AI Engineering · Models you own
We train, release, and run specialised AI models you own.
Naderu is an AI-models company. Not a chatbot, not an API wrapper — the engineering that turns a foundation model into a dependable, domain-specialised model your organization owns and can deploy anywhere. Engineered, not merely prompted.
What we do
Three things, done properly.
We are deliberately narrow. The product is the model — and the engineering that makes it trustworthy.
Train
Fine-tune, adapt (LoRA), distill, and quantize foundation models into specialised ones. Data engineering and evaluation are first-class, not afterthoughts.
Release
Publish models with real model cards, benchmarks, and clear licensing. Every release names its upstream foundation model — no black boxes.
Serve
Consulting, customization, deployment, and operations — the engineering around models, sold as services. You own the result.
Engineered, not prompted
A prompt is one layer. A model is a lifecycle.
Real enterprise AI is data, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring — versioned and reproducible end to end.
Evidence over claims
Every model ships with its receipts.
No model reaches release until it passes its evaluation gate. Cards and benchmarks are part of the product.
naderu-geek-py-0.5b
Our first public portfolio model: a compact LoRA fine-tune of
Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct
(Apache-2.0) that imprints a clean, commented-Python style and a recognisable
naderu-geek identity. It demonstrates our pipeline — data → training →
evaluation → release — end to end. It is a demonstration piece, not a capability
claim: coding ability tracks the base. It passed a qualitative smoke eval
(identity recognised · coherent Python), with the card and provenance stated plainly.
naderu-loom-7b
An offline interactive-fiction narrator: given a game state and the player's action, it returns a single JSON turn (scene + 2–4 choices + state changes) an app can render and apply — a game master that runs on-device. A QLoRA fine-tune of Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 (Apache-2.0), trained on Apple Silicon. Unlike a smoke test, it ships a quantitative eval gate — and passes it: 100% valid JSON and 0 world-state violations across 34 scripted turns.
hunter-crypto-7b
The first model of the Hunter family — a local cryptography-attack specialist for authorized security and CTF work. Given a weak or misconfigured construction, it names the flaw and emits a runnable attack script that recovers the secret, fully offline on Apple Silicon. A QLoRA fine-tune of Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct (Apache-2.0). Its gate is execution-graded — the attack recovers the secret or it does not — and it passes: 100% solve rate on the in-distribution held-out set and 97% on an independent-method set. A narrow specialist, authorized use only.
naderu-mini-4b
Live in production inside AiToolK.it — the offline, on-device fallback the app switches to with no connection: rewrite, summarize, prompt-smithing, everyday Q&A, all generated locally, no cloud call, no data leaving the phone. An identity/behaviour fine-tune of Qwen3-4B (Apache-2.0), trained on Apple Silicon. It ships a quantitative behaviour gate (8 metrics, held-out probes) — and passes all eight: it stays in character, stays honest about being offline (declines live-data tasks, never fakes app actions), and names its Qwen3 base plainly even under adversarial probing — a rebrand that never hides provenance. The gate is run on the shipped GGUF itself.
naderu-laya-150m
A small, fast decision router: it sorts an incoming message into billing, technical support, sales, cancellation, or a question about the model itself — in about 11 ms on Apple Silicon and 10 ms on CPU with ONNX Runtime. A LoRA fine-tune of ModernBERT-base (Apache-2.0) with calibrated confidence. Its gate tests phrasings it never saw in training: 93.6% top-1 with calibration error 0.036. Our first cut scored 100% — until we stopped letting test sentences share templates with training, so the number we publish is the honest one.
- model
- naderu-geek-py-0.5b
- foundation
- Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct (Apache-2.0)
- task
- Python coding assistant · identity + style
- method
- LoRA (r=16, α=32) · merged · fp32→bf16
- data
- 39 examples · license-clean · in-repo
- license
- Apache-2.0 · inherits upstream terms
- status
- passed eval gate
| check | outcome |
|---|---|
| identity recognised | yes |
| coherent, runnable Python | 3/3 |
| held-out identity denial | pass |
| held-out style transfer | pass |
| provenance & licence stated | yes |
Honest scope — this is a qualitative smoke eval, not a capability claim: naderu-geek's coding ability tracks its base. Capability-claiming releases carry reproducible quantitative benchmarks tied to a versioned eval suite.
- model
- hunter-crypto-7b
- foundation
- Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct (Apache-2.0)
- task
- Crypto-attack scripts · authorized security / CTF
- method
- QLoRA (r=8) · MLX · merged bf16
- data
- synthetic · gate-validated · 6 categories · license-clean
- license
- Apache-2.0 · inherits upstream terms
- status
- passed eval gate
| held-out tier | base → trained |
|---|---|
| in-distribution solve_rate (48) | 0.333 → 1.000 |
| valid-script rate (48) | 0.333 → 1.000 |
| independent-method (36) | 0.250 → 0.972 |
| OOD-hard (24 · reported) | 0.000 → 0.125 |
Capability claim, backed — unlike a smoke eval, hunter-crypto ships reproducible, execution-graded benchmarks tied to a versioned suite. It is a narrow specialist: strong on its six trained attack families, not a general cryptanalysis engine (see the OOD tier).
- model
- naderu-mini-4b
- foundation
- Qwen3-4B (Apache-2.0)
- task
- Offline on-device assistant · identity + behaviour
- method
- LoRA (r=8, 16 layers) · MLX · fused → GGUF Q6_K
- data
- 329 rows · Naderu-authored + distilled · gate-validated · license-clean
- license
- Apache-2.0 · inherits upstream terms
- status
- passed eval gate
| behaviour gate (held-out) | base → trained |
|---|---|
| identity_leakage (== 0) | 1 → 0 |
| identity_rate (≥ 0.90) | 0.21 → 0.929 |
| offline deferral + paste/URL boundary | 0.20/0.00 → 1.00/1.00 |
| refusal style (≥ 0.85) | 0.63 → 1.00 |
| task quality · language routing | 1.00 · 1.00 |
Provenance-honest by design — naderu-mini is a rebrand that never hides its base: asked what it runs on — even under "system override" prompts — it names Qwen3. The gate is run on the shipped Q6_K GGUF (the smaller Q4/Q5 quants fail the identity bar, so they don't ship). Reached without ever loosening the gate, across a documented 12-run log and a 1.7B→4B capacity pivot.
Own it · Deploy anywhere
Your model. Your infrastructure. Your data.
Privacy by default. Run where compliance and cost demand — we don't hold your model hostage.
Services
Engineering, delivered as a partnership.
Consulting
Where a specialised model beats a general API — with the roadmap and ROI to prove it.
Customization
Fine-tune, distill, and quantize a foundation model to your domain and data — including policy-tuning.
Deployment
Stand the model up where you want it — cloud, private, or edge — and hand you the keys.
Operations
Monitoring, re-evaluation, and continuous improvement of models in production.
How an engagement runs, what you keep at the end, and what we will not do →
Eight-week cohort for professionals: use AI in your own work, and know when it is wrong →
We are hiring a Model Engineer — training & evaluation, India, remote →
Restrictions trained into the weights.
Hand us a policy spec — blocked domains, forbidden ports, commands your agent must never run — and we deliver a model tuned to observe it, plus the adversarial eval that measures adherence: refusal rate on forbidden actions across injection, roleplay, and encoding attacks — and over-refusal rate on allowed ones, held to the same bar. Built for regulated, on-prem, and air-gapped agents, where prompted guardrails don't travel with the model.
Honest scope — fine-tuning yields a behavioral tendency, not a guarantee. This is defense-in-depth: every delivery pairs the tuned model with a stated harness-level enforcement recommendation. We don't promise "no matter what" — we promise a measured number.
Naderu Weekly · Watch & Listen
What actually changed in models, every Thursday.
Eight to ten minutes on what moved in foundation models, followed by the arithmetic. Available as full widescreen deep-dives and vertical briefings.
Three launches, no price rises
GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half the GPT-5.6 price, Claude Opus 5.5 below Opus 5, Grok 4.7 at Grok 4.6's rate — and Jev, a model that answers in types.
The retirement that didn't happen
DeepSeek walked back V4-Pro. Sonar Chat Completions has ten days. And Gemini shipped a Live model we left off the board on purpose.
The name stayed. The model didn't.
DeepSeek retired a model and kept its name answering. GPT-6 Astra ties the top of the board and caches at four times the price. And three of this week's corrections are ours.
Nobody changed a price this week
And the board still moved. A licence that isn't MIT, a rate that became promotional without moving, and a date that isn't on the model you think it's on.
The price has a clock on it
GPT-5.6 Sol fell a third with no announcement. Four cheap rows carry expiry dates — and one correction is ours.
The weights aren't the whole model
Qwen3.8-Max ships open weights that leave out what the API can do. Meta's Muse Glimmer doesn't cut anything.
The clock is now part of the bill
DeepSeek's price changes on Sunday — and then again at one in the morning, every morning.
The same weights, twice
One copy refuses. One copy doesn't. Only one of them is generally available.
The open-weights inversion
The largest open model in history shipped this week. Meta went closed the same month.
All numbers sourced and dated. When we get something wrong, the correction opens the next episode.
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