Runtime Research
Browser execution, WebAssembly, rendering and deterministic systems. Explore portability, replay and the boundary between a document and an executable application.
Browser runtimes · WASM · Rendering
Research & Experimental
Engineering Labs
Research areas and experiments that inform our engineering work. These are not a catalogue of production-ready products: a prototype, an experiment and a supported delivery have different requirements.
Edge Computing
Distributed state and local/edge architectures. Explore synchronisation, disconnected operation and the tradeoffs between latency, consistency and complexity.
Edge runtimes · State · Queues
AI Systems
Local inference, semantic retrieval and document intelligence. Study how generated results can be validated and combined with deterministic processing.
Local AI · Retrieval · Documents
Developer Infrastructure
Observation, validation, reproducibility and autonomous tooling. Explore how browser and runtime evidence can make technical changes easier to inspect and verify.
Diagnostics · Validation · Tooling
Mobile Systems
Android native runtimes, network policy and GPU/compute experiments. Explore the boundaries between application code, native components and device resources.
Android · Kotlin / JNI · GPU / Compute
From experiment to delivery
An experiment only becomes a delivery candidate after its scope, limitations, security model, validation and operational ownership are understood. Production suitability is assessed for the specific project, not inferred from a demo.
Northerd is the commercial engineering partner. NortherCodes is the separate code, project and R&D platform: a place to explore technical work, not a replacement for a scoped customer delivery.
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