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Independent AI technology and research

AI for a life beyond the screen.

We’re building Vinci: AI products and models designed to help people get useful work done with less supervision, clearer costs, and greater control.

Independent AI engineering, software and research. Built by SimpleDirect.

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Vinci by SimpleDirectA Vero illustration · conceptual scene

More freedom. Less to manage.

The purpose of AI is to give you more say in how you spend your time. Vinci is our unified product direction, built around three simple ideas.

01

Freedom to delegate.

Give useful work a clear purpose. Our goal is to remove unnecessary supervision, so you can turn your attention elsewhere.

02

Clarity as work unfolds.

Understand what happened, what still needs attention, and what it cost. A reported success should be backed by a result you can inspect.

03

Your decisions stay yours.

Review outcomes, set limits, and decide what happens next. Human judgment and responsibility remain part of the process.

These principles guide what we build. Each release has its own documented capabilities and limits.

Next for Vinci · in development

Start the work. Make room for life.

We’re building Vinci for work you can hand over without handing away control. Start on your computer, let a useful task move forward independently, and check in from your phone.

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A Vero illustration · conceptual scene

The experience we’re working toward

  1. Give the work a clear goal.

    Ask Vinci to investigate a bug and prepare a fix. Set the scope, the budget, and the decisions you want to keep.

  2. Close the laptop. Go live your day.

    The goal is for work to continue on its own machine, with a clear account of progress and a way to ask for your attention when it matters.

  3. Pick up where the work leaves off.

    Review the proposed change, its checks, and what it cost from your phone. Decide what happens next.

This cross-device experience is in development. We’re working toward a small, controlled alpha; no public launch date is announced.

Use Vinci today

Start with something real.

For developers, technical founders, and small engineering teams: software to try, models to explore, and public work to inspect.

Public beta

Vinci Code CLI

A developer-facing coding agent with orchestration capabilities. Bring your own provider credentials, read the documentation, and review the source. Vinci-managed authentication and inference are under maintenance.

Released open weights

Vinci Models

Explore MLE, Cyber, and our earlier model releases. Read each model card for its intended use, licence, evidence, and limitations.

New · Vinci MLE 1.0

AI for the work of building AI.

8B, 30B and 123B · Open-weight research models

123B · Open weights · Devstral 2 · Mistral Modified MIT
Explore Vinci MLE
AI for organizations

AI on your terms.

Build a model for your use case. Run open-weight AI on dedicated GPUs. Help shape how Vinci comes into your organization.

Explore business solutions
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Results that can be examined.

We study AI-model behaviour and the reliability of the tests used to judge it. Technical reports preserve methods, trade-offs, corrections, and negative findings.

Read the full research record
The people behind Vinci

An independent company. A human purpose.

SimpleDirect builds software, engineers AI systems, and publishes research. We want technology to demand less of your life—and leave more of it up to you.