README.md

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# Gestalt Lab 🇨🇦

**Independent Canadian Open Reasoning Research**

GestaltLabs is the research home for the **Nemostein**, **Ornstein**,  **CRUCIBLE**, **Acta**, **NSC-ACE**, and related model lines by [DJLougen](https://huggingface.co/DJLougen). We build, curate, and release open-weight artifacts for practical reasoning systems: multimodal assistants, tool-using agents, local GGUF deployments, and post-training experiments around capability preservation, refusal shaping, and high-signal synthetic data.

[Models](https://huggingface.co/GestaltLabs?sort_models=lastModified) · [Datasets](https://huggingface.co/datasets?author=DJLougen) · [DJLougen](https://huggingface.co/DJLougen)

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## Principles
- Ship **open artifacts** that people can inspect, run, and adapt
- Pair model releases with practical local inference formats (GGUF, MLX, etc.)
- Treat datasets as first-class research objects, not just training fuel
- Explore behavior editing while measuring capability drift and documenting limitations
- Build for researchers, tinkerers, and builders who want systems they can actually run locally

## Contact
Open a discussion on any repository or reach out via [DJLougen](https://huggingface.co/DJLougen).