About

I'm Hilal Agil. I grew up in the Maldives — a place that gave me a deep and lasting connection with nature. I was drawn early to science fiction and to philosophy about the future of human civilization, and much of my adult life has gone into frontier technology, building toward a future I could picture long before I could build it. Those interests still sit underneath everything I make.

I've been programming since I was twelve — self-taught, starting by coding websites. Today I work as an entrepreneur and technologist, focused on frontier technologies like AI and blockchain, and I trained in Data Science and Machine Learning at the University of Oxford.

Before any of that, there was music. I founded the heavy metal band Nothnegal at a young age, and it went on to tour the world. The vision I've carried through technology was first laid out there, and the same thread runs through everything since — music, technology, academia. I look for the problems that matter to our shared future, and I build toward solutions.

The work, in order

A rough chronology of the ventures and projects — most recent first.

1. Tenzro2024 — present

   Founder

   Decentralized AI and distributed computing — an open protocol and network that runs intelligence across many machines, so the future of AI isn’t controlled by a few.

2. Praecise2025 — present

   Founder

   A nervous system for AI — the orchestration layer that decides how a model is put to work: answer from your own data first, reach for a bigger model only when it helps, and keep going until the answer holds and can be verified, all inside the rules you set. It brings together the data-grounding work of Ipnops and the portable, consistent memory of Rivier.

3. The Siren2024 — present

   Creator

   Artistry — living models of how an artist decides and how they sound, mapped into ownable, licensable layers of the catalog. The Siren Graph captures an artist’s judgment; Siren Acoustics captures their authenticated sound-craft, from instruments to entire rigs. A research project grown over two years alongside the rest of the work, out of a lifelong passion for music.

4. Naturecode Project2025 — present

   Founder

   Environmental intelligence — frontier technology turned toward conservation and biodiversity, through research, publications, open standards, and open-source tools, continuing the work begun with The Eco Org in the Maldives.

5. Furcate2025 — present

   Founder

   Edge AI — intelligence that runs on the devices at the edge, where the data is made, rather than sending everything back to the cloud.

6. Boli2021 — present

   Founder

   A blockchain-native rethinking of ownership — alternative asset infrastructure built on the Canton Network, pursuing the economic ideas first laid out in the Ectopia whitepaper.

7. The Eco Org2019

   Founder

   Founded in the Maldives to pursue the ideas described in the Ectopia whitepaper — frontier technology in service of environmental conservation and self-sustaining communities.

8. Ream2018 — 2019

   Founder

   A bet on patterns that would come to define machine learning and AI — placed nearly a decade before the current wave of agentic commerce arrived.

9. Nothnegal2006 — 2021

   Founder

   A heavy metal band founded in the Maldives that went on to tour the world — where the blueprint for everything since was first laid down, in music.

Where this is going

In 2019 I published the Ectopia whitepaper — a framework for decentralized, self-sustaining, self-governed communities, from circular economies to self-sovereign identity. It didn't materialize exactly as described; blueprints rarely do. But The Eco Org and Boli were launched to pursue its ideas, and most of what I build today — open networks, governed data, privacy designed in from the start — descends from that document.

The work looks varied, but it comes from one picture of the future, and a few convictions run through all of it. Intelligence, computation, and data are becoming the foundation of everyday life, and their shape shouldn't be decided by a handful of centralized actors.

So I keep building toward the same few things. That control over intelligence and computing should be spread across many hands — not held by a handful of companies who can revoke it at will. That the value they create should open new economic opportunities that are fair to everyone who takes part, not just to whoever sits closest to the switch. That AI should be verifiable — its answers grounded, checkable, and accountable, so a confident guess never passes for the truth. And that all of it should help us live with nature, not at its expense.

Each project is one of those convictions made concrete. Tenzro decentralizes AI and computing. Praecise makes intelligence verifiable and grounds it in real data. Furcate brings AI to the edge, where the world actually produces its data. The Naturecode Project turns the same tools toward conservation and biodiversity. And The Siren carries the fairness thread into music — giving artists ownership of how they decide and how they sound. Different fronts, one direction.

I'm a firm believer in open-source technology, and I keep embracing it — Tenzro's protocol and network are open source under Apache 2.0, and I contribute to the open-source community through the standards, protocols, tools, and frameworks I build. Most of that work lives on my GitHub.

Find me on Medium and GitHub, or through Tenzro and the Naturecode Project.