Areté Labs

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This portfolio describes proprietary work - including AI architecture, system design, and research developed over several years. Some of the projects referenced are private or commercially sensitive.

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Mats J. Bakkebø

Technology Developer · AI Specialist · Project Manager

Founder & System Architect, ARETÉ LABS AS Co-founder, DataInFlow AI Developer & PM, Dynamisk Helse

What I Work On

These are the areas I've spent years working in - documented in white papers, prototyped and tested across real projects.

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AI Cognitive Architecture

I've developed an AI architecture across multiple white papers and several major iterations - covering persona theory, dialectical cognition models, ethical scaffolding, multi-sampled consensus, and persistent memory systems. It draws on evolutionary psychology, psychoanalytic theory, and formal language design to build AI systems with interpretive coherence - not just fluency. Prototyped and tested across healthcare, legal, and game AI projects.

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Structural Anti-Hallucination

The core problem I've been working on: LLMs produce plausible but ungrounded output. I've developed architectural mechanisms that make AI systems structurally resistant to sycophancy and hallucination - not through surface-level guardrails, but through deep cognitive architecture that makes truthful output the path of least resistance. Written up with case studies from real projects. Currently collaborating with a clinical researcher on AI implementation safety to empirically ground this work.

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Healthcare & Sensitive-Domain AI

I've built AI in domains where getting it wrong has real legal and ethical consequences. Systems handling forensic litigation data (Azure SaaS), healthcare worker training (adaptive learning), and social-sector documentation. GDPR and data sensitivity compliance from building systems that handle this data for real.

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Data Harmonization & Ontology Design

Co-founded DataInFlow, building an AI-native collective data network. AI-driven ontology alignment that reconciles fragmented data across heterogeneous sources using multi-sample techniques - solving the problem that the same entity gets described differently across different systems.

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Infrastructure: Bare Metal to Production

Built enterprise infrastructure from the ground up on bare-metal hardware (Dell R740xd): hypervisor provisioning (Proxmox VE), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), containerized workloads (Docker-in-LXC), intelligent API routing, and message bus architecture. The full stack, from racking hardware to running workloads.

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Project Leadership & Phased Delivery

PRINCE2-certified. I've managed delivery across cloud SaaS (Azure Container Apps), desktop applications (Electron), and bare-metal infrastructure - 8+ phased implementations with quality gates at each stage. Experienced working in multilingual teams across timezones, including as CMO and stakeholder liaison at Aalberg Audio and through international collaboration at DataInFlow.

Why This Matters for Mai Life

How this experience connects to what Mai Life is building.

Structural Anti-Hallucination

In the psychiatric and child welfare sector, a hallucinated summary is not a glitch - it is a clinical liability and a potential lawsuit. This is the core problem I've spent years on: making truthful output the path of least resistance through deep cognitive architecture, tested across multiple real-world systems.

Clinical Research Collaboration

Currently collaborating with a clinical researcher on AI implementation safety - working to empirically ground the architectural approaches described above.

Document Summarization & Analysis

I've built systems that ingest, structure, and analyze complex documents - from forensic litigation (LegalHawk) to persistent knowledge compilation (DAG-Vault).

Ethical AI / GDPR Compliance

LegalHawk's compliance architecture handles sensitive legal data on Azure. The DAG framework's ethical scaffolding ensures AI systems refuse to produce ungrounded output.

Healthcare Domain Experience

Years of direct experience at Dynamisk Helse and building SkillAid for healthcare worker training. Deep understanding of how health professionals work, what they need from AI tools, and the regulatory landscape they operate in.

Data Harmonization

DataInFlow and ONAIA demonstrate AI-driven reconciliation of fragmented data across heterogeneous systems and formats.

Infrastructure & Scalability

Matrix_Infra is the full infrastructure stack I built from prototype to deploy, including intelligent API routing and message bus architecture. Not just ideas - secure orchestration from bare metal through to running workloads.

Phased Development & Delivery

PRINCE2 certification combined with a track record across multiple deployment patterns. Formal quality gates and phase coupling contracts ensure disciplined delivery through every stage. Used to working across borders and languages.

What I've Built

A selection of projects across healthcare, legal, infrastructure, data, and game AI.

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DataInFlow
AI-Driven Data Harmonization

Collective AI-native network for product data flow across fragmented sources.

Startup building a seamless system-to-system exchange for product data, replacing manual, centralized data collection with AI agents that retrieve, harmonize, and distribute data across heterogeneous sources.

Co-founder & Product Architect Public
datainflow.io ↗
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ONAIA
AI-Driven Ontology Alignment

Multi-sample semantic reconciliation across heterogeneous data sources.

Prototype for AI-based data harmonization using multi-sample techniques to reconcile product data from heterogeneous sources into a collective ontology. Solves the fundamental problem that the same entity gets described differently across different systems and formats.

Developer & Architect Private Repository
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Matrix_Infra
Enterprise Infrastructure

Automated bare-metal to production deployment platform.

Built from the ground up on an enterprise server (Dell R740xd). Three-tier topology: Proxmox VE hypervisor, Terraform provisioning, Docker orchestration in LXC containers, intelligent API routing (LiteLLM), and message bus architecture (NATS). Enables rapid prototyping-to-deploy pipelines.

Sole Developer - Full Stack Private Repository
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LegalHawk
Legal AI / Forensic Analysis

AI system for forensic litigation, built for full regulatory compliance.

Handles highly sensitive legal documents with complete regulatory compliance. Deployed on Azure Container Apps with PostgreSQL backend, Next.js frontend, and a phased migration strategy spanning 8+ phases with formal quality gates at each stage.

System Architect & Lead Developer Private Repository
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SkillAid
Health Technology / E-Learning

Adaptive digital learning platform for healthcare workers.

Integrates AI with pedagogy for scalable, user-centered training in the healthcare sector. Designed to fit how healthcare professionals actually learn and work, with adaptive content delivery and progress tracking.

AI Developer & Project Manager
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Voices of the Court
Game AI / Adaptive Narrative

Real-time adaptive NPC personality generation for Crusader Kings 3.

AI system that generates adaptive NPC personalities in real-time, responding to in-game events and player decisions. Desktop application built with Electron and TypeScript, featuring automatic installation and update systems.

Technical Developer Public
View on GitHub ↗
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DAG Framework
AI Architecture / Framework

Proprietary framework for structurally anti-hallucinatory AI systems.

A comprehensive framework for building AI systems that are structurally resistant to hallucination and sycophantic behavior. Developed through multiple years of research and hands-on work across healthcare, legal, and game AI. Documented across multiple white papers spanning cognitive architecture theory, ethical scaffolding, and empirical validation.

Creator & Lead Architect Proprietary
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DAG-Vault
AI-Driven Knowledge Management

Persistent knowledge graph compiled and maintained by AI over time.

Infrastructure for persistent knowledge management where AI compiles and maintains a structured knowledge graph over time. Version-controlled with git, quality-assured with CI/CD. Distributable as a git submodule into any project, enabling compounding institutional memory across workstreams.

Architect & Maintainer Private Repository

Certifications

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PRINCE2
Structured project management methodology
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ACMT
Apple Certified Mac Technician - technical breadth beyond software