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Syzygy Rosetta is pre-output governance middleware for AI systems. Current safety tools operate reactively at the output layer. Rosetta intercepts at the interaction layer, before generation — using a hybrid architecture: deterministic policy rules form the constitutional enforcement floor, while semantic and heuristic evaluation handles contextual nuance. No probabilistic drift can override hard invariants. Built for multi-model enterprise deployments where interaction failure, not output failure, is the primary liability.
Goal: Complete high-load latency stress-testing and adversarial jailbreak testing of Syzygy Rosetta v1.1’s hybrid architecture — specifically the deterministic policy layer and its interaction with semantic/heuristic backends. We will run structured compute trials across multi-model API configurations and commission a security researcher to attempt systematic bypass of both the deterministic rules and the coherence evaluation logic. Deliverable: published stress-test report and updated invariant set.
~$20K compute costs for high-load latency testing across multi-model configurations; ~$15K security researcher contract (adversarial jailbreak scenarios targeting both deterministic and semantic layers); ~$10K lead developer time for iteration and documentation. All spending reported in weekly public updates.
Sarasha Elion (founder, Trivian Institute 501c3) — 14+ months cross-platform AI governance research, MFA, 20+ years contemplative/somatic practice informing relational AI design. Faiyaz (lead developer) — architecture and implementation of the full Rosetta stack including FastAPI middleware, policy pack inheritance system, and hybrid deterministic/semantic evaluation pipeline. Meili Liang (ML Risk Engineer) — validated Rosetta across 21 structured attack scenarios.
Primary risk: latency-safety tradeoff — the deterministic policy layer plus semantic evaluation introduces overhead that may be impractical at enterprise scale. Secondary risk: adversarial testing reveals gaps where probabilistic backends can be manipulated to circumvent deterministic floors. Outcome if failed: findings published openly as negative results; the governance gap remains documented for future builders.
$0 external funding to date. Self-funded research phase through Trivian Institute. This Manifund application is the first external capital raise, intended as bridge funding while NSF and foundation applications are in review.