AI has a problem. We've fixed it logically.

Literal Labs makes it possible to deploy powerful AI without GPUs, without data centres, and without sacrificing accuracy. Our training platform, ModelMill, produces Logic-Based Networks: a fundamentally different class of AI that is fast, energy-efficient, explainable, and deterministic.

Today's AI is expensive, power-hungry, and difficult to trust. Deploying it at the edge — in an industrial sensor, a vehicle, a water network — demands hardware most operators don't have. And when a model does make a decision, it frequently cannot say why. In regulated industries, that is not a footnote. It is a barrier.

Literal Labs was founded to solve all three problems at once. Not by optimising existing AI, but by replacing the algorithm entirely.

The result is Logic-Based Networks. Trained through ModelMill, LBNs run on any 32-bit processor without GPUs, without data centres, and without compromise on accuracy. They are fast, energy-efficient, inherently explainable, and fully deterministic. The same input always yields the same output.

Spun out of Newcastle University in 2023, Literal Labs is on a mission to be the world leader in compute and energy-efficient AI.

Behind Literal Labs

Our leadership team

Literal Labs brings together world-class expertise across AI research, semiconductor design, and enterprise technology. Every member of our leadership team has built, shipped, or scaled technology at the frontier of their field. And all are united by a single conviction: that AI must work for everyone and every industry, not just for those with the infrastructure to support it. If you share that conviction, explore our careers page.
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Noel Hurley
Chief Executive Officer
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Leon Fedden
Chief Technology Officer
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Mike Park
Chief Financial Officer
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Daniel P Dykes
Head of Product

Our advisors & board members

Behind Literal Labs stands a group of advisors and board members whose experience spans the world's leading semiconductor companies and the frontier of Tsetlin Machine research. Their guidance shapes both our technology roadmap and our commercial strategy.
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Jim Darragh
Non-Executive Chairman
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Professor Ole-Christoffer Granmo
Technical Steering Committee, Chair
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Jem Davies
Non-Executive Director
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Kelvin Harrison
Board Observer
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Esha Vatsa
Partner, Mercuri
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George Mensah
Principal, SVV
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Khadija Ashfaq
Partner, Northern Gritstone

Our supporters

Building a new class of AI takes more than research. It takes visionary backers who understand what is at stake. We are grateful to the investors and collaborators whose support makes ModelMill and Logic-Based Networks possible.
Cambridge Future Tech have invested in Literal Labs
Mercuri has invested in Literal Labs
Literal Labs is supported by Newcastle University in the United Kingdom
Literal Labs is supported by Northern Gritstone
Silicon Catalyst UK supports Literal Labs
SVV, formerly Sure Valley Ventures, has invested in Literal Labs