ARCENCEIn development
Etymology & First Principles
ἀρχή
archeGreek. The first principle, the origin everything else is built from.
-enceFrom Latin -entia. A state of being, as scientia became science.
archBy sound. A structure in which every stone is held in place by the others.

Arcence: the state of holding to first principles.

How We Work

Research and engineering standards

I

Claims carry their conditions

Every improvement claim names its dataset version, split, leakage audit, baseline, metric, seed count, accelerator, and cost.

II

Falsifiers are written first

The results that would prove a claim wrong are fixed before any model is trained, so they cannot be renegotiated afterwards.

III

Negative results are published

They appear in the same table as positive ones. A clean negative result on a well-designed benchmark is a real contribution.

IV

Baselines run before the model

Simple baselines are measured first, at matched parameters and compute, with at least three seeds and confidence intervals.

Founder's Note

Why Arcence exists

Vaishak Girish Kumar
Founder, Research & Engineering · Buffalo, New York
vaishak@arcence.tech

In 2024, I had an idea for an AI company called Fumble AI.

The idea was to build specialized models and AI systems for organizations. Rather than give every company the same general-purpose intelligence, I wanted to build systems around what each organization actually needed.

I never launched Fumble AI. But the idea stayed with me, and the technical questions behind it kept getting deeper.

By 2026, during my graduate work in artificial intelligence at the University at Buffalo, I was exploring model architectures, inference systems, memory, and orchestration. That work raised a more fundamental question: why should the architecture of intelligence be treated as something fixed, when it is one of the most important things we can design? And if we can design that structure, how do we know what it actually does inside?

An arch does not stand because one stone is extraordinary. It stands because of the structure that connects its parts. The arrangement changes what the individual pieces can do.

Arcence is building Research OS to specify, test, and understand model architectures and mechanisms, Foundry OS to help organizations turn requirements into a controlled model-engineering and deployment workflow, and the Assurance Plane to keep evidence, provenance, and governance attached at every step.