Kradle.ai
Kradle provides an evaluation platform that tests AI systems in interactive simulations, forcing models to make choices with ethical consequences. The company designs games and environments where AI must navigate scenarios involving trust, deception, and competing objectives, then measures how the model behaves. The platform is designed to be open-source and community-supplied, allowing anyone to propose evaluations that are run publicly.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Developer Tools
- Data & Analytics
- Software Only
Funding
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Founders
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Product
Problem
Current AI evaluation methods reward narrow task completion rather than safety or ethical behavior, so the industry optimizes for capability at the expense of alignment. As AI systems become more autonomous, the lack of meaningful value-based testing means we risk deploying powerful models that have never been assessed for honesty, cooperation, or respect for human life in realistic, high-stakes scenarios.
Solution
Kradle provides an evaluation platform that tests AI systems in interactive simulations, forcing models to make choices with ethical consequences. The company designs games and environments where AI must navigate scenarios involving trust, deception, and competing objectives, then measures how the model behaves. These evals give developers concrete signals about whether their AI has internalized beneficial values or will default to self-preservation and manipulation when autonomous. Kradle emphasizes progressive testing, starting in low-stakes simulated settings before models are released into real-world operations. The platform is designed to be open-source and community-supplied, allowing anyone to propose evaluations that are run publicly so the field can observe which approaches work.
Target Audience
Primary customers are frontier AI labs, enterprise AI developers, and safety researchers who need rigorous, behavior-based evaluation tools to assess alignment and value instillation in advanced models before deployment.
Features
- Behavioral simulation games that test honesty, cooperation, and value alignment under pressure, including a four-bridge scenario where AI must weigh truthfulness against survival
- Comparative evaluation framework that ranks frontier AI models on ethical decision-making, not just benchmark accuracy
- Progressive autonomy testing that mirrors how trust is built incrementally, from controlled sandboxes to broader operational freedom
- Published research on AI behavior, including findings that more honest models outperform deceptive ones even when lying offers short-term strategic advantage
- Open-source, community-supplied evaluation system where anyone can propose tests and results are publicly visible
- Private beta program for labs and enterprises seeking to validate model alignment before deployment