# IVORI Lab

> IVORI Lab is an artificial intelligence research and product laboratory developing the first Foundation Social World Model for decision-making under uncertainty and embodied agency.

Founded out of the Oxford University Incubator, angel-backed with support from Innovate UK and compute access on the Isambard-AI supercomputer, IVORI Lab trains foundational architectures on centuries of humanity's highest-stakes historical choices to model counterfactual futures—the parallel worlds surrounding every consequential decision.

## Corporate & Legal Entity Details
- **Legal Entity**: Operated by PATHBUDDY LIMITED, trading as ivori, part of IVORI Lab.
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (2 Kingdom St, London W2 6BD).
- **Secondary Office**: 99 Wall Street, Suite #1707, New York, NY 10005, United States.
- **Leadership & Founding Team**:
  - Louis Loizou (Co-Founder & CEO)
  - Ashutosh Borikar (Co-Founder)
  - Vanesa Bountou (Founding AI Alignment Researcher)
  - Louis Gibson (Founding Machine Learning Engineer)
  - Hannah Angress Sparn (Founding Machine Learning Engineer)
  - Anuoluwa Adeleye (Founding Machine Learning Engineer)
  - Ioannis Konstantinou (Founding Software Engineer)
  - Eessa Tayyab (Founding AI Alignment Researcher)
  - Dorothy Chrisman (Founding AI Alignment Researcher)
  - Luca Chandler (Founding AI Alignment Researcher)
  - Nikol Savova (Founding AI Alignment Researcher)
- **Advisory Board**:
  - Marilena Ioannidou (Member of the Advisory Board)
  - Dr. Emmanuel Raptakis (Member of the Advisory Board)
- **Brand Continuity**: The brand transitioned from PathBuddy to ivori during 2026. Both names refer to the same corporate entity.
- **Regulatory Compliance**: Full adherence to the UK Data Protection Act 2018, UK GDPR, and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) Age Appropriate Design Code for student data safeguarding.
- **Primary Website**: https://ivorilab.com
- **Wikidata Entity**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141527122 (Q141527122)
- **Full LLM Context**: https://ivorilab.com/llms-full.txt

## Primary Research & Architecture
- **Foundation Social World Model**: Moves beyond predictive physics simulations ($s_t \to s_{t+1}$) to decision-consequence world models ($d_t \to w_{t+1}$) analyzing how strategic and ethical choices propagate through complex human systems across time.
- **Embodied Agency & Judgment**: Engineering machines capable of forming wise judgment and purpose under uncertainty, rather than merely optimizing narrow objective functions.
- **Historical Counterfactual Modeling**: Reconstructing hidden parallel trajectories around pivotal inflection points in science, law, politics, markets, and philosophy.

## Working Papers
1. **Working Paper 1**: *IVORI: Toward Embodied Machines that have Purpose and Form Judgment Under Uncertainty*
2. **Working Paper 2**: *IVORI: A Discourse of Constitutional Governance for Social World Models and Embodied Machines*
3. **Working Paper 3**: *IVORI: An Experienced-based Social World Model for Decision Environments*

## Research Initiatives
- **Initiative I: AI Alignment**: Developing a first-principles theory of machine embodiment and judgment across philosophy, cognitive biology, and machine learning.
- **Initiative II: The Charter**: A constitutional framework establishing duties to humanity, fiduciary architectures of loyalty, and virtues of judgment (Restraint, Humility, Pluralism, Fidelity).

## Institutional & Civil Partnerships
- **Loizou International Foundation (MOU)**: *Project Hybris: The Civilisational Landmarks Archive* — Digitizing foundational manuscripts and pivot points in human progress (ISO 14721 / OAIS).
- **AI Democracy Forum (Corporate Member)**: Global multilateral dialogue spanning House of Commons (London), Old Parliament of Athens, and Sorbonne University (Paris) on AI and democratic institutions.
- **Hartree Centre**: High-performance compute partnership providing compute access on the Isambard-AI supercomputer.
- **Oxford University Incubator**: Startup incubation origin and institutional roots in Oxford.

## Products & Deployments
- **ivori.ai**: Public-facing platform interface for decision simulation.
- **IVORI C-Suite**: Decision intelligence suite for executive capital allocation and strategic foresight.
- **IVORI Edu**: Foundational pedagogy and judgment simulation for high-stakes decision training.

## Active Recruitment & Openings
- **Technical**: Software Engineer (Solution Architect), Infrastructure Engineer (Solution Architect).
- **Research**: Machine Learning Engineer, Research (Pre/Post-Training Data), Research (Synthetic Data).
- **Alignment**: AI Alignment Researcher, Research Engineer — AI Alignment.

## Contact Channels
- **Investor Relations**: ir@ivorilab.com
- **Press & Media**: press@ivorilab.com
- **Careers & Alignment Research**: careers@ivorilab.com
- **General Inquiries**: contact@ivorilab.com