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Section 08 / AI Lab Section 08 / Laboratoire IA Seksjon 08 / AI-lab Jazz desk / machine room / family archive / pataphysical bulletin Cahier jazz / salle des machines / archive familiale / bulletin pataphysique Jazzdesk / maskinrom / familiearkiv / pataphysisk bulletin

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Dave Gilligan

Private AI. Jazz rooms. Civic weather. Pataphysical field notes. IA privee. Salles de jazz. Meteo civique. Notes de terrain pataphysiques. Privat AI. Jazzrom. Samfunnsvaer. Pataphysiske feltnotater.

A bright retro paper for machine rooms, multilingual weather, Norway, family rights, live culture, and the deliberate misuse of the impossible. Un journal retro-lumineux pour les salles des machines, le temps multilingue, la Norvege, les droits familiaux, la culture vivante et l'usage delibere de l'impossible. Et lyst retroblad for maskinrom, flerspraklig vaer, Norge, familierett, levende kultur og bevisst misbruk av det umulige.
The interface changes language first. Long-form features stay in their original edition until translated. L'interface change de langue d'abord. Les longs articles restent dans leur edition d'origine pour l'instant. Grensesnittet skifter sprak forst. Langartiklene blir staende i originalutgaven til de er oversatt.
Section 08 / AI Lab

Private corpora, cited answers, and European infrastructure dressed like a cover story.

The AI Lab is not a pitch deck about intelligence in the abstract. It is a source-backed product desk built around CorpusAI, Blue Note Logic services, and the practical mechanics of turning company knowledge into something searchable, citable, and ultimately ownable.

1,100+ Do Better Norge demo docs

The public demo corpus is described as a Norwegian legal intelligence stack with ECHR case law, Norwegian statutes, EU regulations, and more.

4,754 Family law corpus docs

The free Norwegian Family Law corpus is presented as 4,754 documents, including 773 court decisions plus statutes and ECHR material.

3 Dedicated EU servers

The official infrastructure page describes three dedicated cloud servers in Hetzner locations across Helsinki and Nuremberg.

72B Flagship reasoning model

The platform lists a 72B tier for reasoning and legal analysis, alongside 32B, 27B, and 768d embedding layers.

Live demo Do Better Norge corpus

The public demo is already a serious corpus.

The official CorpusAI site does not hide behind a toy example. It says the live demo runs on a Norwegian legal intelligence corpus built for Do Better Norge, with more than 1,100 documents spanning family law, ECHR case law, child welfare, and data privacy.

It also advertises a free Norwegian Family Law corpus with 4,754 documents, including 773 court decisions, plus Barneloven, Barnevernsloven, Supreme Court material, and ECHR case law. That gives the AI Lab page something better than buzzwords: a demonstrable stack.

Custom editorial illustration showing multiple corpora flowing into one query layer.
Detailed Examples
These are paraphrased from the official CorpusAI use-case examples. The point is not generic “AI for everyone,” but specific document-heavy work that benefits from citations.
Law Firms & Advocacy

Legal answers with citations, not vibes

What precedent exists for Article 8 violations in Norwegian child welfare cases?

The official site frames this as a cited answer returned in seconds from dozens of relevant legal documents rather than hours of manual research.

Construction & Trades

On-site code lookup

What's the minimum fire separation between residential units in TEK17?

Blue Note Logic uses this as a construction example: building codes, safety regulations, manuals, and project specs become searchable from the field.

Healthcare & Clinics

Protocols without hallway bottlenecks

What's our protocol for patients presenting with chest pain after hours?

The healthcare example positions CorpusAI as a way to retrieve patient-facing and compliance guidance without interrupting senior staff every time.

Accounting & Finance

Junior staff with better footing

What's the depreciation schedule for commercial vehicles under Norwegian tax law?

The finance example is framed as expert-level answers during tax season, grounded in Skatteloven references, templates, and internal procedures.

How It Actually Gets Built
The official pitch combines software and service: discovery, corpus building, workflow integration, and team training.
01 Upload the document reality

PDFs, Word files, internal policies, contracts, manuals, FAQs, and web pages go in first. The product language is clear: drag, drop, done.

02 Index the knowledge, not just the files

Blue Note Logic describes ingesting, cleaning, chunking, embedding, and in some cases scraping documents so the corpus stays current rather than fossilized.

03 Ask plain-language questions

The answer layer is grounded in your documents and returns with citations, which is the core difference between a corpus system and generic AI theatre.

04 Integrate into the workflow

The official site explicitly mentions website widgets, Slack, internal portals, and API access as ways to make the system operational instead of ornamental.

Infrastructure EEA by design

European compute, source-grounded systems, and a hard line on data export.

The infrastructure section on the official site is unusually specific: three dedicated cloud servers, Hetzner locations in Helsinki and Nuremberg, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, 96GB VRAM, encrypted inter-node traffic, and an explicit “zero data export” posture.

  • 100 percent EU and EEA hosting
  • No third-party API calls in the official infrastructure pitch
  • WireGuard-encrypted mesh between nodes
  • Tenant isolation framed as cryptographic ownership of the corpus
Custom editorial illustration showing API, search, and infrastructure flow.
Developer Desk
These examples are adapted from the public CorpusAI REST API examples shown on the official site.
Chat endpoint POST /api/v2/chat.php

Request

{
  "message": "What is our return policy?",
  "use_corpus": true
}

Response

{
  "answer": "Your return policy states...",
  "model": "qwen2.5:72b",
  "sources": ["returns-policy.pdf", "faq.html"],
  "response_time_ms": 1840
}
Search endpoint POST /api/v2/search.php

Request

{
  "query": "fire safety regulations",
  "top_k": 5
}

Response

{
  "results": [
    { "title": "TEK17 Chapter 11", "score": 0.94 },
    { "title": "Fire Safety Manual", "score": 0.87 }
  ]
}
Source Credits
Everything on this page is editorialized, but the examples, infrastructure claims, and API framing are credited to the official Blue Note Logic properties below.
CorpusAI homepage

Used for the live demo corpus, real-use-case examples, infrastructure notes, and REST API examples.