Team
Who is building Galahad
A small team with big energy. Combining our experience to go after something ambitious.
Sietse Schelpe
CEO — Deep Systems & Science
Leads product vision, bare-metal C++ architecture, and formal verification (Z3, Lean). Author of the four arXiv papers behind the Galahad harness.
Toon Colson
CSO — Sales & Partnerships
Seven years of B2B sales experience. Proven track record driving enterprise revenue growth and strategic partnerships.
Marloes Decraemer
CPO — Product & Go-To-Market
Translates deep systems research into deployable enterprise products. Owns design partners and customer onboarding.
Advisors
- Gwen le Tiran, PhD — Head of R&D Group at Saint-Gobain
- Irene Balmes, PhD — Lead Data Scientist at Kynaps
Published research
- arXiv:2609.39358 Working Around the Compute Ceiling: Byte-Exact Memory in Galahad Makes LLM Reading a One-Time Cost October 2026
- arXiv:2607.23806 A Frozen 12B Beats Frontier Models on Verified Work: 100% Accuracy, 0 Tokens, Bit-Exact, Forever July 2026
- arXiv:2607.14431 Smarter and Cheaper at Once: Byte-Exact KV-Cache Grafting Turns a Frozen Small Model into a Verified-Knowledge Flywheel July 2026
- arXiv:2605.09990 Merlin: Deterministic Byte-Exact Deduplication for Lossless Context Optimization in Large Language Model Inference May 2026
- arXiv:2605.09611 Byte-Exact Deduplication in Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Three-Regime Empirical Analysis Across Public Benchmarks May 2026