Proprietary C++ engine · Streaming data · Robotics & AI
Software for companies aiming for Saturn.
Saturn is the future's fuel station, and reaching it takes a faster ship. We built one: neo, our proprietary C++ engine, finishes ahead of Polars, DuckDB, pandas, Spark and Arrow, and of its own ports to Go, Rust, Swift and Zig, on 119 of 122 measurements. Around it, n0is builds unified streaming data, robotics and AI, with every watt accounted for.
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Mission Saturn · measured, not claimed
We built the fastest data engine in the race.
Nine engines, the same work, and neo ahead on 119 of 122 measurements. In the time neo finishes a kernel once, this is how far Polars, DuckDB, pandas, Spark and Arrow get, and the same kernels written in Go, Rust, Swift and Zig. Every lane links to the code that ran.
neo crosses once
- Ahead of the field
- 119 of 122 measurements
- Over the JavaScript it replaces
- 33× median
- Same output, old and new
- 627 / 627 cases
- A million rows summed by group
- 0.020 ms
01 / Thesis
Saturn is the future's fuel station.
Earth's supply is limited. Saturn's is, for every practical purpose, infinite.
A ball of gas and liquid metal, hydrogen all the way down to a metallic core. It is what carries human evolution past the Moon, past Mars, and past where we are today.
Problems handled on the spot
Getting humans to Saturn safely takes extreme innovation in software, so that agentic robotics can mitigate and manage problems the instant they appear.
We invented neo
A C++ engine that immediately improves any low-level data streaming system, and outruns modern tools like Spark and DuckDB.
Proven with data
Every claim here is a measured number: the same work, on one machine, against the field.
See the evals →
Power is the budget
In space, most of the power goes to detecting flying objects and mitigating the risks that will come. Everything else runs on what is left.
Speed is survival
Decisions arrive in microseconds, not minutes. Our engine is written in C++ because nothing slower is acceptable.
One stream
Propulsion, life support, navigation, robotics. Unified into a single stream of data so the whole vehicle can be optimized at once.
02 / Capabilities
What we build.
- 01
Proprietary C++ engine
Extreme automation and optimization on a fixed power budget. Built from the ground up for speed and watts, not developer convenience.
- 02
Streaming data unification
Every sensor, subsystem and actuator on the vehicle as one coherent stream. One truth to optimize against, from launch to Saturn orbit.
- 03
Robotics and AI
Autonomous systems that harvest, dock, repair and refuel at the station, and keep working when Earth is eighty light-minutes away.
- 04
Detection and risk mitigation
Finding flying objects early and acting on them inside the power budget. The risks are inevitable. Losing the mission is not.
03 / Evals
Measured, not claimed.
neo is our proprietary C++ engine. Every number below was printed by a script, on one machine, against the same input, and checked for the same output. The same kernels were ported to four other languages and told to beat it. Where something else is quicker, it is shown quicker.
- 33×
- the median speed-up over the JavaScript it replaces
- 627 / 627
- cases where old and new give the same output
- 9.11 mJ
- of energy to total a column by group, 1,000,000 rows, one run from rest
- 0.020 ms
- to total a column by group, 1,000,000 rows
57 cases over 23 nodes at 250,000 rows; the least 4.7×, the most 1,356×
the original JavaScript and the C++ on the same input, output for output (tools/eval/eval.py)
the same in Polars 3× · DuckDB 4× · pandas 6× · Spark 86× as much
the same in Polars 77× · DuckDB 112× · pandas 612× · Spark 1,948× as long
Lower is better · the measurement, with each column's multiple of neo in gray · click an engine for the code that ran, or a kernel for its chart
The same kernels, in other languages
1,000,000 rows · ms · 2026-10-12 06:38
Taken on a shared machine. Every engine ran in the same rounds, so the columns stand beside each other; the times themselves may read high.
Against the libraries people reach for first
1,000,000 rows · ms · 2026-10-11 21:23
The same run, in energy
1,000,000 rows · mJ · 2026-10-11 21:23
Public data, from a path to a table
loads after the first, as text · ms · 2026-10-11 16:43
Measured on Apple M5 Max, 18 cores, 26.4.1. Polars, DuckDB, pandas, Spark and Arrow at their current releases, written the way their users write them; the Go, Rust, Swift and Zig ports on 16 or 18 threads, the better of the two.
04 / Signal
Eighty minutes each way.
Nothing on a Saturn-bound vehicle can wait for Earth. This is a live estimate of the link today. Write a transmission to see when it lands, and when the earliest reply could reach you.
05 / Companies
Three businesses. One engine.
n0is is the Saturn end of a family that already works on Earth.
apecyber.com
Cyber security for Earth-level attacks.
dev3lop.com
Software engineering services for Earth people.
gato.to
Collaborative platforms.
Acquired September 2026 by Next Layer US, Inc.
neo
The C++ engine, the app called NEON in our repository, measured against the field on this site.
The engine behind every number here.
06 / Contact
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