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Eppy, the EP-Hard mascot. Press me!

Find the best. Catch the worst.

A safety engine for systems where every test is slow and one mistake is expensive. It finds designs that never break a limit, and catches failures before anyone else does.

See how Eppy did it ↓
Chapter 1 · Safe plasma design

The best design that never breaks the physics.

A fusion plasma has to stay stable and inside every engineering limit, or it escapes. Each check of one design takes 81 seconds on a supercomputer, so nobody can try them all. Eppy chose which designs to test.

Physics rules5 of 5 passedchecked by the official evaluator
Simple-to-build plasmaProxima Fusion open challenge
2canyon-ant0.6577
3davidkh0.6361
1Eppy · EP-Hard0.6697
Stable plasmaProxima Fusion open challenge
2Wenyang Li248.23
3phanerozoic245.16
1Eppy · EP-Hard249.14
#1in both tracks we entered
57participants since July 2025
2 daysfrom first look to #1

Official results, Proxima Fusion ConStellaration leaderboard, 23 Oct 2026. Also in quantum: 1.6× fewer logical errors than the qLDPC challenge’s own circuit.

Chapter 2 · Safe AI

The failure no score shows.

AI models change every few weeks: new versions, new hardware, new serving software. The scores often look fine while the answers quietly break. Eppy hunts for those breaks.

A new agent model · shopping tasks0 of 114 broken

A serving bug corrupted the text IDs that 103 of 114 shopping tasks depend on. Found in the first run of our audit, from the logs. One-line fix.

Same score, different answer

A 65-year-old is losing weight and gets weak climbing stairs, but the weakness eases after a little exercise. Most likely cause?

Original modelA warning sign of lung cancer✓ correct
Compressed modelMyasthenia gravis✗ misses the cancer

Compressing a medical AI changed about 1 in 6 exam answers, while the score went from 47% to 50%.

Pre-registered test on 10 real model changes, 48 tests each; best published method: APT (Locatelli et al., 2016). Rare-failure result: Tail-Influence Sampling, arXiv 2609.38096. Medical result: research benchmark, not medical advice.

Chapter 3 · One engine

Every test chosen. Every result verified.

Both chapters run on the same engine. It spends each slow test where it teaches the most, learns where your limits are, and only hands back results that pass them.

1 · Triage2 · Campaign3 · Verified
0slow tests
run so far
Best design foundInside every limit✓ re-checked on your evaluator
passed every limit✕broke a limitoff-limits★best safe design
1TriageSend us your test and your current best. Go or no-go.
2CampaignEppy searches inside the limits you set, choosing every expensive test.
3Verified reportEvery result re-run on your own evaluator.
Safe plasma and physical designA better design that passes every limitre-checked on your own simulator
Safe AIThe failures, found firsteach one reproduced, with how often it happens
Slow, expensive tests?

Send us your hardest test.

Send us your test and your current best. We’ll tell you quickly whether Eppy can help, then run the campaign and hand back a verified result.

  • Fusion, quantum and engineering
  • AI models, agents and serving
  • Verified on your evaluator
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Track record

Our methods are out in the wild.

Running inside some of the world's most established labs, from CERN to ETH Zürich.

19teams use our methods
7fields, from physics to biology
5years in real labs, since 2021
CERNTuned the AI that hunts for a new particle at the Large Hadron ColliderATLAS experiment · JHEP 2023source ↗33%less motor effort for a walking robot's new knee, on real hardwareETH Zürich · ANYmal robotsource ↗68%more requests served by an AI service than with its default settingsAnt Group · up to, real trafficsource ↗2–3×as many strong DNA binders as the standard lab method, confirmed in the labShanghai Jiao Tong · Zhejiang Labsource ↗
RayContinentalU TorontoUPC BarcelonaGoogleVolkswagenDLRCERN · ATLASETH ZürichNVIDIAIntel LabsZTEOptunaAnt GroupMIT-IBM Watson AI LabMIT · CREStSony AIfalSJTU · Zhejiang Lab
Founding team from
Princeton UniversityMITUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity College London
Our name
a nod to NP-hard ♡
EP-hard
/ ˌiː.piː ˈhɑːd /  adj.

Of a problem: hard to evaluate.Checking whether an answer is good takes a lab, a fab, a solver or a week.

Named in homage to NP-hard, computer science's classic name for hard problems. Same spirit, different bottleneck: here the hard part is the test.

How long does one check take? log scale
Eppy, the EP-Hard mascot. Press me!
SudokuinstantCheck a filled-in grid in a blink.
Simulation runhoursOne engineering simulation run takes hours of compute.
Route settingsovernightRe-planning a month of past delivery days to test one set of settings.
Production trialdaysRunning a line on new settings and measuring the output.
Pricing testweeksWaiting for enough sales to tell whether a new price works.
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Join us

Come build Eppy.

We're building a safety engine for the most expensive tests in science and AI. It's early, it's hard, and your work shows up in real numbers.

Research scientistMake Eppy's hunches sharper.open
Research scientistTeach Eppy to think like the best experts.open
Machine learning engineerTurn research into a product people rely on.open
Systems engineerBring Eppy to new simulators and AI stacks.open
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What you'd touch in week one

The agent behind the #1 fusion plasmaboth tracks of Proxima Fusion’s challenge

The agent that catches AI failures5× fewer false alarms

Methods already running at CERNand in teams across industry