CERNEN

Evidence behind every decision.

CERNEN builds decision intelligence: work that sets out what the evidence supports, what it contradicts and what it cannot yet tell, and leaves the final word with the person who has to decide. This is the home of two pieces of that work.

Where to go

Each has its own site with its own details. Pick the one that matches what you came for.

Research
cernen.com/research

A private reading for your research

For researchers and institutions deciding what their research should do next. Send a manuscript, preprint or proposal to the Cernen desk and receive a considered reading, read by people, in confidence.

  • The decisions your work is facing
  • The evidence behind each one
  • Where we would look next
Builders Cup
cernen.com/builderscup

Proof of Progress

Our working demo built for the Google Cloud AI Builder Cup 2026. It is a tool for a municipal engineering office: each month's claimed construction progress is checked line by line against site photos before the office reports it.

  • Each claimed line comes back supported, contradicted or can't tell, with the evidence marked on the photo
  • The AI proposes; the engineer in charge decides every line, and the office head can overrule with a reason
  • One percent-complete entry feeds every report draft the office owes

Pick a role to sign in; no password. All projects, progress claims and amounts in the demo are fictional.

How we work

The same three habits, whatever the subject.

i.

Evidence first

Every finding shows what it rests on, from the evidence behind a research reading to the box drawn on a site photo, so you can check it without taking our word for it.

ii.

A person decides

The tools do the searching and the first pass. The decision, and the reason for it, stays with the person responsible.

iii.

Plain about limits

"Can't tell" is an answer. A mismatch is a flag for review, not proof, and we say which is which.

Write to us

Questions about either site, or about working with CERNEN.

[email protected]