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| Curtis Forbes founded Epistemic Toolworks™, leads it, and is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-10-19; checked 2026-10-19 |
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| This site is a static site built with Astro and served by Cloudflare; it sets no cookies and carries no advertising or tracking scripts. Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-10-19; checked 2026-10-20 |
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| We use AI tools in our work as a matter of course, and a person approves everything published here. Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-10-19; checked 2026-10-19 |
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| Champollion, in development: machine translation development and deployment, on rails. Its components include a translation CLI (npm), an MCP server for AI agents, and an evaluation harness (open source). Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-10-25; checked 2026-10-25 |
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| Bring the problem, not a spec. A 30-minute call. You tell us what you're working on, and we tell you plainly whether we're the right fit. A written scope within a week: what we'll build and how we'll both know it works, agreed before we write any code. A first working version in 2 to 3 weeks, on sample data or yours, for you to react to. Tests against your own cases, such as past jobs, known answers and real questions, until it passes the test we agreed. Larger systems go in stages, each with its own test. We talk about cost on the call. commitment Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-10-25; checked 2026-10-25 |
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| We keep a dated source for every factual statement on this site. commitment Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-10-25; checked 2026-10-25 |
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| I'm an AI guide, and I answer only from what's on this site. I can be wrong, and I don't discuss prices. commitment Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-10-25; checked 2026-10-25 |
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| We build a team for each project from our network, and hire university talent when the work calls for it. commitment Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-10-26; checked 2026-10-26 |
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| Talk to an expert human. The call is free and takes 30 minutes. A human usually confirms a time within 24 hours, by email. commitment Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-10-31; checked 2026-10-31 |
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| An AI guide, not a person. It can be wrong: the cards on this site and the call are the record. What you type goes through OpenRouter, a US company, to third-party AI model hosts. For text, that is Anthropic, the US company that makes Claude. It may be processed outside Canada, including in the United States, where authorities may be able to access it. OpenRouter doesn't store it, unless its safety screening flags it. Anthropic deletes it within 30 days, unless it is flagged for a safety review (then up to 2 years) or the law requires longer. We use it to answer you here and, if you ask for a call, to arrange it. Guide chats are kept for 90 days, then deleted. Sending your first message loads Cloudflare's bot check, which uses your IP address and browser details to tell people from bots. Please don't type personal or sensitive details, or anything about other people. A call request emails your name, email address, preferred times and project summary to us. Your name, email address and times don't go to the AI model. Up to 20 messages, 500 characters each. The guide switches off when it reaches its daily or monthly limit. Questions: [email protected]. Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-11; checked 2026-11-01 |
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| Bespoke, fit-to-purpose software built with researchers, businesses, and educators. offer Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Assessment by seeded faults: the model plants a mistake, and the student finds it. offer Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Edmonton Daily Brief: many public sources, one daily paper, every item cited. work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| BertaGPT: characters that stay in character. work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Loss falling across two Champollion training runs on a constructed language, October 2026. work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Champollion: a full, agent-ready suite of machine translation development tools, built with low-resource and Indigenous languages in mind. In development work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Bespoke ERPs: software built around how one business actually runs, from first lead to work order. offer Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Examples: Primary Heating and Australia Farm Innovations. client Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Lead generation → Building code check → Auto-generate takeoff → Licensed human review → Vendor quotes and sourcing → Auto-generate WO/PO/Quote offer Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Instructive AI Tutors: most AI chatbots will happily do your homework for you. Our gated tutors are focused on teaching and student learning. offer Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| LLM-fault finding as critical thinking offer Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| champollion.dev work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| edmontondailybrief.ca work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| bertagpt.com work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Edmonton Daily Brief's sources include City of Edmonton, City council, Alberta Legislature, Alberta Court of Appeal, Environment Canada, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton Transit Service and EPCOR, and 215 more. work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Every sentence the Edmonton Daily Brief publishes passes its checks: provenance, fidelity, a refutation check by a second vendor's model, and adjudication for court items, safety items about a criminal case, items whose sources contradict each other and items that could identify a child in care. work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| BertaGPT screens each message for a crisis before any model sees it, builds its prompt on the server and signs the transcript, and checks each reply, with one repair, before the visitor sees it. work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| One Champollion calibration run, into a constructed language: 12,800 training pairs, with 501 dev pairs and 2,001 test pairs held apart; 8,000 steps, training loss logged every 10 steps. Every 800 steps a check scored the model on dev pairs and saved a checkpoint; the best was the last, at step 8,000. Loss is the mean cross-entropy per output token, in nats. From the run log of 14 October 2026. work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Build corpora work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Train models work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Test and deploy methods work Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-03; checked 2026-11-03 |
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| Research Software Development and Consultancy commitment Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-11; checked 2026-11-10 |
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| An AI guide, not a person. It can be wrong. Chats are kept for 90 days and processed in the US. Please don't share personal details or community material. commitment Approved by Epistemic Toolworks™, 2026-11-11; checked 2026-11-11 |
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