Fig. 02
Check, don't trust
A model that cannot show its work is not fit for decisions people can be held accountable for.
Vela Reason - verifiable inference
Reasoning you can check.
Vela builds reasoning models for regulated industries - claims, authorizations, routing decisions - where a confident guess is not good enough. Every answer ships with a trace you can audit, cite, and re-run.
24papers published
6industry pilots
98.7%trace completeness
Fig. 01 - The problem
Most models will confidently tell you a lie with citations.
Regulated industries cannot use a system that cannot say why. So we built one that treats the reasoning trace - not the prediction - as the product.
Fig. 03
Boring where it counts
The API is predictable. The latency is documented. The audit log is immutable.
Fig. 04
People sign
Models draft. Humans decide. That line is not moving.
Fig. 05 - Capabilities
Built for decisions someone signs.
Verifiable reasoning
Every answer comes with a reasoning trace - a step-by-step chain you can inspect, audit, and re-run. Faith not required.
Domain-grounded
Vela Reason is tuned on your policies, your contracts, and your historical decisions - not on internet folklore.
Deployable under lock
Runs in your VPC or on-prem. Data stays in your compliance boundary, models ship as signed artifacts.
Human in the loop
Low-confidence decisions route to a person by default. The model drafts; the accountable human signs.
Fig. 06 - Use cases
Where a traceable model earns its keep.
Insurance
Claims review
Draft claim determinations with a traceable chain to the exact policy clause and evidence line.
Healthcare operations
Prior authorization
Reduce denials by grounding each decision in the plan's medical policy, with citations reviewers can verify.
Logistics
Routing exceptions
Explain routing changes mid-shift - which constraint broke, which alternative was chosen, and why.
Fig. 07 - Pilot partners
Compliance teams did not laugh at these.
“The first model our compliance team did not laugh out of the room. The trace made it a document, not a black box.”
“We re-ran a full year of prior-authorization decisions on Vela and could see exactly where the old process was inconsistent.”
“Vela is the first AI vendor whose security review we finished in a week. Signed artifacts change everything.”
Fig. 08 - The lab
A research company, first.
Vela AI is 37 PhD researchers and a small product team. We publish our methods, release our evaluations, and let the papers argue for us.
Pilot applications open
Bring us a decision you're afraid to trust to a model.
A handful of pilot slots are open for regulated teams in 2026. You bring the policy documents; we bring the trace.