About TaoQ AI

Who we are

TaoQ AI is an independent AI engineering firm. We design and build AI systems that stay under your control, work with any model, and show what they cost and deliver.

Independent means that we have no partnership or reseller arrangement with any model vendor, cloud or platform. What we recommend is chosen for your situation, and we design so the model can be swapped.

Our view in one line: models are becoming a commodity, and what you build around them decides whether AI works, stays under control and pays off. The point of view sets out the argument.

How we operate

TaoQ AI is founder-led. Every engagement is led by our founder, Leone Lage Perdigão, from the first call to handover. We design the system and write the code with your engineers, in your repository, so your team can run the system without us.

Each engagement is quoted after the first call. Fees are fixed where the scope allows, and nothing auto-renews. How engagements are set up, and how we handle your data, code and IP, is described on Working with us.

The firm is a sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak), registered in the Netherlands as taoq.ai and trading as TaoQ AI and TaoQ AI Labs.

Labs

TaoQ AI Labs is where we publish research, open-source tools and writing. We created and maintain Ziran, an open-source tool that tests AI agents for security flaws, and we contribute to NVIDIA Garak and Hugging Face Transformers. More on Labs.

The name

Tao is "the way". Q is the Q-function from reinforcement learning, the value of taking the right action, and quantum, where our research is heading.