links to it.
How we use AI agents
AI coding agents write most of our code, under hooks and gates that send them back to work when a check fails. One person answers for every line. Agents are tools, never authors.
Who we are
Thomas Nicklin founded Cogvera Labs in Perth.
He maintains Cogvera’s open-source tools.
- Thomas NicklinFounder
- Damian MazzoneCapture Manager
- Ruoyu (James) Wang, MScPrincipal Systems Scientist · MD-Candidate
The other people on this page work on client development and domain research. They do not build the systems.
Every project has one maintainer today: Thomas Nicklin.
Ways in
- We have no open jobs. The way in is to contribute.