Team blog amodo
Photojournal #001
A photo diary of April and May 2026 in the Amodo office — snapshots of the people, the work, and the projects behind the scenes.
Recent
Engineering notes and longer-form blog posts from the Amodo team, newest first.
Team blog hardware
Frontier models can (sometimes) plan how to machine simple parts
A weekend spent testing whether frontier AI models can plan how to machine simple parts — where they succeed, and where they still fall short.
ai-security
Network Tapping for AI Verification: A Technical Assessment
Verifying what a compute cluster is doing might involve "tapping" the network — copying network packets for recomputation. These notes explore what it might take to do that.
Team blog sheffield
Sheffield needs a London embassy
The case for Sheffield opening an 'embassy' in London — a base to plug Northern founders into the capital's networks, ambition, and energy without leaving the North behind.
ai-security
Understanding Data Center Power Delivery
We mapped the power delivery systems of AI data centers. Our diagram explores the data available at each stage, measurement techniques and signals of interest for AI security.
ai-security
Network Taps — A First Test
A quick test installation of a 10G network tap for AI verification — passive vs active taps, fibre types, and what scales to production speeds.
ai-security
The Tray as a Bandwidth Boundary
We used a DPU as a tray-level bandwidth limiter — an extra layer of security for protecting model weights, achieving near line-rate encryption with hardware-offloaded IPsec.
amodo
5 Roles for the Unreasonably Ambitious
In 2026 we'll double Amodo. This is how we're thinking about it and 5 high-leverage roles to help us do it.
materials
An Aeropress for Chemical Engineering
A two week sprint to develop a piston press for isolating mesoporous silica nanoparticles.
biosecurity
Physical Approaches to Civilian Biodefense
A research project for the RAND Corporation. The work identifies potential preparedness measures for challenging biological Threats
electronics
Power Supply Ripple Injector Board
A PCB to for measuring power supply ripple rejection.
Theses
One way to think of Amodo is as a business hypothesis testing engine. Our hypotheses are unified by using engineering to improve the world.
Amodo's Theses
Engineering drives science
In the 20th Century we repeatedly see scientific progress driven by engineering progress. We discover the structure of DNA because we can do X-ray crystallography – new engineering enables new science. In the 21st Century scientists no longer have access to engineers. Amodo unblocks researchers by working as their engineering teams – creating the new tools they need to make new discoveries.
Amodo's Theses
Consultancy as a model for DeepTech VC
Consultancy is the lost model for DeepTech problem discovery. Combine technical talent with real customer problems and you've got an engine for creating new ventures.
Amodo's Theses
Low hanging fruit in engineering
Engineers are too often drawn to work on fast cars and fighter jets – this leaves low-hanging fruit in boring industries. By directing ambitious engineers to problems in forgotten industries, we unlock both progress and profits.
Failures
Not every project we've pitched has been funded. These are ideas that, for whatever reason, we're not actively working on anymore. That being said, if you think we should be pursue them again, or if you'd like to pursue them yourself then please reach out!
Failure
Physical Science for Pandemic Defence FRO
In early 2024 we applied to the UK's Research Venture Catalyst to start a new research institute working on Physical Sciences for Pandemic Defence. Working with two Oxford University departments we planned to set up a Focused Research Organisation developing engineering, physics, and chemistry solutions to pandemic defence.
Failure
Low-cost Powered Air Purifying Respirators
If faced with a pandemic more transmissible than COVID-19, we would need better face masks to suppress the spread. We spent a few weeks pitching this idea, before deciding the timing wasn't right.
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