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live · 2026-09-21 project by orbital with Steve Coy(CEO), Philip Vafiadis(board chair), Zane Dodson(implementation lead), Ross Tieman(affiliate researcher)

TimeLike Systems

A platform for what its makers call simulation-enabled cooperative human intelligence: people encode causal models of a real problem and use simulation to find near-optimal actions, rather than asking a language model for an answer.

open the piece at timelike.systems →

A company site, read today. TimeLike Systems describes a platform "designed to help human beings find near-optimal solutions to complex and consequential real-world problems", implementing what it calls SECHI, simulation-enabled cooperative human intelligence, with a built-in model of time, space, causality and physics. The site states a patent pending (WO2024092244) and a five-minute talk at a Foresight Institute event in 2024. From the text: "Unlike most other forms of AI, TimeLike does not provide, nor rely upon, it's own algorithms for machine learning." The spelling is the site's.

Not stated: pricing, launch date, customers, deployment. Why it is here: the same bet as the desk, that a shared model beats a shared argument, made as a product.

claims it answers

  • “TimeLike is the first and only AI platform we know of that has been expressly designed to support cooperative model-based decision-making at scale.”

Real public claims, adjudicated on the piece itself, not here.

sources
1 named on the piece
topics
simulation, decision-making, AI
orgs
TimeLike Systems