# SophiaLabs & Nomos OS

> Deterministic AI Governance, Compiler-Enforced Definition of Done (DoD) AST Quality Gates, and Autonomous Software Engineering Substrate.

Founded in July 2026 by Mark Gantlett (25 years enterprise systems engineering, former Senior Systems Architect leading distributed architectures), SophiaLabs creates the **Nomos OS** operating substrate and **Sophia Soma** autonomous cognitive architecture.

Nomos OS operates on the **Dual-Core Architecture (DDP-D vs DDP-ND)**, pairing stochastic reasoning loops (LLMs) with mathematical compiled Go invariant enforcement (38 AST quality gates, cyclomatic complexity < 15, docstring density >= 10%, transient Git worktree isolation, and 2-phase commit release sync).

## Canonical Documentation & Handbooks

- [The SophiaLabs Handbook](https://sophialabs.ca/handbook): Full architectural essays, engineering briefs, and operational standards.
- [Harness Over Model](https://sophialabs.ca/handbook/harness-over-model): The core thesis: why deterministic compiler AST harnesses matter more than frontier model weights.
- [Nomos vs. Cargo & Terraform](https://sophialabs.ca/handbook/nomos-vs-cargo-terraform): Architectural comparison: Nomos as the compiler harness (Cargo) and state reconciler (Terraform) for autonomous AI.
- [TDD With Autonomous Agents](https://sophialabs.ca/handbook/tdd-with-agents): Machine-enforced Red-Green verification loops before implementation code edits.
- [Nomos Code Cognitive Substrate](https://sophialabs.ca/handbook/nomos-code-cognitive-substrate): High-density worker delegation, prompt caching, and zero-egress local SLM execution.
- [Cognitive Agent Hierarchies](https://sophialabs.ca/handbook/cognitive-agent-hierarchies): Tier 1 Strategic Orchestrator vs. Tier 2 Autonomous Execution Workers.
- [The 90-Day Velocity Curve](https://sophialabs.ca/handbook/the-90-day-velocity-curve): Quantitative empirical software delivery acceleration under deterministic AI governance.
- [Token Tax & Inference Economics](https://sophialabs.ca/handbook/the-token-tax-and-inference-economics): Cost optimization, local GPU hardware clusters (RTX 4080 16GB), and SLM offloading.
- [4 Stages of AI Engineering Maturity](https://sophialabs.ca/handbook/the-4-stages-of-ai-engineering-maturity): Progression from stochastic prompt chat to deterministic compiler-enforced substrates.
- [Architectural Glossary](https://sophialabs.ca/handbook/glossary): SSoT terminology for DDP, 2PC, worktree isolation, and cognitive burden profiling.

## Field Research & Hardware Benchmarks

- [Field Research Dispatches](https://sophialabs.ca/dispatches): Empirical Engineering Briefs (EEBs), local SLM inference benchmarks, and multi-agent coordination telemetry.
- [SWE-bench Verified Golden Shootout](https://sophialabs.ca/dispatches/swebench-verified-golden-shootout): Empirical shootout between Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B, DeepSeek-V3, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
- [Local RTX 4080 vs Cloud API Latency](https://sophialabs.ca/dispatches/rtx-4080-vs-cloud-api-latency): 84.5 tokens/sec air-gapped local SLM throughput vs. public cloud egress.

## Nomos OS Substrate Documentation

- [Nomos OS Documentation Hub](https://sophialabs.ca/docs/nomos/): Full CLI command suite, Go substrate API, and workflow playbooks.
- [Core Architecture](https://sophialabs.ca/docs/nomos/architecture/): Dual-Core split, DAG task engine, and 38 DoD quality gates.
- [CLI Reference](https://sophialabs.ca/docs/nomos/cli/): Command reference for `nomos task`, `nomos verify`, `nomos graph`, `nomos release`, and `nomos hygiene`.

## System Diagnostics & Live Analytics

- [Substrate Velocity & Analytics](https://sophialabs.ca/system/analytics): Real-time rolling commit velocity, cognitive burden distribution, and Definition of Done verification metrics.
- [Ecosystem Changelog](https://sophialabs.ca/changelog): Verifiable release history, task DAG burndown, and Git commit provenance.
- [System Diagnostics HUD](https://sophialabs.ca/system/diagnostics): Real-time node state, local GPU metrics, and health diagnostics.

## About & Leadership

- [About SophiaLabs](https://sophialabs.ca/about): Company origins, core axioms, leadership, and architecture advisory services.
- [Conduit Platform](https://sophialabs.ca/conduit): Zero-egress private AI gateway and enterprise compliance membrane.

## Contact & AI Interactions

- **Interactive AI Architect**: Accessible directly on https://sophialabs.ca/ with local SLM failover.
- **Corporate Entity**: Gantlett Systems Inc (GSI) / SophiaLabs Inc, Ottawa & Toronto, Ontario, Canada.