01/05
Ali
Suleman
Co-founder
[ ai research lab · 5 founders · hack-nation vl4 ]
Research,accelerated.
Payne is an AI research startup. We build systems that shorten the loop from idea to experiment to evidence, and then we run that loop on ourselves.
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§01thesis
Progress in AI is rarely limited by ideas. It is limited by how fast an idea becomes an experiment, and an experiment becomes evidence. Payne exists to make that loop shorter, every single time it runs.
§02method
One loop, run faster every time.
- 01
Question
Every project starts as a sharp, falsifiable question, not a product spec.
- 02
Experiment
Agents and infrastructure that turn a question into real runs in hours instead of weeks.
- 03
Evidence
Rigorous evaluation. If a result doesn't hold up, it doesn't move forward.
- 04
Compound
Each loop leaves tools behind that make the next one faster.
§03research index
What we’re working on.
- P-01Autonomous experimentationAgents that design, run and read their own experiments.active
- P-02Evaluation & reliabilityMeasuring what models actually do, not what benchmarks reward.active
- P-03Efficient modelsMore capability per GPU-hour, from training to inference.exploring
- P-04Research toolingThe internal stack that keeps the loop fast as it scales.building
§04team
Five founders. One loop.
A small team on purpose: everyone reads the papers, everyone writes the code, everyone runs the experiments.
Ali
02/05
Noah
Schittenhelm
Co-founder
03/05
Colin
Ji
Co-founder
04/05
Tim
Sindelar
Co-founder
05/05
Laurenz
Thümmler
Co-founder
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Hack-Nation VL4
Payne is part of Hack-Nation’s venture lab, the program that grows companies out of the Global AI Hackathon. We’re using it to do what we preach: run the loop, as fast as we can.
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