Valen Systems develops predictive-maintenance software and the computing systems beneath it.
Arcturus helps operators investigate machine conditions, maintain an operating history and follow up after maintenance. Our computing-efficiency work examines how workloads execute, what resources they consume and whether the completed work is correct.
Arcturus keeps machine observations with their source, time and units so operators can trace a finding to the condition behind it. History, inspections and fresh follow-up help a team investigate a change and record what happened after maintenance. Available measurements and actions depend on the host, permissions and build.
Rubian and Kestowv provide persistent workspaces and documented service and recovery controls. A recovery procedure needs to identify the state and dependencies to restore, the checks that establish useful operation and the conditions that require an operator to stop. The service reference describes the supported commands and their effects.
Kestowv addresses execution and coordination beneath the application. Our workload evaluations compare correct output, responsiveness and resource use under stated conditions. That makes contention, repeated operations and the cost of completing useful work part of the same investigation.
Rubian/Kestowv’s socket-based interfaces let applications communicate when they implement the supported protocol. An integration must account for command and response formats, authentication, permissions and deployment requirements. Those details determine which observations an application can read and which actions it may request.
Rubian’s persistent user spaces and agent VMOS organize identities, files, projects and running work on a shared machine. Readable commands expose the state available to each user. The workspace and permissions references explain how to inspect that state and which operations a role can perform.
We study how coordination and contention affect execution in Rubian and Kestowv. Published measurements need their workload, build, run conditions and correctness checks to be useful. One published full-kernel campaign recorded a median 4,387,675 mixed-subsystem operations per second across three runs, covering 116 modules with zero errors; the result applies to that workload and does not establish an application-wide speedup or a vendor comparison.
The Rubian/Kestowv service reference covers health-gated releases and bounded retries. Recovery checks must also establish which state survived, whether dependencies are ready and whether useful work has resumed. A successful restart is one observation within that check.
The command and networking references describe interfaces a developer can call and an operator can inspect. Integration work includes the request format, expected response, permissions, failure behavior and recovery path. These details help a team decide what it can connect and what it must validate.
A machine investigation may require information about its network, power, cooling or operating environment. The scope must identify which of those conditions can be observed and who can inspect or change them. Hardware partnerships and a Valen sensor line are future development directions.
Co-founder Troy Mallory’s builtin-tracking work was merged through JRuby PR 9174, expanded across runtime fast paths and shipped in JRuby 10.1+. The deployment record identifies the contribution and upstream changes. Product documentation, benchmark records and released tools provide further work to inspect; JRuby adoption does not establish a customer relationship or validate Arcturus maintenance outcomes.
The starting point is a machine condition, workload constraint or operating responsibility that needs investigation.
Applications are hitting capacity, latency is rising, or the next hardware purchase needs a better technical justification.
Factories, equipment operators and field teams depend on software that needs to stay responsive and recover cleanly.
Concurrent work, inter-agent communication, resource contention and security need a coherent operating model.
Useful output, hardware condition, service continuity and maintenance decisions matter across many machines.
Network, compute, power and cooling dependencies need to be understood together, with clear operating and escalation responsibilities.
Published tools provide a self-service entry point, with licenses and operating-system support listed for each release.
Founder
William created Core and leads company strategy, partnerships and commercialization. Before Valen Systems, he founded a family office and worked across industrial projects, finance and logistics. His role connects product development with customer needs, project scope and delivery.
Co-founder · Technical direction
Troy Mallory, also known as CufeHaco, invented Rubian and Kestowv and leads the technical direction of Project Valux. His systems work includes execution, persistence and runtime behavior. His builtin-tracking contribution shipped upstream in JRuby 10.1+.
William’s Core work explores an app-switcher made programmable by AI. Troy’s Rubian and Kestowv work addresses the operating environment and execution beneath applications. Their collaboration connects the interface used to direct work with the systems responsible for carrying it out.
Arcturus applies the systems foundation to predictive maintenance. Core remains an interface product in development, and Project Valux carries the broader operating-system ambition. Valen Systems also undertakes paid website, SEO and software projects; the work portfolio documents examples, including Coast Glow and our original work for previous client Masterflow Plumbing.
Tell us what runs, what’s slowing down or failing, and what a good result would look like. Use the contact form, email the team or request a conversation; you don’t need to arrive with a finished specification.
We identify the workload, access requirements, constraints, deliverable and acceptance criteria before work begins. The proposal names the project contact, engineering responsibilities, communication channels and any specialist or on-site work.
We establish the current behavior and the evidence that will show whether it improved. Our published fixed-scope technical offers target seven business days after complete inputs and written start confirmation, with a 30-minute review call and one clarification round within 14 days. Larger implementations and ongoing support have their own agreed schedule and response expectations.
The handoff records the findings, changes, recovery steps, remaining limits and who owns the next action. Implementation, ongoing support and maintenance can follow under a separate agreed scope.
We develop Arcturus for predictive maintenance and Rubian/Kestowv for the operating foundation and execution work beneath it. Core explores a programmable interface; Project Valux is the broader operating-system project.
No. A software company with overloaded servers, an industrial application that must stay online or an AI service coordinating concurrent work can have the same underlying operating problems. Start with the system that needs improvement, even if it’s one machine.
An operator can follow a sourced observation into a finding, inspect the machine condition, record the maintenance action and compare fresh follow-up. The available measurements and controls depend on the installed build, host and permissions. A proposed engagement identifies the systems and integrations involved.
Yes, through socket-based interfaces when the application implements the supported protocol. The integration needs to follow the interface’s command, response, authentication and deployment requirements; talk to us about your application.
Yes. Read the product documentation, benchmark records, upstream contribution stories and released tools. We can then agree a specific evaluation against your workload.
The tools catalog lists published projects, licenses and operating-system support.
We review the problem and discuss a suitable scope, required inputs, ownership and next steps. You’ll agree timing, communication and response expectations with the team before work begins.
Yes. Valen-systems.com is the product and engagement site; valensystemsinc.com contains the company information, research and documentation. Both belong to Valen Systems Inc.; Valen is the AI, not the company name.
Talk to the people doing the work.