Iconsoft LLC · Research & Consulting

AI that
actually holds up
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Since 1998 · OGI Framework · Executive Gater · navi-SAD

Still here. That should tell you something.

Iconsoft started in 1998—back when “IT” meant keeping things from catching fire and building what you couldn’t afford to buy. Beige boxes, loose cables, and one machine nobody touched but everything depended on.

We’ve worked through every cycle since—dot-com, cloud, and now AI—and the work hasn’t changed as much as people think.

Systems still break in the same places. Users still just want it to work. And most of the value is still in making things less wrong.

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What is the Executive Gater?
Publications & Code
arXiv · IEEE SysCon 2024
Creating Scalable AGI: The Open General Intelligence Framework
arXiv:2411.15832 — Dollinger & Singleton
Zenodo · 2025
OGI Mathematical Foundations Formalization
IEEE SysCon 2026 · In preparation
Modular Cognitive Architecture Scaling & Spectral Attention Analysis
Singleton & Spence · Halifax, NS
GitHub
OGI Math Foundations Repository

Framework

The OGI Architecture

Specialized modules coordinated through an attention-based Executive Gater — reducing inter-module communication from O(N²) to O(K²+N) with proven Lipschitz stability across the full system.

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Executive Gater
Controls which modules activate and communicate. Routes signals through Top-K attention selection, enforcing computational bounds while maintaining system coherence across the full module graph.
Active development
02
OGI Fabric
Inter-module message passing layer. CD-PDE integration shows 30–300× tighter attractor convergence than GRU baseline. Spatial beta_b variation under active investigation.
Phase 2 active
03
navi-SAD Observer
Spectral Attention Divergence instrument by Nelson Spence. Sits as an impartial observer within the Gater, measuring routing stability and detecting attention drift in real time.
Integrated
04
GRU Module Layer
Contractive GRU mappings provide bounded state transitions within each cognitive module. Proven contractive under Lemma 4.2 across multiple random seeds.
Validated
05
MI-Driven Routing
Mutual information maximization guides module selection. Lemma 4.1 establishes that Top-K routing preserves task-relevant information under capacity constraints.
Validated
06
Stability Proofs
Theorem 1 (Lipschitz stability) and Theorem 3 (Top-K complexity reduction) validated across multiple random seeds. Full formalization published on Zenodo.
Published
Theorem 1
Lipschitz Stability
OGI with contractive GRU modules and bounded gating produces Lipschitz-stable trajectories. Validated across multiple random seeds.
Theorem 3
Top-K Complexity Reduction
Top-K attention gating reduces inter-module communication from O(N²) to O(K²+N). For N=100, K=5: 9,900 connections → ~600.
Lemma 4.1
MI-Driven Routing
Mutual information maximization in module selection preserves task-relevant signal under Top-K capacity constraints.
Lemma 4.2
GRU Contractive Mapping
GRU module transitions satisfy the contraction mapping condition required for system-level Lipschitz stability guarantees.

Services

Fractional CTO & AI Strategy

Since 1998, Iconsoft has lived through the white-box era, the dot-com run-up, the bust, SaaS, cloud, and now AI. Available as fractional CTO for organizations that need sober technical judgment, not theater.

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AI Architecture & Strategy
From LLM integration to custom cognitive systems. Practical guidance on what to build, what to buy, and what to avoid — grounded in active research, not vendor pitch decks.
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Fractional CTO
Senior technical leadership without the full-time overhead. Engineering team structure, roadmap development, technical due diligence, and board-level communication that actually lands.
03
M365 & Enterprise AI
Copilot deployment, SharePoint architecture, Teams governance, Azure integration. Operational experience across defense, healthcare, and nonprofit sectors.

Collaborators

Research Team

The OGI framework is developed through active collaboration across AI architecture, applied mathematics, and dynamical systems.

MS
Michael Singleton
Founder · Iconsoft LLC
Founder of Iconsoft LLC, operating since 1998. Fractional CTO and AI strategist. M.S. Applied Mathematics, MIT. Former USAF pilot, 21st Special Operations Squadron. Co-developer of the OGI framework and active researcher on the Executive Gater and OGI Fabric.
DD
Daniel Dollinger
OGI Co-Author
Co-developer of the original OGI framework. Co-author of arXiv:2411.15832, presented at IEEE SysCon 2024.
NS
Nelson Spence
Project-Navi · navi-SAD
Developer of the navi-SAD (Spectral Attention Divergence) instrument. Collaborating on dynamical systems formalization, CD PDE framing, and OGI Math Foundations. Co-author, SysCon 2026 submission.

Research Demo

Prompt Clarity Engine

Does your prompt mean what you think it means? Predicate-conditioned affordance geometry detects when intervening language captures the relational field before the object arrives.

From the paper Words Are Not Containers — Singleton, M. · Corten Research · 2026

Contact

Research inquiries & consulting

If you need real research, sober technical judgment, or somebody who has seen three hype cycles already—reach out directly. No funnels. No intake theater. Just the work.