The reasoning system

Decompose anything. Defend everything.

Crift resolves an ambiguous objective — a deal, a case, a project — into a grounded, ratified plan. The machine proposes the structure. You ratify it.

INTAKE BAND 1 · GENERATE / CRITIQUE / SELECT BAND 2 · CLASSIFY / PROPOSE / DISCRIMINATE RATIFIED · LODE TREE RATIFIED node 4.7 · grounded kg · rag evidence
Live demonstration

Watch the map build.

Pick a problem. Crift maps the way through — every angle, every obstacle, and the gap it hasn't closed, in the open.

  1. Accretive synergies kg.econ · 3 chunks
  2. Antitrust exposure kg.reg · HSR
  3. Tax structure rag.chunk ×2
  4. Key-talent retention rag.chunk ×3
  5. Foreign filings — unscoped named gap
  6. Board-ready structure kg + rag ✓
Every gap, named.
The stakes

Find what everyone missed.

Most tools hand you a verdict with no chain behind it, and the status quo fails quietly — an angle missed, a risk unnamed, a cost you never saw. The matter is too important to wing.

An angle no one thought to check.

A risk that stayed unnamed until it cost you.

Reasoning you couldn't reconstruct when someone asked how you got there.

How it works · it learns your field

Expertise, before the first question.

Before a single question is asked, Crift builds itself into a genuine expert on your field — through three pipelines that run in sequence and hand off to each other.

Tier one

Discover the field

The engine researches the domain on its own and surfaces what matters — the moving parts, the forces, the failure modes a practitioner knows are in play. It doesn't wait to be fed documents; it finds the shape of the field, then enriches each finding into a defined, scored piece of knowledge.

tier oneautonomous research
Tier two

Connect the field

It discovers how those pieces relate — including the non-obvious links an expert sees and an outsider misses. This is the step that turns a pile of facts into a knowledge graph: a web where everything that touches everything else is wired together.

tier twokg.*
Tier three

Make it recallable

Finally it organizes the learned field so the exact right knowledge surfaces at the exact right moment, when a real problem comes in. Crift calls each living model of a field a namespace — and it shows up to your problem already expert.

tier threerag.*namespace
How it works · it maps the path

Not an answer — a map you can trust.

Hand it a goal and it returns a full, auditable map of the way through — every step traceable to what it learned, every gap named as its own item you can act on.

The Lode

The spine — the route from where you are to the goal. The word means a path in Old English; the product is named for what it does.

Crests

The forces working in your favor — the things that move the path forward.

Rifts

The obstacles, the contradictions, the risks working against you. Crift surfaces these instead of hiding them — and names every gap as its own item you can act on.

INTAKE BAND 1 · GENERATE / CRITIQUE / SELECT BAND 2 · CLASSIFY / PROPOSE / DISCRIMINATE RATIFIED · LODE TREE RATIFIED node 4.7 · grounded kg · rag evidence
The arc

From unshaped objective to executable plan.

01
Intake

Capture

The unshaped objective enters, however it arrives.

A deal memo, a matter, a goal stated in a sentence. No schema required up front — Crift takes ambiguity as its input, not its obstacle. app.intake → app.project

02
Decompose

Descent

The engine resolves the objective into a Lode tree.

Probabilistic decomposition descends the problem seam by seam, breadth-first through bands — generate, critique, select — branching into nodes a human can reason about. 8 node types · 6 operator families

03
Ground

Anchor

Every node is tied to evidence before it stands.

The knowledge graph and RAG substrate anchor each conclusion to source. Nothing in the tree is asserted without a trace back to where it came from. kg.* · rag.* grounding

04
Ratify

Command

You survey the structure and stamp it.

The dry-run gate puts the entire proposed tree in front of you before anything commits. You approve, revise, or reject — the machine never moves without your seal. dry_run → ratify

05
Playbook

Execute

The ratified tree re-projects as a sequenced workplan.

What you approved becomes an executable playbook — owners, order, dependencies — without re-authoring a thing. Reasoning and execution share one source of truth. playbook projection

Why you can trust it

Reasoning with the receipts.

Honesty is the differentiator. Crift never hands you a conclusion without the reasoning behind it — and it names what it hasn't covered.

Provenance by default

Every conclusion traces to its evidence. No black box to explain away to a regulator or a partner.

Knowledge and preference, kept apart

What Crift knows and what Crift prefers are kept strictly apart — it can't talk itself into a convenient answer, because recall is never swayed by what it would like to conclude. Evidence anchors what survives, and never feeds ranking.

A forensic record

The staging surface persists as the forensic record — nothing is destroyed, and every proposal carries a terminal status: approved, merged, rejected, promoted, demoted. Defensibility is the feature.

Tenant-isolated, and yours

Built multi-tenant and enterprise-grade from the ground up. Your field, your data, and your reasoning stay isolated and yours — deployable into your own database when you require it.

One envelope, one gate

Every action resolves through a single execute envelope with a dry-run ratification gate. Access enforcement is non-negotiable on every call, with no bypass.

Proof, not pitch

We don't pitch. We prove.

“Necessary, not persuasive” is only believed if the company behaves like it means it. These behaviors are the marketing.

Public pricing

The number is on the page, not behind “contact sales.”

A self-serve way in

Let the engine make its own case before a human is ever involved.

No SDR gauntlet

No countdown timers, no manufactured urgency. The absence is the message.

A live demonstration

Point Crift at a hard problem and watch the map build — gaps and all.

One foundation, two faces

The system that keeps the work. The engine that thinks through it.

Crift wears two faces over one core — a configurable system of record your business runs on, and a reasoning engine that maps the way through any problem inside it. Same foundation, same governance, same data.

Questions, answered.

What is Crift?

Crift is a system of reasoning. It takes an ambiguous objective — a deal, a case, a goal — and resolves it into a grounded, ratified, executable structure. The machine proposes the structure; you ratify it.

How is Crift different from a chatbot or a search tool?

It isn't a chatbot, a search box, or a summarizer. Crift learns a field before you ask it anything, then maps the whole path to your goal — every angle, every obstacle, every gap — and shows the reasoning behind each step.

What can I use Crift for?

Planning, M&A and deals, legal cases, investigations, and diagnosis — any problem that has to be understood before it's acted on. Each is a doorway into the same engine.

Can I trust the output?

What Crift knows and what it prefers are kept strictly apart, so its recall can't be swayed toward a convenient answer. Evidence anchors what survives — and never feeds ranking. Every conclusion arrives with the reasoning behind it, and the gaps named in the open.

The founding story

We bet everything on the product and nothing on the pitch.

We bet everything on the product and nothing on the pitch. The confession, in our own words.

Every conclusion, traceable to its evidence

Crift your first deal.

Bring the ambiguity. Crift returns a grounded structure, ready for your seal — and a plan you can defend to anyone who asks how you got there.