SPAN

SPAN

Put AI agents
safely to work.

Across systems. Across organisations.
Under your control.

SPAN coordinates autonomous work across organisational boundaries, with authority, policy, and evidence built into the way work progresses.

Australian-developed & ownedGlobal patents granted & pendingWorking coordination model

THE NEXT STEP FOR AUTONOMOUS AI

Intelligence can act.
Now it needs to
work together.

Useful work rarely stays inside one system. It crosses teams, suppliers, institutions, and jurisdictions—each with its own rules.

For AI agents to do that work, they need to discover the right capabilities, act within their authority, adapt when circumstances change, and establish whether the requested outcome has been achieved.

That is the infrastructure GT Labs is building.

TAMING AGENT SWARMS

Independent agents.
Accountable teamwork.

01 / DISCOVER

Find the capability.
Keep control local.

Describe the work required. Discover capabilities across organisations while each participant retains control of its systems and data.

02 / COORDINATE

Make permission part
of every step.

Check identity, authority, and policy before governed actions proceed. When the work exceeds its mandate, ask for approval.

03 / VERIFY

Know what happened.
Know what’s complete.

Use evidence to advance the work. Evaluate the result against the request’s satisfaction conditions, with a trace of the decisions along the way.

Inside the SPAN architecture →

SEE THE COORDINATION

A provider fails.
The work has a way forward.

An illustrative research request crosses independent providers. One becomes unavailable. Watch SPAN preserve completed work, find an alternative, and wait for revised approval.

Watch the 45-second walkthrough ↗

Recorded execution of the working state-machine model.

WHERE IT MATTERS

Work crosses boundaries.
Control should travel with it.

01

Research & collaboration

Coordinate specialist capabilities across institutions, with permissions and evidence attached to the work. Keep local data under local policy.

02

Financial services

Coordinate work across teams and service providers within delegated limits. Make human approval and verifiable completion part of the process.

03

Security & sovereign capability

Govern autonomous work across separately controlled environments. Enforce domain rules, respond to withdrawn authority, and retain evidence of decisions.

Application opportunities for development and validation with partners.

FROM INVENTION TO IMPLEMENTATION

A working core.
A practical next step.

Years of Australian research are becoming infrastructure for autonomous work. Our next step is to validate it with real systems and real partners.

DEMONSTRATED

Coordination decisions in executable code.

The simulator exercises work progression, policy decisions, failure recovery, approvals, and evidence acceptance.

PROTECTED

A continuing programme of invention.

GT Systems holds granted and pending global patents. New SPAN applications were filed in September 2026.

NEXT

MVP and partner proof of concept.

Connect real capabilities, implement distributed enforcement, and measure useful work, efficiency, and control in practice.

ABOUT GT LABS

Australian thinking.
Global ambition.

GT Labs is the research and development arm of GT Systems, the Australian company that owns the intellectual property and funds the work.

Founded by telecommunications and Internet entrepreneur Rhett Sampson, GT Systems has pursued a fundamental idea: the network itself can participate in intelligent work.

SPAN brings that research into the era of autonomous systems—a fabric for discovering, authorising, coordinating, and verifying work across domains.

Meet GT Systems ↗
A custom network globe centred on Australia, with Europe and Africa to the left, Asia above, and the Americas to the right