RFI-IRFOS is an independent Austrian research institute building the Ternary Intelligence Stack (TIS) — a full-stack, post-binary AI platform (language, compiler, ISA, virtual machine, linear algebra, API, and model) built on balanced-ternary arithmetic {-1, 0, +1}.

Our proof that the model layer works is albert. — a ternary Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch that grows its own architecture through autonomous, plateau-gated Net2Net surgery.

• ternary-intelligence-stack — the full TIS monorepo: the Ternlang language, the BET virtual machine, @sparseskip sparse inference, and albert.
• albert. — a ternary Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch, growing its own depth via autonomous plateau-gated surgery · HuggingFace
• rusty-penguin — a ternary-first operating system written from scratch in pure Rust: its own kernel, GUI desktop, from-scratch TCP/IP stack, and a Linux ABI layer that runs real binaries on bare metal.
• Lighthouse — the institute's sovereign in-house workplace OS: one self-hosted Rust + React binary that runs the entire not-for-profit from a single dashboard — comms, docs, CRM, finance, payroll, HR, governance, and albert.'s live training telemetry beside the company's own data. Append-only 50-year audit trail, offline-first, EU-clean by construction, ternary-native — the institute dogfooding its own stack. (internal · live at ternlang.com/lighthouse)
• invisible-layer — making the smartphone sensor array visible: surveillance literacy you can feel.
• albert-spores — a federated weight pool of collaborator checkpoints feeding albert.
• android-security-audit-2026 — 100 Android apps · 74 companies · 150+ critical findings · NYSE · NASDAQ · LSE · XETRA · coordinated disclosure 2026-09-19.
• aladdin-mini — open-source disclosure impact trading signal engine + Simeon Hedge System (SHS). named after blackrock's aladdin ($21T AUM). this one is smaller. and free. "sniper, not machine gun."
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Our research is published in the open — the Ternary Intelligence Stack whitepaper lives on OSF with a persistent DOI.

Patent pending A50296/2026 (TIS platform, Austrian Patent Office). Developed and documented for EU AI Act Art. 13 / 14 / 15 (transparency, human oversight, robustness) compliance by design.

RFI-IRFOS is a registered, fully regulated Austrian entity — not an informal initiative. It is a not-for-profit: it earns revenue through multiple streams permitted by its statutes and reinvests at least 90% of surplus into the research mission (at most 10% retained for operations). Surplus is not distributed to members.