Neural Axis®
Neural Axis® is a cognitive infrastructure company operating at the mind–machine boundary, focused on cognitive agency and cognitive security—the preparedness infrastructure that helps humans and AI systems remain steerable, trustworthy, and resilient under high influence, uncertainty, and fast capability growth.
Hands-on Leadership and Delivery:
⦿ Agentic AI & LLM development: behavioral specification, evaluation/launch gates, red-teaming workflows, guardrails, monitoring;
⦿ Prompt & agentic engineering frameworks grounded in cognitive/neuroscience and human factors;
⦿ Product strategy & management: OKRs, roadmaps, customer discovery, and execution across research/engineering;
⦿ R&D prototyping: AI, neurotech/BCI concepts, XR (VR/AR), robotics, spatial/contextual computing, and decentralized governance systems;
⦿ Org design & facilitation: people/process design leveraging complexity-aware and “Teal”-inspired operating principles;
⦿ Global challenges / collective intelligence: platform and systems work aimed at cooperation at scale.
Dr. Gabriel Axel Montes, PhD, is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, author, musician, and researcher and practitioner of consciousness development.
Gabriel Axel Montes, PhD, is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and cognitive science/AI researcher whose cross-cutting multi-disciplinary work centers around Cognitive Security, sitting at the intersection of consciousness, LLM behavior, AI alignment, and global security. He is the Founder at Neural Axis, where he conducts frontier technology R&D for CogSec solutions (including inventing patented neural identity technology), startups, and organizations. Gabriel has led systems that translate cognitive frameworks into deployable AI products, including at AI firms SingularityNET and VERSES. He has guided multimillion dollar budgets and helped ventures raise 8-figures and go from 0-to-1 and scale to over 100 in headcount. He has over 10,000 hours of practice experience with the consciousness cultivation methods of the world's wisdom traditions, and is a co-author of "The Consciousness Explosion" with AGI forerunner Ben Goertzel. He has toured various universities, including Harvard, Utrecht, Aarhus, U. Florida, U. Newcastle, and Hong Kong Polytechnic; has published works on AI cognition, biometrics, and alignment; spoken at venues including the United Nations AI for Good and Stanford; and raised grant funding for R&D across neurotech, VR/AR, robotics, AI governance, blockchain, and cognitive security. Gabriel is a co-founder of and advisor to AI startups, and a Board Member of the ASI Institute. To learn more, visit linkedin.com/in/gabrielaxel.
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