Dianoetic

Dianoetic  /  διανοητικός — of thought

Welcome to Dianoetic.

Where thought takes form.

We're building an AI system that treats reasoning as the product, not a side effect. Dianoetic brings models, tools and memory together so that answers are worked out, not just produced.

Try Dianoetic Why we're building it

01 — Why

Most AI tools are built to answer quickly. We think the more interesting problem is answering well — knowing what's being asked, noticing what's missing, and showing how a conclusion was reached.

The word dianoetic comes from Greek philosophy. It describes discursive thought: the kind that moves step by step from what you know to what follows from it. That's the standard we're holding ourselves to. Not a chatbot with a personality, but a system that reasons in the open, admits uncertainty, and gets more useful as the work gets harder.

We're starting small, and saying so. There is no foundation model trained in a basement here. What there is: a clear idea of what thinking software should feel like, and a plan to build it piece by piece.

02 — Intelligence

No single model is best at everything. Dianoetic is designed as an orchestration layer: it decides how a problem should be approached, then brings in the right model, tool or source for each part.

  1. Route

    Model routing

    Fast models for simple questions, stronger reasoning models when a problem calls for depth. Open models from several providers, with fallbacks when one is unavailable.

  2. Reason

    Reasoning modes

    Quick answers, careful step-by-step analysis, or research that plans, checks and revises before replying. You choose how much thought a question deserves.

  3. Act

    Tools and agents

    Search, calculation, code and retrieval, used when they help and left alone when they don't.

  4. Recall

    Memory and knowledge

    Context that carries across conversations, and retrieval over your own documents, so the system builds on what it already knows.

Products

Dianoetic AI
Conversation, research, writing and everyday coding help.
Dianoetic Code
Builds complete files and scripts, not snippets. Especially strong in C#.

The Dianoetic family

Oriel 1.0
Our strongest model, for deep reasoning and serious code.
Fable 1.0
Creative and general-purpose, for writing, ideas and conversation.
Canto 1.0
Fast and light, for everyday questions.

03 — In progress

Dianoetic is being built in public, one layer at a time. Here's where things actually stand.

  • Now

    Identity and foundation. The site, the visual language, and the architecture everything else will sit on.

  • Next

    Orchestration core. A server-side router across open model providers, with our own system prompts and automatic fallback.

  • Then

    Reasoning modes and tools. Multi-step reasoning, web search and code execution, with the working visible to you.

  • Later

    Memory, evaluation, and our own data. Measuring what works, collecting better examples, and fine-tuning when resources allow.

No papers yet. When we publish something, it will be because there's something worth reading.

04 — Developers

The same system will be available through an API. One endpoint, a choice of reasoning modes, and routing handled for you. 

# Preview — the API is not live yet
curl https://dianoetic.tech/v1/chat \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIANOETIC_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "product": "code",
    "model": "oriel-1.0",
    "mode": "careful",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "A C# rate limiter for ASP.NET Core" }]
  }'
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