The knowledge engine

OmniGram — the contradiction engine.

Omni — every domain, one graph. Gram — an engram: the physical trace a memory leaves behind. OmniGram is our engine's memory of how real systems get built: every engineering trade-off is stored as a contradiction — one property improving while another degrades — and the patterns that resolved it are recalled when a new design hits the same wall.

How it resolves

A trade-off is a coordinate, not a sentence.

Most knowledge bases store prose. OmniGram stores the shape of a problem: what improves, what degrades — and recalls how engineers have resolved that same tension before, across every field the engine has learned from.

↑ Improves
Signal strength — drive the sensing channel harder for better sensitivity
↓ Degrades
Thermal safety — the same drive heats the device past its safe limit
The engine recalls how this class of tension was broken before — restructure the operation in time rather than fight it in one dimension — and the engineer re-derives the concrete solution for their own physics. The third example below shows one such resolution.
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Omni — every domain

Cross-domain recall

A thermal practice from one industry answers an enclosure problem in another; a sign-off discipline from chip design answers a firmware release gate. Principles cross domains — concrete recipes never do.

Gram — the engram

Memory with provenance

Every entry carries where it came from and how strongly it has been verified — so a recalled figure is never mistaken for one we measured ourselves, and a model result is never mistaken for a physical one.

Engine — resolution

Contradiction → pattern → design

Structure the trade-off, recall the patterns that resolved it, re-derive them for the target physics, verify with tools, and feed the verified result back in. The loop is what makes the memory grow.

Read

Literature and prior designs are indexed by the tensions they resolve.

Structure

A new problem is written as what improves against what degrades.

Recall

Patterns that broke the same tension elsewhere are surfaced with provenance.

Re-derive

The engineer builds a concrete solution for their own physics.

Verify & return

Tool-verified results are written back as new memory.

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One application

Example: automated design.

Engineering automation from chip to product is one application of the engine, not the engine itself. Three demonstrations where the contradiction loop visibly shaped hardware. The illustrations are symbolic — the designs themselves are not shown.

Open-source silicon flow
RTL to signed-off silicon

A microcontroller SoC on an open flow

An open-ISA processor core with on-chip memory and standard peripherals taken from architecture through register-transfer design, formal property proof, synthesis, physical design and multi-corner timing sign-off. The engine's contradiction discipline showed up as coverage closure: formal proofs generated the exact stimulus that simulation alone had missed.

formal properties proven timing closed across corners foundry precheck passed

⚙ tool-verified Design-flow results re-executed from source; no fabrication claimed. Illustration is symbolic.

Chip to board, closed loop
Sign-off, then the board

A sensor read-out chip and its evaluation board

A multi-channel analogue read-out chip closed sign-off — design rules clean, layout matching the schematic, pad frame merged exactly — and the loop continued past silicon: an evaluation board brings the finished chip out to sensor connectors, clock inputs and test points, fully routed with zero rule violations.

chip sign-off complete board fully routed, rules clean schematic-faithful pin map

⚙ tool-verified Chip verified by tool re-execution; board design-verified in CAD. Illustration is symbolic.

Simulation-driven mechanical design
Contradiction resolved by design

An acoustic sensing enclosure that stays cool

Sensitivity wanted more excitation power; the thermal budget forbade it. The engine's resolution pattern — restructure in time — became sequenced excitation: channels take turns instead of firing together, keeping the temperature rise small where simultaneous drive would have crossed the safety limit. The cavity, the assembly and every design gate closed inside the simulation loop before any material was cut.

contradiction resolved by design thermal-safe operating mode assembly verified in CAD

🔬 simulation-verified Simulation-driven design; physical validation is the named next step. Illustration is symbolic.

Evidence labels. Purple badges are tool-verified results re-executed from source; grey badges are design-verified items; amber would mark known-open items. Illustrations on this page are symbolic renderings, not the designs themselves.

Use the engine

Bring us your hardest trade-off.

Sensitivity vs speed, power vs precision, cost vs compliance — if it's a contradiction, the engine has a coordinate for it.