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Building the Future.Runtime Assurance for Autonomous Systems

Anatax is an edge-first platform that helps organizations monitor, verify, and control AI-powered autonomous systems through continuous telemetry, policy enforcement, and operator oversight.

Current Project — Anatax · In Development

Anatax supervises mission software; it does not replace it. Policies are defined by your operators and responses are configured by you.

Gran Baron Labs is an independent engineering initiative building foundational infrastructure for the next generation of autonomous systems.

Autonomous System SupervisionConcept
Architecture
Edge-First
Verification
Continuous
Policy
Deterministic
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01Mission & The Problem

Mission

“To give organizations the confidence to deploy autonomous systems — with continuous verification, clear accountability, and operational resilience.”

The Problem

Autonomous systems are making more decisions without human intervention. Organizations need a way to continuously verify that these systems operate safely, reliably, and according to policy after deployment.

These systems are expanding fast into robotics, industrial automation, transportation, aerospace, and defense. Testing before deployment says little about how they behave once they are running in the field.

Our Focus

Traditional network defenses protect infrastructure and applications. Anatax focuses on assuring autonomous systems while they operate.

02Our Approach

Supervision, Separate From Mission Software

Independent Supervision Layer

Anatax runs alongside mission software, not inside it.

It continuously checks identity, integrity, communications, and critical actions before they affect the system.

Keeping supervision separate adds assurance, safety, and accountability without redesigning the autonomous application.

LAYER 01Mission SoftwarePerception · PlanningControl · ActuationASSURANCE PLANEAnataxObserveruntime telemetryVerifyintegrity + behaviorEnforceoperator policyControlconfigured responseLAYER 03OperatorsVisibility · ApprovalPolicy authorshipTELEMETRYACTIONSEVIDENCEPOLICYRUNTIME ASSURANCE TOPOLOGY — CONCEPTUAL

Edge-First

Decisions are made locally on the system, with no dependence on connectivity.

Continuous Verification

Identity, integrity, and actions are checked throughout operation, not just before deployment.

Deterministic Policy

Every critical action is evaluated against explicit policy before it executes.

Full Visibility

Every decision is recorded so operators can see exactly what the system did, and why.

03Core Runtime Capabilities

Core Runtime Capabilities

Eight capabilities, all running continuously while the system is operating:

01

Identity

Continuous verification of cryptographic node and process identities during live operation.

02

Integrity

Real-time validation of system state, memory safety, and executable binaries.

03

Action Validation

Critical commands and autonomous actions are evaluated before they execute.

04

Policy Enforcement

Deterministic evaluation of actions against explicit, human-defined operating policy.

05

Safety Controls

Fail-safe triggers, return-to-base routines, and safe modes invoked the moment limits are crossed.

06

Audit Logging

An immutable record of every policy decision and critical action taken.

07

Observability

Real-time telemetry across system boundaries and execution traces, in one place.

08

Fleet Management

Central governance of policy and trust parameters across an entire fleet.

04Current Research

Research Areas

Eight areas of engineering research, moving from protecting the system to seeing it clearly to running it at fleet scale:

01

System Integrity

Low-level integrity verification, memory safety compliance, and deep-system threat detection.

02

Runtime Assurance

Continuous, non-intrusive monitoring of high-autonomy decision-making during live operation.

03

Policy Enforcement

Turning human intent and regulatory mandates into machine-readable rules evaluated in real time.

04

Runtime Control

Orchestrating fail-safes, human approval loops, and hardware return-to-base states.

05

Identity & Trust

Adapting Zero Trust to edge robotics with cryptographically secure, hardware-bound identities.

06

Runtime Observability

Standardizing multi-modal logs, system metrics, and execution traces into a single panel.

07

Fleet Management

Securely distributing telemetry and policy parameters across geographically dispersed fleets.

08

AI Safety

Applied research into transparent, auditable control loops for non-deterministic software.

05Development Roadmap

Development Roadmap

The timeline prioritizes stability and defensive rigor over rapid commercialization.

  1. Phase 1

    Research & Architecture (Current)

    Defining the architecture, assurance model, threat analysis, and engineering foundations.

  2. Phase 2

    Core Platform

    Building the framework, secure communication layer, identity architecture, and policy infrastructure.

  3. Phase 3

    Edge Agent

    A lightweight on-system component for identity verification, integrity validation, secure communication, and local monitoring.

  4. Phase 4

    Assurance Engine

    The deterministic engine that evaluates behavior, validates critical actions, enforces policy, and records every decision.

  5. Phase 5

    Reference MVP

    The first operational build, supervising a simulated autonomous system end to end.

  6. Phase 6

    Pilot Program

    Validating Anatax with early design partners in commercial autonomous environments.