About MeTal
We build AI that
knows its limits.
MeTal LLC is an AI company based in California. We make AI products and infrastructure that take safety seriously — not as a marketing line, but as a technical commitment.
Who we are
A small team building something that matters.
MeTal started with one idea: that AI being useful and AI being safe aren't in conflict. They're the same goal, approached from different angles.
We're a small company. We don't have a hundred engineers or a billion-dollar compute budget. What we do have is a clear set of values about how AI should behave — and we hold ourselves to them.
We build Aurora, our AI system, and MeTal Cloud, a hosting platform for developers. Everything we ship is designed to be transparent, predictable, and honest about what it can and can't do.
Our approach
Constitutional AI as a foundation.
We follow Anthropic's Constitutional AI framework — a written set of principles that AI systems are evaluated and trained against. Not just filtered outputs, but values baked into the model itself.
This means Aurora isn't just trained to be helpful. It's trained to be honest when it's uncertain, to decline requests that could cause harm, and to support human oversight rather than undermine it.
We publish our principles openly. If our AI does something that violates them, we want to know — and we'll fix it.
What we stand for.
We will always choose a safer, less capable system over a more powerful one that poses unacceptable risks. Capability is meaningless if it causes harm.
We're open about what our AI can do, what it can't do, and how it makes decisions. No black boxes. No marketing spin.
AI should amplify human judgment, not replace it. Every system we build keeps humans in the loop and makes it easy to correct mistakes.
When something we build causes harm, that's on us. We take responsibility for the systems we ship and maintain them accordingly.