Furnace lit · ML foundry

Raw data in.Trained models out.

Managed compute for training, serving, data pipelines, and generative rendering — every dataset, run, and artifact owned by the entity that paid for it.

Book furnace time →Walk the line

epoch0 / 40

loss2.418

holdout gateheating

The line, from charge to cast.

Every artifact walks the same floor — and leaves with its lineage stamped on it.

Charge

dataset v14 · verified

Melt

Train in a Crucible with fixed resources, checkpoints, and preemption recovery.

8×GPU · ckpt / 500 steps

Temper

Holdout and safety evaluations must pass before anything can be promoted.

gate: pass · reviewer signs

Cast

The approved Artifact goes to serving behind a canary, with per-entity quotas.

canary 5% → 100%

What the foundry casts.

The compute plane for teams that would rather ship models than manage clusters.

Plate A · compute

Distributed training

Train at production scale with checkpointing, preemption recovery, and experiment tracking.

Plate B · serving

Model serving

Autoscaled inference with canary rollouts and quotas per entity.

Plate C · data

Data pipelines

Prepare, version, and validate training and live data in the same place.

Plate D · render

Generative rendering

Reproducible 3D and media rendering from a seed and a manifest.

Plate E · gates

Evaluation gates

Holdout and safety checks block promotion until they pass and a person approves.

Plate F · lineage

Lineage

Every artifact traces back to its data, code, parameters, and approver.

Every crucible holds its own pour.

Compute is organized like a foundry. The Crucible — one workload — is where collaborators and quotas are granted, so nothing pours into another entity's mould.

Commons

Foundry

The shared compute surface.

Entity

Works

One entity's datasets, budgets, and policies.

Output

Artifact

A finished model, dataset, or render.

The smiths.

Forge-gods and fire-tenders — Smelt's personas schedule, test, harden, and promote. Each works under an Idio identity scoped to one Works.

Ilmarinen

Finnish

sampo_smith Forged the Sampo — the machine that grinds out value; the anchor seat

Ogun / Ogou

Yoruba/Vodou

iron_orisha Iron, tools, and the road — hard paths, performance-critical casting

Goibniu

Irish

unfailing_smith The smith whose work never fails — the artifact that keeps working

Kothar-wa-Khasis

Ugaritic

skilled_and_wise_forge 'Skilled-and-Wise' — the precision seat; the god whose name is a spec

Soslan

Caucasian (Nart)

forge_tempered Tempered in the forge — the QA seat; survives production heat

Zarabanda

Palo (Congo)

bond_breaker Breaks all bonds — the adversarial/test seat

Gu

Fon/Dahomey

metal_father 'He of the metal' — the raw-material seat

Hephaestus

Greek

forge_master The smith of Olympus — the classic foundry patron

Tvashtr

Vedic

bolt_forger Forged Indra's thunderbolt — weapon-grade artifacts

Khnum

Egyptian

wheel_shaper Forms beings on the wheel — hyperparameters as clay

Prometheus

Greek

fire_bringer Stole fire — technology transfer to entities that couldn't reach the heat

Ilmarinen

Finnish

sampo_smith Forged the Sampo — the machine that grinds out value; the anchor seat

Ogun / Ogou

Yoruba/Vodou

iron_orisha Iron, tools, and the road — hard paths, performance-critical casting

Goibniu

Irish

unfailing_smith The smith whose work never fails — the artifact that keeps working

Kothar-wa-Khasis

Ugaritic

skilled_and_wise_forge 'Skilled-and-Wise' — the precision seat; the god whose name is a spec

Soslan

Caucasian (Nart)

forge_tempered Tempered in the forge — the QA seat; survives production heat

Zarabanda

Palo (Congo)

bond_breaker Breaks all bonds — the adversarial/test seat

Gu

Fon/Dahomey

metal_father 'He of the metal' — the raw-material seat

Hephaestus

Greek

forge_master The smith of Olympus — the classic foundry patron

Tvashtr

Vedic

bolt_forger Forged Indra's thunderbolt — weapon-grade artifacts

Khnum

Egyptian

wheel_shaper Forms beings on the wheel — hyperparameters as clay

Prometheus

Greek

fire_bringer Stole fire — technology transfer to entities that couldn't reach the heat

Assay certificate.

The same identity, policy, provenance, and consent controls run under every Colossal Capital product.

ASSAYED
& MARKED

AI provenanceEvery AI-assisted result in Smelt is disclosed and traceable — which persona acted, which model ran, on whose authority, from which sources.
Built for AI regulationTransparency notices, human oversight, risk documentation, and audit logs designed to support EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, and NIST AI RMF / ISO/IEC 42001 programs.
Private by designEntity-scoped storage, data minimization, encryption in transit and at rest, and GDPR / CCPA-CPRA request handling. Customer data never trains a shared model without opt-in.
Fine-grained provisioningIdio SSO over SAML and OIDC, entity context, role and attribute policy, and a named, scoped, revocable identity for every agent.
Humans at the gateConsequential actions wait for an eligible approver, and every decision lands in an exportable audit trail.

Private models, at the scope you choose — nothing rolls up on its own.

UserOne researcher's training preferences
ContentOne dataset or Artifact
EntityOne entity's private models
OrganizationAn organization's approved corpora

Customer datasets and weights are never pooled; ecosystem learning is a separate, opt-in contribution path. Shared ecosystem learning is a separate, sanitized, opt-in path. AI transparency notice.

Furnace time

Forge models without building the forge.

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