Vareon builds Duplex and Reflex.
Your models and ACI, working as one.
Vareon pairs the models you already run with ACI, Adaptive Continual Intelligence, and the combination is the product: Duplex for your AI and your agents, Reflex for any machine that decides and acts on its own.
Duplex and Reflex are products of Vareon, Inc., Irvine, California
Two products, both built on ACI.
Each pairs what you already run with an ACI model, and the combination is the product: your AI model makes Duplex, your autonomy stack makes Reflex.
- DuplexYour AI and an ACI model, working as one: runtime intelligence for your AI and your agents.It works inside Claude, Codex, Cursor and Hermes, and inside your own agents through MCP + hooks, in Vareon Cloud or your cloud.See Duplex →
- ReflexBetaYour autonomy stack and an ACI model, working as one: the runtime for any machine that decides and acts on its own.Reflex is in beta. What it has shown so far comes from simulation and benchmarks, and we prove it with you, on your machines, in a pilot.See Reflex →
What Vareon means.
Var, for variation and change. Eon, for time. Vareon is change over time: adaptation.
The mark says it too. It’s ∇, the nabla: in mathematics, the direction of change, and the gradient every model learns by. Drawn as an impossible loop, each beam in front of the next, it has no beginning and no end. Change, over time.
- Var
Variation, change
Every result changes something: a fix, a rule, a better way to do the work.
- eon
Time
Not once, at a release, but for as long as the work goes on, each change building on the last.
- Vareon
Change over time: adaptation
What a trained model can’t do once it ships, and what ACI was built to do. Duplex brings it to your AI and your agents, and Reflex to your autonomous systems.
We created ACI.
ACI, Adaptive Continual Intelligence, is a new category of intelligence that works in tandem with the models you already run. Paired with your AI model, it is Duplex. Paired with your autonomy stack, it is Reflex.
Step 1 of 4: Who could
Until now, only the labs that train models could make AI learn. With ACI, every person and company can.
One founder, a new kind of intelligence.
Faruk Guney built ACI, Duplex and his new startup on his own.
For more than fifteen years he grew Norck from a California startup into a global on-demand manufacturing and engineering company, headquartered in Germany. He saw where AI falls short in real work: it learns once, before release, and can’t learn, plan, simulate, decide and act on the job.
So he spent years on the research question at its root: the trilemma of neural nets, plasticity, stability and editability. ACI is the answer, and Duplex brings it to everyday work.
He believes in principled acceleration: AI as the engine that speeds up progress in materials, energy and engineering, with every step traceable, trusted and true to how the real world works.
Faruk Guney
Founder · AI and industrial engineering
From scaling global manufacturing at Norck to engineering intelligence for the physical world, he builds systems for the problems where physics matters and the margin for error is zero.
2025 to today
Founder
ACI, Duplex and a new startup building AI agents and robotic systems that learn continually, plan, simulate, decide and act in the physical world.
2009 to 2025
CEO and founder, Norck
Prototype. Manufacture. Scale up. On demand. From garage startups to Fortune 500 companies, worldwide.
Before Norck
Engineering
Logistics systems engineering lead at Anna’s Linens, manufacturing engineer at Zodiac Aerospace Services, and productivity analyst for the republic of Türkiye ministry of industry and technology.
Education
USC and Johns Hopkins
M.s. In industrial and systems engineering at USC, and advanced studies in artificial intelligence at Johns Hopkins university.
Agents will get better with a second intelligence beside them, in a recursive loop, at runtime.
Recursive self-improvement will emerge at runtime. It is a significant departure from established ideas, and we believe it is the future of AI.
Step 1 of 5: An agent works
It will come while the work happens, from a second intelligence beside every agent, rather than from coding agents editing their own code or from weights retrained on clusters of accelerators.
What we believe.
Three beliefs, and everything we build follows from them.
- 01Every AI needs a second intelligence beside it.
- 02What it learns belongs to you.
- 03Your whole stack should learn together.
Step 1 of 3: A second intelligence
Your AI learned the world slowly. ACI learns your work fast, plans, simulates, decides and acts on it: two intelligences, one system.
Why we built Duplex.
Your AI learned the world before you arrived. Your work needs an intelligence that learns, plans, simulates, decides and acts while it happens, so we built one.
Step 1 of 4: Before you arrive
Your AI learned the world slowly, long before it met your work.
Tell us what your pilot should learn first.
A Duplex pilot runs on your own work, and a Reflex pilot on your own systems. Or write to hello@vareon.com.