Multi-agent systems & retrieval pipelines
Agent swarms with bounded tool access, retrieval over private document sets, output guardrails and evaluation harnesses that measure correctness before a system reaches production.
Empowering Autonomy
Augmented Ingenuity
TICNES AI develops digital assets for the future of intelligence. We build applied artificial intelligence, data science systems and information-security engineering that execute real work — and leave the decisions with the people accountable for them.
Technical Pillars
Three disciplines, one engineering standard
Predictive analytics & signal processing
Forecasting, classification and Portuguese-language text measurement built on real operational data, with reporting shaped for the people who have to act on it.
Zero-trust architecture & applied cryptography
Least-privilege access design, sandboxed execution for autonomous workloads, TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-GCM-256 at rest and post-quantum key planning for long-lived records.
Platforms & Initiatives
Products operating under ticnes.ai
Each platform is an independent application on its own subdomain, addressing one concrete problem for one identifiable audience.
Scholarship Hackathon 2026
A scholarship programme for university students run as an open competition, with published criteria, evaluated submissions and disbursed awards.
Open platform →Photo Vault
A local-first desktop photo library with on-device vision captioning, EXIF-aware metadata and folder-scoped full-text search. Images stay on your machine.
Open platform →Student AI Tutor
A study assistant that works through problems step by step in Portuguese or English, built for the bandwidth realities of local learners.
Open platform →Q-Mvutu
An intelligent social-research engine that classifies Portuguese-language public opinion into sentiment and theme distributions rather than raw keyword counts.
Open platform →LGT-AO
An assistant for the Angolan General Labour Law (Lei n.º 12/23) that locates the governing article, quotes it and explains the obligation in plain language.
Open platform →TICNES AI BootCamp
Practical automation training for small and medium businesses: finding the tasks worth automating and keeping the result working afterwards.
Open platform →Our Mission
Bridging human creativity and autonomous execution
Founded in 2015 by systems engineers working on multi-agent coordination, TICNES AI builds software that absorbs repetitive operational work and returns judgement to the people responsible for it. Twenty-plus systems deployed, six live platforms, and a standing rule across all of them: automation proposes, a named human authorises.
Engineering Insights & Case Studies
Technical publications & architecture notes
In-depth engineering articles and production case studies documenting how we build and secure applied AI, Lusophone retrieval pipelines and local-first software.
Designing Bounded Multi-Agent Systems for Enterprise Operations
Why unconstrained autonomous loops fail in production, and how state-machine graphs, bounded tool contracts and human checkpoints ensure reliability.
Read article →Building High-Precision RAG Pipelines for Portuguese & Angolan Legal Corpora
Hierarchical AST parsing, hybrid BM25 + dense vector search and deterministic quote verification for statutory texts.
Read article →Zero-Trust Security and WebAssembly Sandboxing for Autonomous AI Workloads
Isolating untrusted code execution and preventing indirect prompt injection via capability-based WebAssembly sandboxes.
Read article →LGT-AO: Angolan General Labour Law (Lei n.º 12/23) Compliance
How we engineered a citation-grounded legal compliance assistant for HR teams and workers in Angola.
Read case study →Q-Mvutu: Conversational Survey & Lusophone Sentiment Engine
Replacing static questionnaires with adaptive inquiry flows and real-time aspect-based sentiment analysis.
Read case study →TICNES Photo Vault: On-Device Multimodal Embeddings
Sub-180ms natural-language photo search using local vision transformers and AES-256 zero-knowledge storage.
Read case study →Browse all 16 technical articles and production case studies →