Archetypal / Our Mission
Advance intelligence. Preserve authority.
Who we are
Archetypal works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, institutional authority, and operational trust. Our focus is the distance between a capable model and a system an organization can responsibly use. That distance includes policy, source context, human judgment, and evidence.
Authority for every decision.
Our technology
Guarded connects observation, assessment, policy decisions, and explanation. The platform brings governance into AI workflows through browser, desktop, control-plane, and probe configurations. Evaluation and case review help teams understand the conditions under which a system can be relied upon.
Our research
The NSA CRADA provides a setting for cooperative research into AI governance and evaluation. Our research direction includes frontier-model benchmarking, policy application, human–AI decision-making, and evidence for secure deployment. Research findings and deployment authorizations remain distinct decisions.
Our people
The work requires more than model expertise. It calls for engineers who understand operating systems, researchers who challenge their own evidence, and mission specialists who know what happens when a decision reaches the real world. Dr. Benjamin Harvey brings experience across national security, applied data science, and enterprise AI.
