MARC is a modular hardware platform for autonomous systems that must operate
without continuous connectivity, centralized coordination, or implicit authority.
It defines the physical execution boundary for governance-first autonomy.
Local communications under degraded or silent conditions
Explicit authority boundaries and refusal-capable execution
Designed to fail safely and preserve intent under uncertainty
Research Foundation
MARC is grounded in published architectural and systems research examining authority,
silence, refusal, and failure modes in autonomous and distributed systems.
Authority, Silence, and Failure Modes in AI-Driven Systems
Resilience Is Not Uptime
Designing Systems That Behave Correctly in Silence
The Missing Layer: The Hidden Risk in Modern Autonomous Systems
Authority Contraction and Refusal as Safety Invariants
ER-Series racks are laboratory and field test infrastructure used to host MARC
instances during validation, measurement, and experimentation.
They are not the MARC platform itself.