Building Infrastructure for AI and AGI.
Research to Industry — intelligent data platforms, adaptive neural architectures, advanced collaboration, and the intuitive interfaces that connect them.
The Demands Shaping Tomorrow.
Bubble or not, fundamental demands and systemic risks are in play — shaping our inevitable transition to intelligent economies. Our research sits at their crossroads.
Research and Projects.
Current projects in data infrastructure, neural networks, and adaptive UIs.
Data infrastructure shapes what's possible. Real-time databases, distributed data networks, collaborative intelligence sharing — we're building the infrastructure layer for how intelligent data is stored, moved, and shared at scale.
A real-time synchronisation engine for sharing intelligence assets — graphs, tensors, documents and streams — across users and nodes. Operates across trust boundaries with cryptographic guarantees of integrity and lineage. Infrastructure for intelligent collaboration at scale.
Technical
- Data Types
- Graphs, trees, tensors, documents, and streams — structures that underpin intelligence.
- Speed
- Zero-copy architecture. High-speed operations with minimal memory overhead.
- Communication
- Wire-optimised deltas. Immutable, append-only, cryptographically chained.
- Written in Rust
- Multi-threaded. Built for performance and safety.
- Zero-Trust
- Coordination across users and nodes without requiring centralised trust.
- Decentralised
- Standalone or networked. Isolated node or connected ecosystem.
Performance
- 100M operations per second
- Single node throughput
- Sub-100ms propagation latency
- Across the network
- 1,000+ concurrent actors
- Real-time coordination
Use Cases
- Documents
- Real-time collaborative editing with full version history
- Tensors
- ML model and embedding distribution, Apple Silicon optimised
- Graphs & Trees
- Knowledge structures, ontologies, relationship mapping
- Streams
- Live feeds, event sourcing, real-time intelligence pipelines
A distributed data layer for intelligent content delivery. Synchronise complex data structures like streams, graphs and documents across a global network. Traditional CDNs replicate blobs, but when your data is more complex, the CDN model breaks down.
This is the universal problem of data-sharing, optimised. An intelligent CDN that syncs only what changes, to only where it's needed, with full control over who sees what. Delta-only propagation means hyper fast sync from node to node to the browser. Selective node networks mean data stays where you define, not scattered globally by default.
This is infrastructure for a distributed data layer without building it yourself.
Technical Capabilities
- Selective Node Networks
- Define which POPs sync. Selective replication, not global caching.
- Edge Auth
- Database-grade access control at the edge.
- Delta-Only Propagation
- Only changes sync. Sub-second propagation.
- Complex Data Models
- Graph, document, tensor, stream. Multi-paradigm.
- Direct Browser Integration
- Sub-10ms via WASM/QUIC. Browser as first-class node.
Use Cases
- Intelligent CDN
- Structured data, not static assets. Live, permissioned intelligence.
- Distributed Databases
- No infrastructure overhead. Globally distributed, sub-second sync.
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Real-time streams between agents, users and teams. Coordination at speed.
Intelligent systems typically choose CPU or GPU — or, when combining both, face separate memory architectures limited by bandwidth. Apple Silicon changes this. Unified memory enables zero-copy between operation classes, plus iterative high-frequency feedback loops between CPU and GPU not previously possible.
No Apple Silicon-optimised databases exist. The architecture is new. We're building one.
Research Focus
- Unified Memory
- Shared memory between CPU and GPU. No transfer bottleneck.
- Zero-Copy Operations
- Data stays in place. Both compute units access directly.
- Hybrid Workloads
- Graph traversals (CPU) alongside matrix operations (GPU).
- High-Frequency Feedback
- Iterative loops between compute classes at speed.
A real-time stream of intelligence assets — insights, events, updates, inferences — flowing through your systems and out to others. Subscribe to feeds. Publish your own. Route intelligence where it's needed, secure what's sensitive.
This is actionable intelligence at scale. Not static knowledge bases — living feeds that update as the world changes. Less noise, more clarity.
Technical Capabilities
- Feed Subscriptions
- Subscribe to intelligence streams. Filter by relevance, domain, or source.
- Publishing
- Expose your insights as feeds. Control who subscribes.
- Pipeline Integration
- Connect to existing data pipelines. Ingest, transform, route.
- Real-Time Updates
- Knowledge bases that stay current. Ontologies that evolve.
- Permissioned Access
- Fine-grained control over what flows where.
Use Cases
- Domain Knowledge Sync
- Shared ontologies and world models, updated in real-time.
- Inference Distribution
- ML outputs flowing to downstream systems as they're generated.
- Event Intelligence
- Business events enriched with context, routed to those who need them.
The AI industry is racing to build bigger models. We're researching how smaller, specialised systems can coordinate to achieve more.
Large models are expensive, opaque, and inflexible. Training costs scale with parameters. Relationships are buried in hidden layers. Updating means retraining. Graphs offer a different path. Smaller, specialised networks that capture dimensions within information through explicit relationships. Transparent, modular, adaptable. Update what changes without rebuilding everything.
If cheaper intelligence wins the long game, Graph Networks lead — order of magnitude savings while matching or outperforming larger models.
Research Focus
- Cost Efficiency
- Lighter architectures, lower compute, faster iteration
- Transparency
- Relationships are explicit, not hidden
- Modularity
- Update or extend independently. Adapt without rebuilding.
- Agility
- Respond to changing requirements without retraining
Applications
- Intelligent Search
- Automated relationship mapping replaces manual categorisation
- Personalised AI
- Personal context as composable layer, not static profile
What happens when multiple specialised graphs work together? A graph for domain knowledge, another for context, another for memory, behaviour, personal profiles. Each captures a different dimension. Each does what it does well. How do they communicate? What gets shared? What's hidden? When do they converge?
Our research focuses on the interface — training intelligent communication protocols between graph layers. Keys, priorities, selective sharing. The applications for this are immense.
Research Focus
- Interface Optimisation
- How layers communicate and coordinate
- Single-System Applications
- Search, personalisation, intelligent organisation
- Multi-Agent Coordination
- Parallel processes, shared state, real-time sync
- Cross-Border Intelligence
- Supply chains, markets, distributed collaboration
Applications
- Intelligence Mining
- Identifying meaningful relationships in changing data flows
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Agents coordinating through shared graph structures
Cross-border intelligence represents a new frontier. Systems that span economic boundaries — supply chains, markets, federations of competing interests. Behaviour that is probabilistic rather than declarative. Outcomes that emerge from interaction, not instruction.
The question shifts from "what should the system do" to "what game are we designing". Game theory applied not as abstraction, but as architecture. Designing the rules so coordination compounds value, so sharing outperforms hoarding.
Research Focus
- Game Design as Architecture
- Rules that shape emergent behaviour
- Probabilistic Systems
- Outcomes that emerge, not instructions that execute
- Reward Systems
- Learning optimal strategies through interaction
Applications
- Supply Chain Coordination
- Shared intelligence reducing risk across participants
- Intelligent Markets
- Collaboration vs competition to drive value creation
Schema is typically static — defined upfront, maintained separately from data, disconnected from how data actually behaves.
What if schema was learned? A statistical topology mapping term frequencies, co-occurrence, relationship distributions. Short codes for common terms, approaching Shannon entropy. The same mapping that optimises delta communication becomes a signal for retrieval — a query enters the structure, navigates encoded relationships, informs search before heavier operations engage.
Schema versions that evolve with the data it describes.
Research Focus
- Statistical Topology
- Schema as learned structure — frequencies, co-occurrence, distributions.
- Delta Optimisation
- Short codes for common terms. Approaching Shannon entropy.
- Schema-Aware Retrieval
- Query navigates encoded relationships before heavier operations.
- Self-Tuning
- Schema versions evolve with data dynamics.
Research to develop intuitive interfaces that meet the new opportunities posed by intelligent systems — adaptive, dimensional and able to communicate information at scale.
Rendering billions of nodes in the browser using Rust, WebAssembly and WebGPU. 3D visualisation for spatial navigation through complex structures. Multi-layered information sets that expand and collapse. Real-time data integration. Analytics capability on large datasets while navigating complexity without losing context.
Research Focus
- Browser Performance
- Rust, WebAssembly/WebGPU. Billions of nodes rendered in real-time.
- 3D Navigation
- Spatial navigation through complex structures.
- Multi-Layered
- Information sets that expand and collapse across layers.
- Real-Time Integration
- Live data flowing through the visualisation.
- Analytics at Scale
- Large dataset analysis without losing context.
What if the interface was a projection of the graph itself? UI dynamically generated from structure.
UI traversal is extended with graph inference — predictions on the next step, making for UIs that are highly intuitive, and adaptive, able to recognise patterns and integrate changing models in realtime. The UI learns alongside the user.
Research Focus
- Graph-Driven Rendering
- Structure drives interface. Data changes, UI follows.
- Predictive Navigation
- Next steps as inference. Anticipation based on context and behaviour.
- Adaptive Learning
- UI learns from interaction. Improves over time.
- Realtime Integration
- Changing models integrated on the fly.
About Econic.
Econic is an Australian research-first AI company focused on long-term technology value. Our research is industry-guided — shaped by real problems, delivered as products and applications.
Research to Industry.
Research shaped by real problems, delivered as products and applications. Industry guides the questions; rigour shapes the answers. The output is infrastructure that works.
Community Driven.
Our core projects are open source, with a bent toward socially impactful outcomes. We believe collaborative intelligence is the most likely course for a global AI economy.
For the Future.
Decentralisation over centralisation. Collaboration over competition. An AI economy where shared intelligence outperforms centralised control.
Q3 2026
- Realtime Graph Database—Release
- Graph Neural Networks—POC
Q4 2026
- Intelligence Feeds—Pilot
- Automated Organisation—Pilot
H1 2027
- Intelligent Search—Pilot
- Personalisation Engine—Pilot
H2 2027
- Distributed Data Network—Launch
- Adaptive Interface—Demo
H1 2028
- UI Framework—Release
- Multi-Dimensional Vis—Release
H2 2028
- [Open]

Message from the Founder
Jordan Rancie
"Collaboration is a universal outcome we can optimise for."
With over two decades of experience in distributed systems and AI research, I founded Econic to solve the fundamental challenges of real-time collaborative intelligence at scale.