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Intelligence should
strengthen its owner.

Become AI-native. Own your inference. Keep control of your data. Three commitments, built into one private enterprise intelligence system.

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Our conviction

Capability should compound inside your enterprise.

Mentis8 is a Fireboard Intelligence company founded by Alex Bothe.

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Become AI-native.

Own your inference.

Keep control of your data.

01 / Custom to your firm

AI that fits the way you work.

A custom agent harness brings your systems, knowledge and workflows together. We scope the connections, permissions and outcomes around your organization.

02 / Owned capacity

Grow the value. Lose the token meter.

Shift inference spending from recurring token charges to dedicated infrastructure. Put your investment to work across more teams and agents within its capacity.

Energy, cooling, software and service remain operating costs. Additional capacity requires investment.

03 / Enterprise sovereignty

Your knowledge serves your business.

Keep local model execution and enterprise context on infrastructure you control. Define who can access it, what agents can do and which external connections are permitted.

The research behind Mentis8

Fireboard Intelligence.

Better intelligence takes more than a bigger model.

Fireboard Intelligence is Alex Bothe’s incubator and research lab, and the company behind Mentis8. Its work explores how the harness around a model can change what an agent is capable of doing.

Fireboard has developed an agent harness using proprietary causal and metacognitive research, running older-generation open-source models on a consumer machine with 128 GB of memory. Mentis8 brings that research direction to the enterprise: a custom harness, private infrastructure and workflows built around your firm.

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Causal research

Reasoning about cause and effect.

02

Metacognitive research

Reasoning about the reasoning process itself.

Older-generation open-source models. A 128 GB machine. Results ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 in our agent evaluations.

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About the performance comparison

Our harness outperformed Claude Opus 5.5 in a simulated-company agent evaluation using older-generation open-source models and a 128 GB consumer machine. Full methodology, configurations and scores are not published here. Results apply to the tested tasks and configuration. Enterprise configurations are qualified separately.

2018

LeadLynx

Alex began developing agentic workflows at his own company.

Experience

Consequential enterprise work.

Prior work includes agentic deployments for Memorial Sloan Kettering and Disney, alongside technology leadership across startups.

Mentis8

Intelligence, owned.

A private intelligence system that brings dedicated infrastructure and an operating layer together.

Founder history supplied by Alex. Prior organizations are not Mentis8 customers or endorsements.

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01 / Our conviction

Build something that stays.

Mentis8 stands for enterprise independence: the ability to build intelligence without surrendering the operating foundation of your business to an external AI platform.

Enterprise intelligence is not just access to a capable model. It is the connection between that model and the knowledge, decisions and responsibilities of a particular organization.

Mentis8 brings dedicated infrastructure and a purpose-built operating layer into one product direction: private intelligence that can become part of how a business works.

02 / The eight

Many capabilities. One organization.

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The eight draws on the octopus: distributed capabilities working as a coordinated whole. It is the idea behind specialized agents with shared direction and clearly defined responsibilities.

The sideways eight carries a second idea: continuity. The intelligence you build should accumulate into a lasting capability.

03 / Our approach

Conviction, with accountability.

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Start with the work

Choose a meaningful workflow before choosing a configuration.

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Make boundaries explicit

Treat permission, operations and deployment as part of the product.

03

Earn the next step

Use qualification and measured results to justify expansion.

We are developing Mentis8 for organizations that want to take an active role in the intelligence they depend on. A private briefing starts with the work you want to enable and the requirements it must meet.

04 / Leadership

Built by an operator.

Mentis8 is a Fireboard Intelligence company, founded by Alex Bothe. Alex brings more than a decade of engineering, product and technology leadership across startups, including CTO roles and enterprise AI work.

Alex founded LeadLynx and began developing agentic workflows in 2018. His prior enterprise delivery experience includes agentic workflow deployments for Memorial Sloan Kettering and Disney.

He also serves as CTO of OPTIKKA, working on creative orchestration and production at scale. Mentis8 brings that focus on operating systems and coordinated execution to private enterprise intelligence.

Organizations named here relate to Alex’s prior work, not Mentis8 deployments or endorsements.

Alex Bothe · Founder, Mentis8 / Fireboard Intelligence
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Begin with
your enterprise.

A briefing starts with your workloads, operating requirements and deployment environment.

Pilot-ready. Contact alex@fireboard.ai to discuss your workload and site requirements.