Trustworthy infrastructure
for AI systems.
Sonata42 Limited is a small AI research and engineering company registered in Scotland. Both of its directors have designed and operated communications networks since the 1990s.
The company works on two lines of research. The first is a routing and protocol layer that lets specialist AI systems find and coordinate with one another, using ideas from Internet routing. The second is a measurement integrity layer: software that stops an AI system from presenting a number it made up as a number that was measured.
The target application areas are systems where a wrong value has real consequences, such as maritime, energy, and industrial systems. These are targets for the research, not existing deployments. The research page describes both lines of work.
Sonata42 welcomes correspondence from research collaborators, industry partners, and funders.
Where the work stands.
- The routing layer was set out in a 2024 research proposal, NeuroNet Synergy. Its planned elements are a capability advertisement format, a route selection method, a session handshake, and a label switched forwarding plane.
- The measurement integrity layer was specified in a 2026 research proposal.
- Slot Gateway, the newest line of work, applies a time slot protocol to shared AI tools. The protocol is described in a public preprint and has been tested with a working simulator. The gateway software itself is the next stage, and it will be released openly under the Apache 2.0 licence.
- The plumbing calculus compiler, which the measurement integrity work builds on, is publicly released as open research software under the AGPL.
- The company is seeking research grants, research partners, and collaborators to take this work forward.
- Investors interested in the company's future plans are welcome to get in touch.