One name. One responsibility.
I build it, I run it, I read your brief, and I sign the verdict. No fund behind it, no analyst pool, no name on the report but mine. One person designed the pipeline, operates it, and stays accountable for the call. Straight out of Bayern.
Fabian Ilg · Lucid Labs · Bayern · solo · founded, built and run by one engineer
You talk to the person who runs the pipeline.
Independent means no analyst pool passing your brief along and no fund whose answer is decided before the work starts. You talk to the person who runs the pipeline and checks the highest-stakes facts by hand.
Fabian Ilg · Bayern
It started as a system for myself. The diligence was a byproduct.
The honest version: Verdict was not the plan. I built an AI system for my own work, and the pipeline behind it turned out to do something I had not set out to sell.
A personal AI system, built for me
I wanted a tool that actually understood my work and remembered it. So I built Lucid, a personal AI system, piece by piece. Not a product. A thing I needed.
It became a memory graph and a research pipeline
Lucid grew a persistent memory graph, semantic vectors, and a multi-agent research pipeline that could fan out across sources, weigh them, and pull a question apart instead of summarising it.
The same pipeline reads a company cold
I pointed that pipeline at a company instead of a research question, and the output looked like independent diligence. Sourced claims, weighed signals, an honest verdict where the evidence actually pointed. That was the moment Verdict made sense.
Verdict is that pipeline, productized
Then I read what passes for AI research elsewhere. Most of it is a plausible summary with no sourcing and no discipline. Verdict exists so the diligence you buy is not one more of those. It is built to the standard I held my own system to.
Why this desk exists.
Most AI "research" is a confident guess. A fluent summary, no sourcing, no discipline, no separation between what is known and what is asserted. That is exactly why so much AI output reads well and means nothing when a real decision is on the line. When Verdict reads a company for you, it is not at the quality you see everywhere else. It is at the quality I built for my own system.
The system behind it, in numbers.
Lines shipped across the system. Nine months, one engineer, in production.
Memory nodes as 768d vectors, retrieved by relevance. The memory layer every report runs on.
Self-hosted inference on a dedicated GPU. EU only, no data resold.
Direct. No layers, no stake in the deal.
Independent means no analyst pool passing your brief along and no fund whose answer is decided before the work starts.
The usual apparatus
- An analyst pool you never meet
- An account manager between you and the work
- A fund pushing the deal it is invested in
- A conflict of interest baked into the answer
The person, directly
- The person who built the pipeline reads your brief
- No fund affiliation, no stake in whether you proceed
- The highest-stakes facts checked by hand
- One name on the report, accountable for the call
The multi-agent pipeline Verdict runs on.
If you want to see how deep the engineering goes, look at the bench it runs on. The same memory layer, sourcing discipline, and self-hosted inference that carry my own system carry straight into every report.
The person behind the desk is public. If you want to see who signs your report before you send a brief: @Fabi-SPL on GitHub · LinkedIn.
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