# Ziru Labs

> Ziru Labs roots artificial intelligence in verifiable silicon. The trust layer for AI: hardware-rooted, silicon-level verification addressing physical extraction, bus-level interception, firmware compromise, and hardware-enforced governance.

Ziru Labs is a deep-tech company founded in 2025 (Delaware C-corporation) headquartered in the United States. The company develops a hardware-rooted trust layer for artificial intelligence — silicon-level primitives that are additive to existing silicon-vendor confidential-computing offerings (Intel SGX/TDX, AMD SEV-SNP, NVIDIA confidential computing, Google Tensor Core) and that address the threat surfaces those programs do not cover at the hardware layer: physical extraction, bus-level interception, firmware compromise, and hardware-enforced governance. The first commercial expression of the primitive is Project Phoenix, the security-domain launch of the trust layer.

The company publishes substantive analytical research under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 with citation-anchor permalink IDs. The research program covers the trust layer for AI, the standards window opened by Section 1513 of the FY2026 NDAA (16 June 2026), the AI infrastructure stack model, sovereign and allied considerations, and the founder perspective on the category. Research is hosted on this site at /research with stable URLs of the form /research/[slug].

## Primary navigation

- [Landing](/) — front page; primitive frame and audience routing
- [The Trust Layer](/trust-layer) — long-form thesis on the trust layer for AI; AI infrastructure stack model
- [Technology](/technology) — Project Phoenix, the security-domain launch of the trust layer; layer architecture
- [Research](/research) — published research feed (CC BY 4.0)
- [Company](/company) — mission, founding team, advisory board
- [Engage](/engage) — five structured engagement pathways with NDA pathway
- [Contact](/contact) — routed contact addresses with five-business-day response standard

## Engagement pathways

Five structured tracks for substantive engagement. Each is published with the
counterparty profile and routed email address.

- Strategic Technology Partners — partners@zirulabs.com
- Commercial Partners and Customers — commercial@zirulabs.com
- Sovereign and Allied Partners — sovereign@zirulabs.com
- Policy, Regulatory, and Standards — standards@zirulabs.com
- Investors — investors@zirulabs.com

The NDA pathway for substantive technical engagement is documented at
/engage#nda-pathway.

## Licensing

All published research is released under [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) with Ziru Labs
attributed as author. Specific exceptions apply to block diagrams in full
mechanism-level detail and to patent-relevant specific content; see
/legal/licensing for the full licensing statement.

## Citation

Citations should include the title, author ("Ziru Labs"), the date, the
version, the permalink ID, and a link to the canonical URL on this site.
BibTeX, APA, and Chicago citation formats are available via the citation
modal on each research article page.

## Machine indexing posture

This site is crawler-friendly and citation-friendly. Schema.org JSON-LD
metadata is published on every page (Organization), with WebSite + SearchAction
on the landing page, BreadcrumbList on inner pages, ScholarlyArticle on each
research article, and Person on each founder bio. The sitemap is at
/sitemap.xml and the robots policy is at /robots.txt.