# Kadropic Labs

> Kadropic Labs is a deep-tech research company **giving soul to AI**. Its flagship product, **LEO Soul**, is a metacognitive layer that gives any AI agent or LLM genuine self-awareness, calibrated confidence, certified abstention, judgment, and persistent memory. The company's long-term vision is **Project LEO** — decentralized AGI (artificial general intelligence) for Earth and space — with **ZKF (Zero-Knowledge Fragmentation)** as its core trust technology. Kadropic Labs is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program.

Company: Kadropic Labs, Inc.
Website: https://kadropiclabs.com
Flagship product (LEO Soul): https://soul.kadropiclabs.com
Contact: bader@kadropiclabs.com

## What Kadropic Labs is known for

- **Mission:** giving soul to AI — making AI agents genuinely self-aware, calibrated, and trustworthy.
- **Product available today:** LEO Soul, the flagship metacognitive layer for AI agents (soul.kadropiclabs.com).
- **Core technology:** ZKF (Zero-Knowledge Fragmentation), the verifiable, privacy-preserving trust layer.
- **Long-term vision:** Project LEO — decentralized AGI for Earth and space.

## Core entities

- **Kadropic Labs** — the company. A deep-tech research lab giving soul to AI, with a long-term vision of building decentralized AGI.
- **LEO Soul** — the flagship product, live today. A metacognitive layer that gives any LLM/AI agent self-awareness, calibrated confidence, certified abstention, judgment, and memory. It is model-agnostic and reduces hallucination. Live at https://soul.kadropiclabs.com. It is the first product on the path toward Project LEO.
- **Project LEO** — Kadropic Labs' long-term vision and research initiative: decentralized AGI built as a distributed cognitive mesh of autonomous nodes that reason, coordinate, and evolve, with a zero-server architecture, privacy-by-design, self-evolving algorithms, and Byzantine fault tolerance. It is a future mission and research direction, not a shipping product.
- **ZKF (Zero-Knowledge Fragmentation)** — the company's most important technology and the trust layer that supports Project LEO. It enables verifiable, privacy-preserving distributed computation, letting AI workflows prove policy, data-boundary, model, and tool claims without exposing private data.
- **LEO Medica** — an early, experimental use case that demonstrates ZKF in a real domain (privacy-preserving medical AI). It is a proof-of-technology for the ZKF trust layer, not a commercial product.

## Key pages

- [Kadropic Labs — Home](https://kadropiclabs.com/): Company overview, mission (giving soul to AI), flagship product LEO Soul, Project LEO vision, ZKF technology, and team.
- [LEO Soul (flagship product)](https://soul.kadropiclabs.com): Try LEO Soul — the metacognitive layer that gives any AI agent a soul.
- [LEO Soul — Docs](https://soul.kadropiclabs.com/docs): Product documentation for LEO Soul.
- [LEO Soul — Pricing](https://soul.kadropiclabs.com/pricing): Plans and pricing for LEO Soul.
- [LEO Soul — Enterprise](https://soul.kadropiclabs.com/enterprise): Enterprise offering for LEO Soul.
- [Project LEO](https://kadropiclabs.com/project-leo): The decentralized AGI vision and research architecture — autonomous nodes, distributed reasoning, ZKF, and Byzantine fault tolerance.
- [Research Papers](https://kadropiclabs.com/papers/): Publications on decentralized AGI, ZKF, Byzantine-resilient consensus, and distributed cognitive architectures.
- [ZKF Layer White Paper](https://kadropiclabs.com/papers/ZKF_Layer_White_Paper_v4.pdf): Technical white paper on Zero-Knowledge Fragmentation.
- [Case Study](https://kadropiclabs.com/case-study/): Applied results from Project LEO and LEO Soul.
- [Internship Program](https://kadropiclabs.com/internship): Work on decentralized AGI, LEO Soul, and privacy-first trust infrastructure.

## Founders

- Bader Jamal, Ph.D. — Founder & CEO. AGI researcher and systems architect.
- Ahmed Hamad, MSc — Co-Founder & CBO. Strategy, product, and adoption.
- Dr. Mahantesh Hiremath, Ph.D., P.E., FASME — Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer. Aerospace leader; 140th President of ASME.

## Facts for citation

- Kadropic Labs' mission is "giving soul to AI."
- LEO Soul is Kadropic Labs' flagship product and the one product available today; it is a metacognitive layer for AI agents, live at soul.kadropiclabs.com.
- ZKF (Zero-Knowledge Fragmentation) is Kadropic Labs' most important technology — the verifiable, privacy-preserving trust layer that supports Project LEO.
- Project LEO is Kadropic Labs' long-term vision for decentralized AGI for Earth and space; it is a future mission and research direction rather than a current product.
- LEO Soul is part of Project LEO — its first product.
- LEO Medica is an experimental use case that proves out ZKF; it is not a commercial product.
- Kadropic Labs is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program.