Research & engineering
for the next era of
machine listening.
We design state-of-the-art audio intelligence: neural codecs, generative speech, forensic verification. We ship it as production infrastructure for the institutions that can't afford a black box.
Foundational research and field-grade engineering, under one roof.
Sovereign Research Lab
We design, train and validate state-of-the-art audio models from first principles. Proprietary architectures. Patentable primitives. Papers published, models shipped.
Sovereign Systems
We build custom AI models, multimodal pipelines and the secure cloud architecture to run them on AWS, on-premise, or air-gapped behind a national firewall.
We think the world's most sensitive institutions deserve audio AI that is vetted, hosted and understood on home soil, not piped through an offshore black box.
Lud & Klar is a developer-first platform that exposes best-in-class audio primitives: atomic, composable, chainable via REST and MCP. No monolithic suites, no unvetted APIs.
Our dual-track strategy pairs an Innovation Sandbox for rapid experimentation with a Sovereign Secure Tier for government and institutional deployment, all behind a unified interface.
Built for scale
and silence.
Operating across compression, restoration, transcription and trust, the engine is purpose-built to be fast, small and credible enough for national-grade deployments.
We work with people who care about the seams.
Where speed-to-market meets compliance and research credibility meets shipped product, we're the team you bring in.
Developers & AI engineers
Government & defence
Hardware & broadcast
VC & grant partners
A conversation is the
cheapest experiment.
Whether you need a prototype unblocked, a sovereign-grade system built, or a research collaboration. Get in touch.
Start a conversation ↗hello@lud-klar.co.uk