Begin with the question.
Meaningful research starts with something worth understanding. The inquiry stays open to different disciplines, perspectives, and possibilities.
Independent research & open inquiry
The pursuit of understanding.
Ideas deserve more than conviction. They deserve investigation.
Stoneforge Labs is an independent research practice. A considered approach to technology, complex systems, and the questions that connect them.
STONEFORGE / STUDIES IN FORMFIG. 01
A practice built on substance.
Primary sourcesOpen methodsIndependent perspective
Technical research / 2026
The reality of
running AI locally.
A closer look at Gemma 4 on a single RTX 5090. Serving performance, evaluation, and practical integration, with the methods behind the measurements.
Read the technical report02 / The approach
A wider field.
A closer look.
Curiosity sets the direction.
Discipline gives it substance.
Go to the source.
Primary sources, careful measurement, and reproducible methods form the foundation. Conclusions should be traceable to the work that supports them.
Let the work stand.
Publish the findings alongside the methods and limitations. Make room for scrutiny, useful disagreement, and a better understanding.
03 / Behind the work
A personal practice.
An independent mind.
Founded by Jayson Stone, Stoneforge Labs brings a disciplined, hands-on perspective to research and open technical work.
Its starting point is technology. Its scope is the wider landscape of ideas, systems, and evidence that shape how we understand the world.
About Jayson StoneAn open conversation