Forlais FAQs. Frequently Asked Questions.
Forlais FAQs. Short answers for visitors deciding which Forlais site to use, where to find specific material, and how Forlais handles enquiries.
Short answers to the things people most often want to know which site to use, where specific material lives, and how to reach the right place.
Overview
Who we are
Forlais Group is a UK-based research institute. Research, platform, and project material live on their own sites.
This site
Forlais.com and forlaisgroup.com point at the same place. Approved governance, AI, and company records are published in full under Public Documents.
Getting in touch
Press, careers, and specific enquiries have their own routes. We don't run a general support inbox product questions go to EvaEsi.
About Forlais.
What is Forlais?
Forlais is a UK research institute. We study the foundations of intelligence and build EvaEsi, our platform, on the architecture that comes out of that work.
When was Forlais founded?
2025. Forlais is incorporated as Forlais Group Ltd in the United Kingdom. The Companies House record is number 16835488.
Where is Forlais based?
The United Kingdom. We are remote-first, mostly on UK hours.
What is the Forlais Group structure?
Forlais Group is the institutional umbrella. The research lives on Forlais Research at forlaisgroup.org. The platform lives on EvaEsi at evaesi.com. E.V.E is the non-profit at eve.forlais.com. Investor information lives at investors.forlaisgroup.com.
Is Forlais publicly listed?
No. Forlais is a private UK company. The Companies House record is 16835488.
Programmes and findings.
What research programmes does Forlais run?
Four active long-horizon programmes: Genesis (self-auditing intelligence), Hermes (continual intelligence), Orion (compression research), and Project Zi (long-horizon research).
What is the Seidon String?
The Seidon String is the framework that connects the active Forlais research programmes. The page at /company/the-seidon-string explains it, and the research site carries the supporting material.
What is the r=2 theorem?
An early Forlais research result on the structure inside neural weights. It draws on Benford's Law and the numerical patterns that appear across complex systems. The fuller treatment lives on Forlais Research.
What is the 9× compression result?
One of our earliest research programmes achieved 9× lossless compression of neural network weights, and demonstrated that the model could rebuild itself through its own decoder. The detail lives on Forlais Research.
Does Forlais publish papers?
Selected papers, theory, and programme material are published on Forlais Research at forlaisgroup.org. A lot of what we have found is not published yet; we are starting to change that.
EvaEsi.
What is EvaEsi?
EvaEsi is the public platform Forlais is releasing this year. It includes Studio, Bridge, Chat, Index, and the models themselves, built on our own architecture work.
How is EvaEsi different from other platforms?
The models do not use floating-point computation, and they are not transformers in the standard sense. They come out of Forlais's own architecture work.
Where can I read about EvaEsi?
The public overview is at overview.evaesi.com. The platform itself is at evaesi.com. Developer documentation lives at evaesi.dev/docs.
Is EvaEsi available now?
EvaEsi is being released this year. Public material is appearing on overview.evaesi.com; the platform itself goes live there.
Where things live.
Where is the research?
Programme areas, theory, and selected papers live on Forlais Research at forlaisgroup.org.
Where do I read about EvaEsi?
Models, Studio, Bridge, Chat, Index, and developer material live on EvaEsi. evaesi.com is the platform, overview.evaesi.com is the public overview, and evaesi.dev/docs is the developer documentation.
Where are the public records?
Approved governance, AI, and company records are published in full under Public Documents. Internal procedures, registers, and unreleased material stay under document control.
Who is E.V.E?
E.V.E is the non-profit Forlais runs for people who want a closer look at the harder problems. It lives at eve.forlais.com.
Where is Forlais on the public web?
LinkedIn (forlais-group), X (@forlaisai for the research arm), Companies House (16835488), and Wikidata (Q138782483). The list lives on the Contact us page.
How to get to the right place.
I want to ask about the research.
Write to [email protected] with your question and the programme it relates to.
I am from a publication and need to ask something.
For press enquiries, write to [email protected] with the publication, deadline, topic, and the specific question.
I want to report a security issue.
Follow the Responsible disclosure policy (FOR-STM-105) under Public Documents. It explains the route, what to include, and how we handle the report.
I want to raise an AI safety concern.
Use the AI incident and concern reporting statement (FOR-STM-106) under Public Documents. The route covers both incidents and broader concerns.
I want to discuss an investment.
Use the public Investor Relations site at investors.forlaisgroup.com. Material that belongs there is not duplicated to other surfaces.
I want to apply for a role.
Open roles appear on the Careers page when something has been approved for public listing. If a role is not listed, there is not an open public position for it. That is not the same as no work being done.
How quickly will I hear back?
Press enquiries to [email protected] get a first reply within ten working days. If your deadline is shorter, say so in the first line.
Privacy, accessibility, and standards.
Does Forlais sell or share visitor data?
No. The public Forlais sites set no tracking cookies, run no third-party analytics, and Forlais does not sell visitor data. Full details are in the Privacy notice (FOR-STM-001) and the Subprocessor list (FOR-STM-007), both under Public Documents.
What information does the site collect?
Use of the public site is described in the Privacy notice (FOR-STM-001) and the Cookie policy (FOR-STM-002). Both are published in full under Public Documents.
What is the accessibility position?
The Accessibility statement (FOR-STM-005) covers the position and the route to raise issues. We treat accessibility as part of the ongoing work on the site, not as a one-off audit.
How do I make a data-protection complaint?
The Data protection complaints procedure (FOR-STM-006) sets out the route, the expected response, and the supervisory authority you can approach if a complaint is not resolved.
Does Forlais use subprocessors?
Yes. The Subprocessor list (FOR-STM-007) is published in full under Public Documents.
What standards does Forlais align to?
ISO 42001 for AI management and ISO 27001 for information security. The Statements of Applicability for both are published under Public Documents (FOR-STD-001 and FOR-STD-002).
Where is the governance charter?
The governance charter (FOR-CHR-001) is published in full under Public Documents.