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+# Dataflare
+**Sovereign Intelligence Unit**
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+> "Intelligence that speaks our language, not just translates it."
+
+## About
+Dataflare is an engineering-first AI research lab building sovereign intelligence infrastructure for the Middle East. We address the hidden "Arabic Tax" in global AI models by forging cognitively native infrastructure—from silicon to prompt.
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+## Core Initiatives
+
+### 1. The Tokenization Tax (DF-Arc)
+**The Problem:** Standard models (like `cl100k_base`) fragment Arabic into 2-3x more tokens than English, inflating inference costs and latency.
+**The Solution:** `DF-Arc` is a morphology-aware tokenizer that achieves near 1:1 word-to-token ratios, reducing token usage by ~40% and unlocking higher throughput.
+
+### 2. Sovereign Datasets
+We curate high-fidelity, legally compliant corpora rather than scraping common web noise. Our data pipeline covers:
+*   **Legal Archives** (MSA)
+*   **Dialectal Transcripts** (Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine, North African)
+*   **Cultural Heritage** (Literature, Poetry, History)
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+### 3. Native Alignment
+Our models are aligned by native domain experts—lawyers, doctors, and poets—to ensure reasoning reflects local reality and values, avoiding the "cultural flattening" of translated English.
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+**© 2026 Dataflare Lab.** Sovereignty is non-negotiable.