The research lab behind
cognitive software
B12 Labs is the research lab behind BOSS — an AI-native operating system for creators, SMBs, and enterprises. We believe software has been missing a cognitive layer since the 1970s: durable memory, a reasoning substrate, and a learning loop that improves across sessions and users. We build that layer and the products that show what it enables.
Why “B12”
Vitamin B12 is the nutrient that keeps neurons healthy and memory sharp. It's a small molecule with disproportionate effect on cognition. That's how we think about the work: small components — a file format, a routing rule, a markdown dialect — with outsized impact on what software can do. Lean, essential, compounding.
What we build
We ship three things. BOSS is the consumer-facing AI operating system at boss.ceo — 35 studios (Voice, Movie, Scribe, Social, Agents, Personas…) with real user traction. Cintrico is the enterprise tier at cintrico.com — same platform, BYOK encryption, SOC 2, centralized spend. Engram is the open-source memory layer at github.com/B12Labs/engram — MIT-licensed, 97% smaller than vector DBs, sub-millisecond recall.
How we work
- Open by default. Engram is MIT. The Lucid cognitive framework is public. We publish what we learn so others can build on it.
- Owned compute. Four VMs, 256 GB RAM, 4 TB disk combined. Whisper, NeuTTS, VibeVoice, VoxCPM, Piper, Gemma 4, Qwen 3, MiniCPM all run locally — not just behind an API bill.
- BYOK first. Users bring their own LLM keys, encrypted per-user in Cloudflare R2. We never fall back to platform keys in production.
- Pay for results, not models. Commodity coding is a gross-margin business. Council routes every call to the cheapest-adequate model; premium models only when the task actually requires them.
