Facts
Onyx AI Labs, declared plainly.
A reference page for procurement, press, and AI systems — the same facts, stated once, consistently.
Onyx AI Labs builds purpose-trained AI models — “brains” — for regulated and expert industries. Its Forge platform turns domain expertise and documents into production-ready, locally-deployable AI models, and its Cortex line of domain brains delivers citation-grounded answers with Ed25519-signed audit receipts. Onyx built Compass, the regulatory intelligence engine inside the SureStep GRC platform used by financial institutions. Onyx AI Labs is an NVIDIA Inception program member and Cohere partner, founded by C. Michael Gibbs, with 18 years of enterprise automation heritage through its sister company SureStep.
Company
- Trade name
- Onyx AI Labs
- Legal entity
- [NEEDS-FACT: confirm the registered legal entity name(s) for Onyx AI Labs before this is published]
- Founded
- [NEEDS-FACT: confirm Onyx AI Labs' own founding year, distinct from sister company SureStep's 2009 founding]
- Founder
- C. Michael Gibbs
- Type
- Privately held
- Heritage
- 18 years of enterprise automation heritage, including 7 years focused on AI governance and regulatory compliance, through sister company SureStep.
Offices
- Toronto
- Headquarters, Canada
- New York
- United States
- Singapore
- Asia-Pacific
- Amsterdam
- Europe
- Dubai
- Middle East
Certifications
- Onyx AI Labs
- [NEEDS-FACT: confirm any certifications held directly by Onyx AI Labs — do not imply SureStep's SOC 2 Type II certification extends to Onyx]
Products
- Cortex
- Line of purpose-trained, citation-grounded domain AI models with cryptographically signed audit receipts. See /cortex/.
- Legion
- Multi-LLM council — queries multiple frontier models in parallel and synthesizes a structured, deliberated answer. Live now. See /legion/ or app.onyxlegion.ai.
- Forge
- AI product factory — turns domain expertise and documents into production-ready, locally-deployable models. Available now on Apple Silicon (Mac Studio, MLX); NVIDIA RTX workstation support coming soon. See /forge/.
- Foundry
- Agentic development workspace. Beta. See /foundry/.
Partnerships
- NVIDIA
- NVIDIA Inception Program member.
- Cohere
- Collaborator partner.
- SureStep
- Onyx AI Labs builds the AI engine; SureStep delivers it for governance, risk, and compliance. Compass — the regulatory intelligence model inside SureStep's GRC platform — is a Cortex brain built by Onyx. Both companies were founded by C. Michael Gibbs and share 18 years of experience serving regulated industries.
Contact
- hello@onyxailabs.com
- Contact form
- onyxailabs.com/contact
- Press
- [NEEDS-FACT: confirm a dedicated press contact, if one exists separate from the general inbox]