About James KC Auchterlonie

James KC Auchterlonie builds systems for regulated and offline AI deployment. He is the creator of AdapterOS, a runtime for deterministic inference and cryptographically verifiable execution receipts. His work focuses on token-level audit trails and canonical serialization. Based in Wichita, he bridges the gap between engineering reality and procurement compliance for government-facing technical projects.

Current status: Recent patent filing for deterministic inference receipts.

Technical Themes

Determinism as a primary product requirement.
Design of cryptographically verifiable execution receipts.
Focus on token-level audit trails.
Canonical serialization as a first-class constraint.
Modern hashing and derivation: BLAKE3, HKDF-SHA256.
Fixed-point / Q15 constraints to eliminate numeric drift.
Accountable adapter routing and MoE gating decisions.
Priority for offline and regulated deployments.

Implementation Posture

I build runtimes. I do not just train models.
Inference must be replayable and evidence-backed.
Version-locked artifacts and reproducible builds are standard.
Strict environment separation: dev, prod, and archive.
Full-stack engineering: Rust, Axum, and infrastructure-as-code.

Operational Capability

Homelab-to-production deployment workflows.
Automated infrastructure management via Terraform.
Local proxy layers and Cloudflare tunnel ingress.
Audit-ready systems mapping to procurement requirements.

Strategic Motion

Patent application filed for deterministic inference receipts.
Direct focus on government-facing applied research.
Narrative centered on regulated trust over consumer hype.
Technical translation between engineering and compliance.

Style

Explicit structure prioritized over general aesthetics.
Traceable reasoning and deterministic outputs.
Systems built for hostile verification.
Anchor-audit-rectify operational loops.

Timeline

Founder

MLNavigator Inc.

Founder

AuchShop LLC

Textron Aviation

2019-2022

Bombardier

2023

CTI

2024-2025