PolarisLink
An open, domain-agnostic protocol for governed multi-agent coordination, telemetry and provenance. The specification and the C++20 and Python clients are published under Apache-2.0.
Forticia Research Institute
A private institute for computational research.
Forticia Research Institute is a private institute for computational research across quantitative finance, computational biology, philosophy and governance, and AI instrumentation. It publishes original research and runs a governed environment where researchers and agents work together, with every run logged and replayable.
- Disciplines
- Four, listed below
- Access
- Invitation or application
- Oversight
- Committee review, lead approval
- Record
- Full audit trail
- Open source
- PolarisLink, Apache-2.0
How the institute works
Access, review and oversight are part of the design, not an afterthought. This is the path every collaborator takes.
Admission
Apply
By invitation or application. Seven short steps, and nothing is stored until you submit.
Admission
Committee review
Compliance and fit are assessed before any credentials are issued.
Admission
A scoped workspace
Each project gets its own isolated perimeter, role-gated, with capabilities attached on demand.
Operation
Governed AI
Models draft by default. A research lead approves any write before it lands.
Operation
An audit trail
Every action is kept on the record from the first session, complete enough that nobody has to be asked.
Design
The full architecture
Research infrastructureGoverned AI
Four disciplines
One institute, four fields, each with its own page, methods and papers.
- Quantitative FinanceEquities, FX, futures. Factors and backtests, every run replayable.
- Computational BiologySequence, folding, simulation. Versioned, reproducible labs.
- Cultural IntelligencePhilosophy, governance, ethics. How institutions decide and answer for it.
- AI InstrumentationPrivate models. Multi-agent orchestration. Guardrails on write.
Founders
Cayden Richards
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
He started Forticia in 2023 as a quantitative research lab, now four disciplines.
He is also Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Qlumina Inc., founded in 2026.
caydenrichards.comDr Yash Kulkarni
Co-Founder
Yash is a medical doctor, qualified MBBS, and a co-founder of Forticia.
An open protocol, and the papers
Two ways the institute puts its work where others can read and check it.
Papers
Original research is published here as papers. Each states a question, the method, the results with their uncertainty and the attempts to break them. None is presented as peer reviewed.
Working commitments
Five commitments, each named for the failure it exists to prevent. The full text, with the ideas it borrows, is on the cultural intelligence page.
- We try to be wrong early and cheaply.Failure preventedA result nobody tried to break.
- We name the mechanism before we trust the pattern.Failure preventedA regularity mistaken for knowledge.
- We hide the future from ourselves on purpose.Failure preventedChoosing the test after seeing the answer.
- We keep our failures on the record.Failure preventedBeing fooled the same way twice.
- Every decision has an owner, a trail, and a way to be reopened.Failure preventedA decision nobody answers for.
How to reach us
The research office answers by email. Access requests are reviewed by the committee.
This site publishes no trading signals or performance figures and gives no investment advice.