small modelsthat decide.

togi is a research lab building small, single-job models for indian languages. not chatbots. models that take a message in hindi, tamil, telugu or hinglish and return one decision, with a number you can trust.

  1. 01

    decisions, not generations.

    a typed question in, one calibrated answer out. no prompt, no sampling, no chain of thought. one forward pass.

  2. 02

    one model, one job.

    the way desert ant builds for on-device audio and vision, we build for indic text. each model does one thing and publishes how well.

  3. 03

    built for how india types.

    lowercase, no punctuation, chat spellings, roman script for hindi and tamil, script switching mid-line. the tokenizer is built for it first.

  4. 04

    we publish the test we lose too.

    every model card carries the benchmark where a competitor beat us. if there is none yet, we say that instead.

A blade edge resting on a wet whetstone

togi

to sharpen is to remove everything that is not the edge.

01 · research

three things we work on.

every area ends in a shipped model with a public number. the areas are the lab; the models are the output.

01decide-v1

decision

routing, scoring, classifying. any question with a fixed set of answers, answered with a probability for every option.

02tongue

language

which language and which script to answer in. the script penalty: what every model loses when devanagari becomes roman hindi.

03toxic · redact

safety

abuse, threats and spam scored rather than generated. phone numbers, upi ids and addresses found and nothing else.

02 · the catalogue

one model, one job.

each model answers a typed question and returns a number you can act on. open weights where the status says so.

4B torso · 36M trained · 171 ms medianopen weights

decide-v1

intent, urgency, reply language. any fixed set of answers.

weights
  • language · 9 languagestraining

    tongue

    which language and script to answer in. nine languages, dialect aware.

  • safety · score 1–5planned

    toxic

    abuse, threat and spam, scored one to five, never generated.

  • safety · spanplanned

    redact

    find the phone, the upi id, the address. nothing else.

03 · first result

english-first decision models fall apart on tamil.

753 real-style support messages, four language buckets, nine models scored. this is what decide-v1 was built to pass, and where it still loses.

decide-v1 · live · whatsapp

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what is this customer asking for? pick one of eight. score urgency one to five. choose the reply language.

172 ms · one forward pass

intent · 8 options

  • order_status0.00
  • payment_issue0.00
  • refund1.00
  • delivery0.00
  • account_login0.00
  • complaint0.00
  • product_question0.00
  • other0.00
urgency3 / 5
reply intamil
intent accuracy
0.98
+0.12 vs pplx-decider-flash 0.86
tamil intent
0.98
+0.17 vs clef 27B 0.81
urgency, exact match
0.80
+0.52 vs pplx-decider-flash 0.28
massive indic, 18-way
0.933
+0.056 vs yama 0.877

togi support benchmark · 753 messages · 8 intents · 4 language buckets

modelintenttamil intenturgency exacthard cases /24
decide-v10.980.980.8020
clef 27B0.880.810.340
pplx-decider-flash0.860.860.280
yama0.780.840.216
  • 0.848 indiccopa, cause and effect · pplx 0.737
  • 0.842 indiccopa, tamil · pplx 0.622
  • 98.8% answers kept after shuffling options · pplx 91.2%

we publish the test we lose too. on one unseen hinglish retail set, pplx-decider-flash scores 0.955 to our 0.940. full tables at togilabs.ai/research.

05 · about the lab

a small lab, sharpening one edge.

togi means to sharpen. we do not try to make a model that does everything. we take one decision that indian products make a million times a day and make the model that gets it right, in the language the customer actually typed, and we publish the numbers.

A whetstone on a wooden stand under one lamp
the bench · togi · to sharpen