Brello Research https://brello.ai/research/ Engineering, research and safety notes from the team building Brello. en-GB Answering from the open web, without a server https://brello.ai/research/on-device-web-answers/ https://brello.ai/research/on-device-web-answers/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Engineering How Brello 1.0 searches, reads and ranks web pages on the phone and cites them: the provider chain, reader-mode extraction, BM25 passages and a context budget. Private compute you can verify: the design space https://brello.ai/research/verifiable-private-compute/ https://brello.ai/research/verifiable-private-compute/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Research Working notes for Brello Super Intelligence: a threat model, attestation, transparency logs and stateless processing, so privacy can be checked, not promised. Small models copy the shape of their instructions https://brello.ai/research/small-models-shape-of-instructions/ https://brello.ai/research/small-models-shape-of-instructions/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Research Small language models copy the shape of their instructions. How Brello 1.0 handles it: a four-sentence system prompt, a 4,096-token window and a loop guard. Fitting a model to the phone in your pocket https://brello.ai/research/fitting-a-model-to-the-phone/ https://brello.ai/research/fitting-a-model-to-the-phone/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Engineering How Brello 1.0 picks a model by phone memory, checks storage before a multi-gigabyte download, runs on the GPU with a CPU fallback and recovers from failures. Asking before going online: consent for web search https://brello.ai/research/asking-before-going-online/ https://brello.ai/research/asking-before-going-online/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Safety Consent design for on-device AI web search in Brello 1.0: search is off by default, a card asks first, and every reply shows whether the web was used. Evaluate first, then ship https://brello.ai/research/evaluate-then-ship/ https://brello.ai/research/evaluate-then-ship/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Safety How we intend to test Brello Super Intelligence before each step up in capability: six evaluation areas, the release gates we’ll apply and what we’ll publish. Designing an intelligence you can see working https://brello.ai/research/designing-visible-intelligence/ https://brello.ai/research/designing-visible-intelligence/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Design The orb, the spectrum glow and the streaming reveal: how Brello 1.0 shows when its on-device model is working, and the exact maths behind each of them.