SYNTHEKOS is in use today and available now, for pilots and for deployment, and it keeps evolving. This page lists every feature and option, each marked plainly: available now, in development, planned or a concept. Being plain about the difference is deliberate, for a system whose whole claim is that it tells you the truth.
How the answering works, in pictures, and a tour of the admin portal: the Capabilities Guide → · Ask the real system: talk to Synth →
Every SYNTHEKOS answer comes from documents you choose, names its source, and is checked before anyone sees it. When the documents do not hold the answer, it says so instead of guessing.
Answers are drawn only from the documents you load, and each one names the document it came from, linked to the page.
If the documents do not cover a question, SYNTHEKOS refuses instead of inventing an answer. In grounded mode the refusal is enforced in code, not just requested of the model.
A small, deterministic check that every answer passes: each number in an answer must appear in the documents or in the question.
It checks numbers and sources, not the meaning of every sentence, so it cannot prove an answer is true.
Grounded: documents only. Hybrid: documents first for facts, general knowledge clearly marked as such. Open (also called Floating): the model's general knowledge too. The administrator chooses which mode each person, kiosk or machine may use.
Web search can be added to a mode by the administrator, one person or one kiosk at a time. It is off by default, and any answer that used the web says so.
A signed record of an answer: the question, the answer, the passages it came from with a fingerprint of each document, and the check result, so anyone can later confirm where an answer came from.
It will prove where an answer came from, not that the document itself is right.
Step-by-step procedures checked by accountable people, so a technician, operator or visitor follows exactly what was approved.
Procedures are written in plain text by the people accountable for them, signed off by name, and followed step by step by voice or on screen. Each step can carry its facts (a torque value, a temperature, a time) and the page of the manual it came from.
Procedures are kept apart from the document library on purpose: a procedure is followed exactly as approved, never paraphrased by the AI.
A plain-text procedure is checked and turned into a validated .synth file. No AI is involved, on purpose: anything unclear is refused with its line number, and a malformed procedure can never be loaded. A template starts a new one; examples include a baking recipe and a brake job with torque values.
Tools for writing, reviewing and maintaining large libraries of procedures across an organisation.
A SYNTHEKOS kiosk stands where questions come up all day: a home for sale, a reception desk, a showroom, a service counter. It answers from its own documents and hands everything else to a person you name.
Any device with a modern browser, a camera and a microphone can be a kiosk screen; the AI itself runs on the SYNTHEKOS box. Polite replies to hello and thank you; real questions answered from the kiosk's documents; everything else handed to a person.
The kiosk wakes and greets someone who walks up (it notices movement or a face) and starts a fresh session once nobody has been there for a set time, which the administrator chooses. The camera is used only to notice that someone is there.
Nothing is recorded, and nobody is identified.
An animated face that speaks the answers, follows the voice and, while it waits, mirrors the visitor's head and expression so they can see it is paying attention. Try the presence demo →
Load the listing and the kiosk answers buyers: price, size, fees, parking, pets, with the agent's own hand-off line for everything else. Stand a laptop up in the home, or let visitors open it on their own phone.
One example of many: the same kiosk serves a showroom, a reception desk or a service counter.
A kiosk that starts listening only when someone says its name.
When a kiosk does not know an answer, it can text its owner and learn from the reply.
K-CUE is an optional extra input. Alongside what someone types or says, it can add simple, visible behaviour, seen on the device while they talk to it, so that an assistant can notice confusion the way a person across a desk does. The administrator decides whether it is used. It describes what it sees, never what someone feels. It is in research and development: the observing works today; letting the assistant use it is being developed. Try the K-CUE demo →
Over the last eight seconds: brows furrowed, brows raised, smiling, frowning, eyes narrowed, eyes wide, looking away, rapid blinking, nodding, head shaking, high intensity, or face not visible. Read on the device, about 30 times a second, from dozens of facial movements and the head's position.
Looking down is ignored on purpose: that is someone typing their question.
With cues switched on, the person sees the cues under their own message, marked as observed and not sent to the AI. The box keeps a text log of the cues for review; no picture, video or face measurement is stored.
The animated face copies the visitor's head and expression while they compose a question, so they can see exactly what the system perceives, then answers as itself.
An administrator-enabled mode that adds the cues, measured against the person's own starting point, to what the assistant knows about the conversation, so it can slow down, simplify, or ask "shall I explain that again?"
The test it must pass before it is offered: cues change how it answers, never what the documents say. The same question with or without cues must give the same facts.
Close to the screen (within about a metre) expression cues are meaningful. Across a room only presence and head direction are reliable, and the system treats them that way.
SYNTHEKOS runs open AI models on the box itself, with no cloud AI service.
The administrator sets a box-wide default and can give any single person, machine, portal or kiosk its own model, for example a coding model for a developer.
Run models on other computers on the same local network, so a larger server can serve the box.
Let a powerful outside model draft the answer, and let SYNTHEKOS check it against your own documents before anyone sees it: supported claims pass with their source, unsupported ones are withheld.
Canada works in two official languages, and so should a public kiosk.
Speech recognition is set to English today, and English is the only language SYNTHEKOS is stated to support.
The plan: SYNTHEKOS notices whether a visitor speaks or types French or English, answers in that language from the same verified documents, and speaks it back, with a button to switch.
French refusals, French number formats (42,5) and French documents must pass the same checks as English before this is offered.
SYNTHEKOS is administered by you, not by us.
An administrator decides what each person or machine may see and do: which documents, which answer mode, which model, whether web search is allowed.
Give a team, community or company its own portal with its own documents and its own administrator.
Other systems can ask SYNTHEKOS questions directly and receive the answer, its sources and the check result.
A signed-in person can teach it new facts: typed, with one click on any reply, or by voice. Each fact is confirmed, credited to the person who taught it, editable, and can be removed again.
Every question and answer is kept as text in an audit trail. If someone speaks, the sound is turned into text and deleted straight after.
The administrator decides what each person knows: a shared library everyone draws on, documents for one person only, or both.
Documents and settings for a whole group at once; today groups organise the admin list, and documents are set for everyone or per person.
Let an administrator decide the order of evidence: documents first, the web first, or stop as soon as the documents answer.
The AI, the documents, the search and the voice run on a SYNTHEKOS server you control.
Everything runs on the box. Only the optional web search reaches the internet, and only if the administrator allows it.
Run it on a local server, in a private cloud, or a mix, with secure online access for the people you choose.
A closed, ready-to-install SYNTHEKOS appliance.
A ready-made set-up so small devices can serve as kiosk screens with no fiddling.
SYNTHEKOS is growing from an assistant that answers into a small team of assistants that can work on a schedule and leave each other notes, without giving up its one rule: you can always see where an answer came from. These are concepts, described so you know the direction; none is offered yet.
Small tasks an administrator writes and schedules for a person: a greeting at sign-in, a morning summary, a reminder every hour. Each script is checked before it runs, and each action it may take is granted separately.
An assistant with no chat window that works on a schedule: reviews new documents overnight, keeps a running set of notes, prepares a briefing.
Assistants on the same box that leave each other messages and post to a shared notice board, each only where the administrator allows.
Everything carries its origin: your documents, the web, a person, or the AI itself. Text the AI wrote stays labelled as AI-written and is never quoted back as if it were one of your documents.
For a live demonstration, a pilot with your own documents, or a deployment, write to [email protected].