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Nextain

The AI you build and truly own

Nextain is an AI infrastructure company built to close the gap between the AI we dream of and reality. Instead of leaving everything to the cloud, we build an AI that lives on your own device and shares your memory — truly yours. For individuals, a Visual Agent you own; for enterprises, AI transformation built on top of it.

Current Traction

The code speaks for itself

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Patents Filed
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Products Live
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One philosophy, three products

A personal Visual Agent that lives on your device, enterprise AI transformation built on top of it, and education to understand AI — all from one belief: an AI that's truly yours.

Business Model

B2C

B2C: Naia OS

Local AI is always free. Even without a GPU, you can start with cloud AI via credits.

B2B

B2B: Naia AX

We transform enterprises to run on AI — from infrastructure to AI service development and revenue share. Built fast with the Naia Business ADK toolkit and operated as web services through Starnion, first proven on onmam.com.

B2B2C

B2B2C: AieDu

Education for the AI era. Custom curriculum and licensing per institution.

"We build the technology that makes AI truly yours."

Patents Filed

Core technologies protected through patent applications.

10-2026-0054378
Source Context-Based AI Curriculum Auto-Generation and AI-Direct Instruction
The core of AieDu — synthesizes learner level, curriculum, and pedagogy from educational sources to auto-generate curricula, with AI directly controlling the editor to teach
10-2026-0054380
Codebase-Driven Automated Patent Discovery, Evaluation, and Filing Pipeline
A differentiator for B2B consulting — auto-discovers patentable inventions from source code, generating specifications through electronic filing in a single pipeline
10-2026-0054383
Neuroscience-Based Multi-Store Long-Term Memory Management for AI Agents
The core of Naia OS — episodic, semantic, procedural, and working memory in a 4-store architecture that understands you deeper over time
10-2026-0054384
AI Agent-Coupled Dynamic Panel Extension
The core of Naia OS workspace — dynamically registers and extends panels with bidirectional AI agent integration and 4-tier permission control
10-2026-0056403
Multi-Agent Cross-Verification Framework
The core of quality assurance — multiple independent AI agents cross-verify, vote, and converge to mechanically prevent defects
10-2026-0065859
Real-Time Safe Context Compaction Based on Episodic Memory Integration State
Core of Naia OS memory — tracks episodic integration state to selectively compact only conversations safely preserved in long-term memory via a real-time pipeline
10-2026-0065894
Multimodal-Input Legacy Website Migration Requirements Structuring
Core of SaaS migration — auto-collects and classifies legacy site migration requirements from text, image, and URL inputs via 4-axis Gap Analysis
10-2026-0065895
Auto-Adaptive AI Agent Harness in Multi-Tenant SaaS
Core of Naia OS + SaaS — when tenant-specific episodic memory accumulation crosses a threshold, the operational harness (AGENTS.md, skills) auto-restructures via a self-reinforcing loop
10-2026-0090454
Ambient media event-driven autonomous speech & proactive action
Core of Naia OS presence — links ambient BGM/media events to long-term memory so the AI initiates conversation and acts proactively
10-2026-0078232
Importance-gating cognitive memory
Core of Naia memory — gates incoming information by importance to decide what to commit to memory
10-2026-0095948
AI workspace context file integrity verification
Core of naia-adk — verifies the integrity of context files the AI reads, preventing tampering and contamination
10-2026-0096205
File-system event-driven multi AI-agent session monitoring
Core of Naia OS — infers and monitors the state of multiple AI sessions from composite file-system event signals

How we build

AI Native Open Source

AI Slop isn't just bad code — it's contributing without understanding the project or its community. Nextain builds a structure where AI understands project context and passes adversarial review from an upstream maintainer's perspective — creating an open source ecosystem grown together with AI.

Local-First, Private by Design

Memory, personality, and conversations stay on your device. No data leaves unless you choose otherwise. Your data, your decision.

Solid AI Infrastructure

In the enterprise, AI running without understanding the business context is the same AI Slop problem. Nextain builds infrastructure for AI agents that understand your systems and operate safely within them.

Key Members

Byeongseok Yang (Luke)

LinkedIn

Founder & CEO

  • B.S. Computer Science, Soongsil University
  • Naver (NHN) 7 years — AI/OCR R&D, Shopping PM, Mobile/Webtoon/Smart TV product launches
  • SPRi (SW Policy Research Institute) 3 years — 10+ research publications on SW policy & VR/AR
  • Founded Comicsv → pivoted to Belivvr (metaverse education), 8 years
  • 25 registered patents (Naver 18 + Belivvr 5 + others) + 8 new Nextain patents filed
  • Author: 'The World of Virtual Reality is Coming' (2016)
  • Naver IT Power Blogger (2010–12), Blog of the Month (2026)
  • Founded Nextain (2026) — Naia OS / AieDu planning and development

Donghak Kim

LinkedIn

CTO

  • 24 years of full-stack development (Go, Python, Node.js, React, Docker, MSA, GraphQL, gRPC)
  • AI platform CTO — LLM integration, large-scale AI workflow optimization
  • Author: 'Vibe Coding with v0 + Cursor', 'AI Coding' — published developer educator
  • AI developer community operator, online/offline instructor
  • 100+ server operations, global team leadership (Vietnam)
  • Naia OS architecture co-designer — agent layer, gateway integration

Partners

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Vision

With your own AI

"In an era where we must live alongside AI, we inevitably share more and more with it. Yet the reality of entrusting a cloud AI — opaque and subject to change at any moment — as our partner leaves an unavoidable sense of unease. Nextain builds on transparent open source to create a trustworthy AI that exists only on your computer, shares memories with you, and grows alongside you — the one and only AI that is truly yours."

- Luke, Founder of Nextain