Whitepaper · Q2 2026 Embedded anomaly detection · Bare-metal · 8,480 bytes

Telemetry talks.
Flynn listens.

Flynn is an embedded anomaly detector that turns equipment telemetry into usable local intelligence. It runs on bare-metal in 8,480 bytes, self-calibrates from normal behavior, and delivers deterministic, auditable detection for machines, tools, and edge systems where cloud-first AI latency is too high, too opaque, or unavailable.

FLYNN · MCU-EMBEDDED · STREAM 01
SR · 1 kHz
Phase LEARNING
Sample 0000
Threshold
State CALIBRATING
BEARING VIBRATION PUMP CAVITATION MOTOR PHASE DRIFT ELECTRICAL BUS THERMAL ENVELOPE PRESSURE FLOW TIMING AMBIENT SUB-SEA DEEP SPACE BEARING VIBRATION PUMP CAVITATION MOTOR PHASE DRIFT ELECTRICAL BUS THERMAL ENVELOPE PRESSURE FLOW TIMING AMBIENT SUB-SEA DEEP SPACE
The Problem

Equipment talks in telemetry. Most of it goes unheard.

From sub-sea to deep-space, equipment talks in telemetry. Vibration, current, temperature, pressure, flow, timing. The signals are there. The local, deterministic, auditable early detection rarely is — a detector small enough to embed, smart enough to self-calibrate, and reliable enough to act on without a cloud stack, a labeled dataset, or an ML team behind it.

01

Non-local intelligence

Telemetry exists. A detector you can trust close to the source does not. The decision lives far from the action it informs.

02

No labels, no joy

Supervised approaches demand labeled failure data. Most equipment is designed not to fail. The training set does not exist.

03

Cloud can't reach

Most consequential equipment lives where the cloud doesn't. A cloud-dependent detector is a detector that doesn't work.

04

Can't embed

Tools built for dashboards do not belong in firmware. Too large, too dynamic, too dependent on external services.


Flynn's Differential

Industrial-grade, zero-latency, local anomaly detection.

Designed from first principles for MCU-class hardware, for enterprise-scale deployments. The numbers below are entry conditions.

Footprint
8,480bytes

Not 8 GB or 8 MB — eight thousand four hundred and eighty bytes. Fits on the MCU already inside the equipment.

Calibration
1,700samples

Self-calibrates from normal behavior in under two seconds at kilohertz-class rates. No labels. No tuning.

Heap allocations
0

Zero dynamic memory allocation after init. Hard requirement for safety-critical firmware — achieved by design.

Source files
1

The entire detector is a single human-readable C source file. No model blob, no binary, no opaque runtime.

False positives
0/ 120 h

Zero false positives across 120 hours of bearing-class soak. Bounded above 0.025/hr at 95% confidence.

Behaviour
Bit-identical

Deterministic across runs and silicon. Replayable. Auditable. Eligible for safety-certified voting architectures.

The signal dominates at the moment of conflict. The prior persists. The two never share the wire.


How Flynn works

Learn & detect. Fire & forget.

Install. Deploy. Walk away. After 1,700 samples, the threshold is locked — and an alert from Flynn means a real and sustained departure from the conditions present at installation.

Phase 01 · Learning

Observe nominal. Lock-in thresholds.

For the first 1,700 samples after deployment, Flynn observes the signal without producing alerts. It accumulates a statistical model of the signal's normal behavior — variability, autocorrelation, distribution shape, dynamical character — and commits a conservative detection threshold.

Phase 02 · Detection

Zero-latency, real-time sampling.

Every subsequent sample passes through the detection pipeline and is scored against the calibrated model. The locked threshold refuses adaptive drift by construction: a slow-developing fault cannot be quietly absorbed into the new normal.


Validated across domains

One binary. Infinite domains. Zero configuration.

Five-domain validation on the same binary and works across signal domains that share no domain assumptions.

Bearing vibration
CWRU benchmark · 27 fault pairs · standard operating point
Precision0.988
F10.829
Recall0.996
Tandem mode (single compile flag): precision 0.972 · recall 0.996.
Run-to-failure
30+ days continuous · 4 bearings · 8 channels · NASA IMS Bearing dataset
Lead time3–4 d
False alarms0
Identified the two failing bearings ahead of documented failure. The healthy bearings remained silent.
Ambient & diurnal
336 hours · temperature, environmental, process-control signals
FP / hour0.074–0.080
Operationally compatible with shift-cycle review — a small number of alerts per day, reviewable within normal rhythm.
Electrical grid stability
10,000 instances · 12 features
F10.532
Same source, same flags, no per-domain configuration.
Soak · synthetic vibration
120 hours · 5 seeds × 24 hours
False positives0
95% CI bound<0.025/h
On normal-operation bearing traces: zero false positives across 1.2M samples.
See the full validation set

The Flynn roadmap

From neuron to nervous system.

Each stage is buildable and useful on its own. Each is composable with what comes next. The structural-separation property propagates through every layer.

Stage 01 · The neuron
Today · shipping

One signal in. One score out.

Deployable today as embedded firmware. Validated across five domains. Ready for production integration into industrial equipment.

Stage 02 · The spinal cord
2026 · pilots engaging

Coordinate detectors per asset.

Three to ten Flynn detectors across one asset, with a fabric node maintaining operational-regime memory. Detector layer remains authoritative.

Stage 03 · The nervous system
Multi-year

A facility-wide distributed cognition.

Reflex-class response. Cerebellar memory of operational regimes. Cortical decisions across the site. Forensic replay back to any moment.


Engagement

Three ways in.

From a single sensor on an engineer's bench to a thousand-asset fleet in an air-gapped facility. Specific terms are formalized through direct conversation.

Evaluation

No cost

For developers, researchers, and innovation groups testing Flynn against their own data.

  • Source-level audit rights
  • Bounded scope, time-limited
  • NDA on request
  • Direct engineering contact
Request access

Enterprise

Deployment-scale

For operators deploying Flynn across fleets, retrofit or new-build, on or off network.

  • Source access & certification
  • Custom integration tooling
  • Compliance documentation
  • Multi-year support contracts
Talk to engineering
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Next steps

Get in like Flynn.

Evaluation access, OEM licensing, enterprise deployment — every engagement starts with a direct conversation. We don't sell you a thing and walk away. We sell you a thing that keeps working when you need it to, for as long as you need it to.

Evaluation license
Free, bounded scope. Source audit rights included.
OEM & Integrator
Commercial license, per-unit royalty, integration support.
Enterprise deployment
Direct support, compliance packages, multi-year terms.
Architectural brief
Source-level walkthrough of the structural-separation property.