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

Equipment talks.
Flynn listens.

Flynn is software that lives on existing MCU-class equipment. Observing sensor data in real-time, it catches developing issues before they cascade into catastrophe. 8,480 bytes of zero-latency, MCU-class, real-time equipment anomaly detection with zero-weight SWaP-C footprint.

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

Tools were adopted. Downtime increased.

Equipment failure costs the Fortune 500 $1.4 trillion a year — up 62% since 2019. 58% of teams now run AI-powered predictive tools; 79% saw unplanned downtime hold steady or rise.

01

Alert fatigue

Cloud tools cry wolf. After multiple false alarms, operators ignore the real one. Flynn raises zero false positives across 120 hours of healthy data.

02

Adaptive drift

Cloud tools update “normal” as conditions change, absorbing a slow fault into the new baseline. Flynn locks its baseline on day one.

03

Implementation barrier

Significant equipment and infrastructure investments, 6–18 months of data collection, data labeling, long-term consulting engagements. Flynn enrolls on existing hardware in as little as two seconds — zero pretraining, no labeled data required.

04

Interval gap

Scheduled inspections miss 30–40% of failures that develop between visits. Flynn observes equipment telemetry in real-time, with zero latency.


Flynn's Differential

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

Near-zero SWaP-C footprint Size, Weight, Power, Cost — for embedded, aerospace, defense, orbital, and deep-space applications.
Size
8,480 B

Fits existing MCU flash — not 8 MB, not 8 GB.

Weight
Zero

Software on the chip already there. No new board, sensor, or radio.

Power
Bare-metal

Integer-only, zero heap. Runs inside the existing power envelope.

Cost
<$10

Runs on silicon you already ship.

Footprint
8,480bytes

Eight thousand four hundred and eighty bytes — not 8 MB, not 8 GB. Flynn fits on the microcontroller native to your equipment.

Calibration
1,700samples

Learns normal behavior in 1,700 samples — under two seconds at kilohertz rates — then locks. No labels, no tuning.

Heap allocations
0

Zero dynamic allocation after initialization. Safety-critical firmware forbids the heap; Flynn meets that rule by construction.

Delivery
Binary

Flynn ships as a compact binary, compiled for your hardware. Deterministic and verifiable against published test vectors; full source available to certifying authorities under NDA.

False positives
0/ 120 h

Zero false positives across 120 hours of soak testing, with a 95%-confidence ceiling of 0.025 per hour.

Behaviour
Bit-identical

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

Samples required for complete enrollment will vary by equipment type, state, and operational envelope.

Flynn enrolls on existing hardware in as little as two seconds — zero pretraining, no labeled data required.


How Flynn works

Learn & detect. Fire & forget.

Install. Deploy. Walk away. Once the equipment’s normal operating envelope is learned, every alert marks a real, sustained departure from the conditions at installation — turning a $94,000 emergency replacement into an $800 planned swap.

Phase 01 · Learning

Observe nominal. Lock-in thresholds.

Post enrollment, Flynn watches in silence. It builds a statistical model of normal behavior — variance, autocorrelation, distribution shape, dynamics — and commits the nominal operational envelope.

Phase 02 · Detection

Zero-latency, real-time detection.

Equipment telemetry is tracked against Flynn's learned operational envelope in real-time. Flynn signals alerts when equipment begins to trend toward the bounds of its learned envelope. Then again, when the thresholds are breached, signalling imminent equipment failure in advance of the event.


Validated across domains

One binary. All domains.

One binary, validated across five signal domains that share no common assumptions. Flynn’s capabilities are industry agnostic. Where there is telemetry, Flynn translates it into actionable intelligence.

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 time~17 d
False alarms0
Flagged both failing bearings ahead of documented failure; the healthy pair stayed silent.
Ambient & diurnal
336 hours · temperature, environmental, process-control signals
FP / hour0.074–0.080
Fewer than two alerts a day — reviewable on a normal shift cycle.
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.

In updated-build testing, the healthy-bearing channels carried a faint signal that tracked the failing bearings — accelerometer cross-talk from the failing channels, not an independent fault. We report it as correlated cross-talk rather than a false positive. See validation for detail.

See the full validation set

The Flynn roadmap

From neuron to nervous system.

Flynn instances stand on their own and can be composed into more complex, intelligent systems.

Stage 01 · The neuron
Today · shipping

Signal in.
Intelligence out.

Shipping today, Flynn is a binary deployable on-device, validated on synthetic and real-world data sets, ready for production pilot programs.

Stage 02 · The deterministic, auditable, neural network
2026 · pilots engaging

Vertical and horizontal composition.

Compose multiple instances of Flynn into a fabric effecting maximum equipment intelligence, for self-correcting, self-managing systems.

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 paths.

From one sensor on an engineer's bench to a thousand-asset fleet behind an air gap. Let's connect.

Evaluation

No cost

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

  • Bounded scope, time-limited
  • NDA required
  • Direct engineering contact
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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
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Next steps

Get in like Flynn.

Evaluation access, OEM licensing, enterprise deployment — every engagement begins with a conversation. We support what we ship, for as long as you run it.

Evaluation license
Consulting engagement, bounded scope.
OEM & Integrator
Commercial license, per-unit royalty, integration support.
Enterprise deployment
Direct support, compliance packages, multi-year terms.
Architectural brief
A walkthrough of the structural-separation property and more are available in the whitepaper.