● SMOS by Ateliss

The optimal trajectory
through science
exists. We compute it.

SMOS is a goal-conditioned research intelligence system. It finds what's missing from your corpus — not what's similar — and computes the optimal path toward your research objective.

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329

Papers live on Alzheimer's corpus

3,414

Claims extracted & scored

+60%

More claims vs. abstract-only

Patents in the founding team

The problem

Science moves fast.
Knowledge doesn't compound.

Researchers drown in papers. Teams repeat known failures. Contradictions go undetected for years. Existing tools find similar work — none tell you what's missing, or what already failed.

50M+

Papers indexed on PubMed alone

264

Papers per year an average researcher reads

85%

Research findings not independently replicated

The solution

Frame research as trajectory optimization.

SMOS converts any research goal into a computable alignment problem — then finds the papers that advance the goal, not just papers that are topically related.

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Goal-conditioned

Master Paper + objective sentence → auto-extracted goal coordinates (Master Claims). Every paper in your corpus is evaluated against these goal coordinates via the Project Alignment Score (PAS).

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Complementarity Engine

The engine finds what's missing, not what's similar. It generates 5 complementary paper slots: missing axis, mechanism gap, bridge, contradiction, recent primary.

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Certified Failures

Shadow Ledger: an anonymized failure library that stops teams repeating known dead ends. Negative iDOI stamps are legally defensible for patent prosecution and IP defense.

Product

One platform. Full epistemic coverage.

From paper ingestion to patent defense — every step of the research intelligence pipeline in one workspace.

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Galaxy — Cluster Map

2D PCA cluster visualization of your entire corpus. See the knowledge landscape, identify gaps, track trajectory over time.

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GPS — Goal Progress Signal

A* path from your current corpus state toward the Master Claims. Measures how far you are from your research objective.

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Diamond — Contradiction Detector

Detects contradiction quartets across your corpus. Surfaces structurally promising regions where opposing findings create research opportunities.

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Shadow Ledger — IP Defense

Immutable, hash-chained log of certified research failures. Negative iDOI stamps provide legally defensible prior art for patent prosecution.

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Team

The founding team are their own first customers.

A biotech CEO, a world-ranked nanoscientist, and an AI founder — all three have personally hit the research synthesis wall.

Laila Quere, PhD

CEO · Co-founder

Active CEO of aKen Medical. PhD Applied Physics. Led fundraising & regulatory affairs across two deeptech startups. R&D at Columbia University. 3 patents.

Tijani Gharbi

CSO · Founder

Full Professor, Univ. Besançon. Founder of Nanomedicine Lab (48 members, 24 MDs). 81 patents · 250+ publications · H-index 33. #1 in France, Nanoscience (AD Scientific Index 2023).

Michel Yanis Gharbi

Technical Advisor

École Polytechnique · MIT. AI research at Adobe. Founder, Reve AI. Expert in large-scale AI systems and generative models.

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Ready to optimize your research trajectory?

Whether you're a research team, a pharma company, or an investor — we'd love to show you what SMOS can do on your corpus.