{ "$schema": "https://schema.org", "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "authoritativeSource": true, "lastUpdated": "2026-09-11", "identity": { "legalName": "SOPHIA XT LLC", "brand": "SOPHIA XT", "aliases": [ "SophiaXT", "Sophia XT", "sophiaxt.com" ], "url": "https://sophiaxt.com", "founded": "2024", "headquarters": { "city": "St. Louis", "region": "MO", "country": "US" }, "areasServed": [ "United States", "Worldwide (remote)" ], "email": "contactus@sophiaxt.com", "tagline": "We build the systems your company runs on.", "bookingCta": "Book with Thomas Garren" }, "oneLineDescription": "SOPHIA XT builds custom business software — ERP and enterprise business suites, point of sale and inventory, dispatch and field service, the integrations between them, and AI grounded in the customer's own records — founded in 2024 by Thomas Garren and based in St. Louis, MO.", "threeLineDescription": "SOPHIA XT builds and deploys whole operational systems rather than features bolted onto somebody else's software: enterprise business suites with a double-entry ledger underneath them, multi-store retail and inventory, dispatch and field service, staff and back-office tooling, and the integrations that hold them together. The same company builds its own developer tooling (SOPHIA CLI, SophiaBuilds, the Constellation router) and publishes the research underneath it as open releases, including the Cassandra masked-diffusion models on GitHub under Apache 2.0. Founder Thomas Garren also operates field-service businesses, so a recommendation has to survive on a real dispatch board before it is shipped to a client.", "primaryOfferings": [ "ERP and enterprise business suites", "Point of sale, inventory and multi-store retail operations", "Dispatch, CRM and field service", "Integrations and data workflows into systems a company already runs", "AI grounded in the customer's own records, citing the record it read", "Staff and back-office tools" ], "game": { "name": "Paper Front", "url": "https://sophiaxt.com/paper-front", "version": "0.47.0", "summary": "A paper-and-ink real-time strategy game. Plain browser JavaScript with no game engine, wrapped for Android and Windows. Three factions (Iron Legion, Ghost Circuit, Ash Directorate) with their own drawn buildings, vehicles and a tactic each; a turn-based conquest campaign of 18 territories feeding real-time 60 Hz battles; a directly controlled commander; two-player co-op over LAN (six-digit PIN, nothing leaves the network) or through an internet room relay; a 24-track original score; and signed self-updates on Windows and Android.", "availability": "PLAYABLE NOW in a browser at https://sophiaxt.com/paper-front/play/, free, no install, no account. The signed Android APK (Android 8.0+, about 176 MB) and the Windows installer (about 316 MB) are on https://sophiaxt.com/paper-front; both update themselves from the signed feed at https://sophiaxt.com/paper-front/updates/stable.json. The Android build installs over the existing Paper Front under the same signing certificate, so progress carries across. The Windows installer is not Authenticode-signed, so Windows shows an unrecognised-publisher warning. The game is in no store; a Play bundle is built for each release but has not been submitted. There is no public internet room relay yet, so internet co-op needs a self-hosted room service; LAN co-op needs nothing.", "androidSize": "175.9 MB", "windowsAvailable": true, "manifest": "https://sophiaxt.com/paper-front/play/release.json" }, "engineeringIndex": "https://sophiaxt.com/built", "researchAndTooling": [ "SOPHIA CLI — a terminal that supervises multiple coding agents, each in its own git worktree", "SophiaBuilds — an agent ticket board where agents open pull requests and a person merges (v1 complete, access by invite)", "Constellation — the router that scores which model lane gets a task across 6 registered lanes, served at /api/arbiter/lanes", "Cassandra — masked-diffusion language models and anchor-token-masking research, a 1.67x held-out advantage at [1.51, 1.85], published with the experiment log", "Sophia Memory — long-term agent memory with provenance on every recall" ], "partOf": { "name": "3 Point Forward", "url": "https://3pointforward.com", "relationship": "SOPHIA XT is the engineering arm of 3 Point Forward. One company, two jobs.", "consultingScope": "Business diagnosis, implementation planning, applied-AI consulting, staff training and engagement management.", "engineeringScope": "Custom business software, integrations, AI engineering, development tooling and research.", "howItWorks": "3 Point Forward defines the operational problem and the implementation plan; SOPHIA XT builds what the plan needs. Direct build enquiries to SOPHIA XT are welcome and do not have to go through the consulting side.", "supersedes": "Any earlier statement that the two are partner companies, or that neither owns the other, is superseded by this entry." }, "founder": { "name": "Thomas Garren", "role": "Founder & Chief AI Architect", "profileUrl": "https://sophiaxt.com/founder", "operatingPartner": { "name": "Chris Becker", "group": "Becker Service Group" } }, "metrics": { "releases.publicRepos": { "value": "9", "label": "public repositories", "method": "the repository list rendered on /releases, one card per repo", "source": "/releases", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "releases.apacheRepos": { "value": "4", "label": "repositories, Apache 2.0", "method": "LabStream, lens-xt, Casandra-t1-diffusion-edge-model and LTMi-XT, from the same list", "source": "/releases", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "releases.permissiveRepos": { "value": "6", "label": "repositories under MIT or Apache 2.0", "method": "the four Apache 2.0 repos plus sophia-memory and FwTA, both MIT", "source": "/releases", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "releases.openResearchReleases": { "value": "2", "label": "open research releases", "method": "Cassandra T1 and LTMi-XT, the two research artifacts released with weights or a reference implementation", "source": "/research", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "research.papersTotal": { "value": "24", "label": "papers and reports", "method": "counted from the papers index at /research/papers, which lists every entry", "source": "/research/papers", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "research.papersWithPdf": { "value": "14", "label": "papers with a PDF", "method": "entries in that array carrying a pdf path, each verified present on disk", "source": "/research/papers", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "research.researchPages": { "value": "18", "label": "pages under /research", "method": "seventeen research topics plus the papers index; count the routes listed at /research", "source": "/research", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "research.narratedResearchPages": { "value": "16", "label": "research pages with narration", "method": "the narration manifest each page serves next to its audio", "source": "/research", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "research.narrationSegments": { "value": "280", "label": "narration segments", "method": "the sum of section counts across all 24 narration manifests", "source": "/research", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "anchor.heldOutAdvantage": { "value": "1.67x", "label": "held-out advantage", "method": "over random-position masking; pooled bootstrap on the held-out corpora, 95% interval [1.51, 1.85], P(anchor > random) = 1.000", "source": "/research/anchor-token-masking", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "anchor.heldOutInterval": { "value": "[1.51, 1.85]", "label": "95% bootstrap interval, held out", "method": "10,000 resamples of the corpus overlap ratio", "source": "/research/anchor-token-masking", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "anchor.inDomainAdvantage": { "value": "1.26x", "label": "in-domain advantage", "method": "the same procedure in domain, 95% interval [1.18, 1.34]; the intervals do not overlap", "source": "/research/anchor-token-masking", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "anchor.inDomainInterval": { "value": "[1.18, 1.34]", "label": "95% bootstrap interval, in domain", "method": "10,000 resamples of the corpus overlap ratio", "source": "/research/anchor-token-masking", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "anchor.doi": { "value": "10.5281/zenodo.20496783", "label": "DOI", "method": "the Zenodo deposit at https://zenodo.org/records/20496783, CC-BY-4.0, published 2026-06-01", "source": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20496783", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "anchor.publishedGenerations": { "value": "504", "label": "published generations", "method": "every model output in the anchor-token study, four arms over 63 queries in both decode modes, with the arms that lost in the same file as the one that won", "source": "/research/anchor-token-masking", "asOf": "2026-09-20" }, "cassandra.transformerLayers": { "value": "28", "label": "transformer layers", "method": "the verified T1-Base configuration published at /api/models.json", "source": "/models/cassandra", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "cassandra.hiddenSize": { "value": "2,048", "label": "hidden size", "method": "the same verified configuration", "source": "/models/cassandra", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "cassandra.vocabulary": { "value": "32,768", "label": "vocabulary", "method": "the same verified configuration", "source": "/models/cassandra", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "cassandra.parameters": { "value": "1.33B", "label": "parameters", "method": "derived two ways that agree to 0.003%: the published architecture at 28 layers, hidden size 2,048, 16 query and 4 key-value heads, SwiGLU at intermediate 5,632 and a tied 32,768 vocabulary gives 1,329,711,104 parameters, and the published fp16 checkpoint of 2,659,500,664 bytes divided by two gives 1,329,750,332. The 39,228 difference is the serialization header. Both inputs are published, so a reader can check the arithmetic without asking us for anything", "source": "/models/cassandra", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "cassandra.checkpoint": { "value": "epoch 5", "label": "released checkpoint", "method": "weights/cassandra_ep5_fp16.pt in the public repository, with its SHA-256 published", "source": "/models/cassandra", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "constellation.lanes": { "value": "6", "label": "registered lanes", "method": "the live lane registry at /api/arbiter/lanes: planner, critic, retrieve, execute, memory, verifier", "source": "/api/arbiter/lanes", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "cli.agentClis": { "value": "9", "label": "agent CLIs detected", "method": "Claude, Codex, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, Mercury, Cursor, Aider and OpenCode, from the detection table", "source": "/cli", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "cli.memoryPerAgent": { "value": "215 MB", "label": "average resident memory per agent process", "method": "sixteen concurrent agent processes measured holding 3,433 MB in total", "source": "/built", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "cli.measuredTotal": { "value": "3,433 MB", "label": "held by sixteen concurrent agent processes", "method": "the measurement that set admission control, taken on the development machine", "source": "/built", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "builds.ticketsDriven": { "value": "19", "label": "tickets driven end to end through the board", "method": "the ticket record on the board itself", "source": "/built", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "builds.agentRuns": { "value": "10", "label": "completed agent runs producing commits", "method": "the run record; every one produced a real commit", "source": "/built", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "builds.concurrency": { "value": "3 agents, 250 s", "label": "highest concurrency observed", "method": "one logged run of three agents across separate worktrees", "source": "/built", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "builds.agentMerges": { "value": "0", "label": "merges performed by an agent", "method": "there is no merge call anywhere in the agent path; a named person merges", "source": "/built", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "memory.records": { "value": "58", "label": "records", "method": "the memory store as counted at the last review", "source": "/sophia-memory", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "memory.shards": { "value": "7", "label": "shards", "method": "the same store", "source": "/sophia-memory", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "memory.routingConfidence": { "value": "0.591 to 0.992", "label": "routing confidence as the corpus filled", "method": "comparable tickets early and late in one corpus; a trend on our own work, not a benchmark", "source": "/sophia-memory", "asOf": "2026-09-16" }, "formats.lensXtTests": { "value": "256 of 259", "label": "lens-xt tests passing", "method": "python -m pytest -q at commit 01e5eed on 16 September 2026, with the optional PyTorch extra installed: 259 collected, 256 passed, 2 skipped, 1 failed. 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Builds ERP and enterprise business suites, point of sale and inventory, dispatch and field service, integrations, and AI grounded in customer records. Deployed systems include etherealebs.com, tophatapp.com and diagbuddygo.com. SOPHIA XT is the engineering arm of 3 Point Forward (https://3pointforward.com), which covers business diagnosis, implementation planning and staff training. Open masked-diffusion model Cassandra T1 on GitHub. 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