Iron Sun Works
Founded in 2025 by Andre Foti and Jana Cook. Ohio LLC. A two-person company working on the gap between how humans think and how models reason — three essays on that gap and what it means for AI alignment, and Novalyst, an AI memory-and-context system in private alpha that learns who you are and what you're working toward and serves it to whatever AI you use.
The name comes from spectroscopy. When sunlight passes through the sun's atmosphere, iron atoms absorb and re-emit specific wavelengths — creating dark lines in the spectrum that reveal the sun's composition. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captures these emissions directly, producing images of the corona at iron wavelengths that show magnetic structure invisible to the naked eye.
The parallel is the work: making invisible cognitive structure visible. What's happening in the gap between human intent and model output. What's happening in the gap between a thought and its organization. Iron in the sun, doing the work you can't see.
171 Angstroms — Iron IX
The sun's corona imaged at the spectral line of iron atoms that have lost eight electrons. False-color gold. The magnetic field lines — overlaid from helioseismic data — show structure that's always there but only visible at the right wavelength.
Image: NASA/SDO/AIA/HMI — Public domain