Tempero | AI-Powered Safety Verification for Automated Mobility
AI-Powered Safety Verification

Automated driving systems fail in ways no test plan anticipates. OSCFuzzer exposes the vulnerabilities — and uncovers the structure behind them.

Tempero gives OEMs, simulation vendors, and insurers the tools to surface critical safety failures fast — and to understand the behavioral landscape that produces them, before regulators, courts, or the road does.

>90%
Simulation reduction
on UNECE No. 157
2
Levels of value —
OPEX & Engineering Intelligence
L3–L5
Classical ADAS,
AV & E2E neural systems
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Why existing approaches fail

Three structural gaps
no test plan can close

The transition to L3–L5 autonomy is not an incremental engineering challenge. It is a categorical shift that breaks the assumptions underlying every existing verification framework.

01

The >10⁹ Scenario Problem

L3–L5 safety certification implies scenario spaces of over one billion concrete tests. Exhaustive simulation is not merely expensive — it is structurally impossible. No budget, no datacenter, no timeline makes it feasible.

02

Safety critical OTA Updates Reset the Clock

Every software update — classical or neural — resets the certification clock. SDVs evolve at software pace. Continuous re-verification is not optional; it is the new baseline. Point-in-time testing is structurally insufficient.

03

E2E Neural Systems: No Logic to Audit

End-to-end neural systems like Wayve and Tesla FSD v12 are trained, not built. There is no code to audit — only weights. Regulators under EU AI Act, ISO 21448, and UN ECE WP.29 demand principled understanding of failure boundaries. “It learned from 10 billion miles” is not a safety case.

Core Technology

OSCFuzzer — Intelligent Scenario Testing

Engineers describe high-level test goals in natural language — safety, comfort, performance. OSCFuzzer converts them into precise Signal Temporal Logic (STL) formulas and autonomously explores the scenario space to pinpoint critical edge cases and hidden vulnerabilities.

OSCFuzzer Plug & Fuzz Architecture

OSCFuzzer “Plug & Fuzz” Architecture

OSCFuzzer

Powered by intelligent fuzzing, optimization algorithms, and machine learning, OSCFuzzer autonomously explores the vast scenario space. Fully compatible with ASAM OpenSCENARIO 1.x — plug directly into your existing simulation and testing pipelines.

Declarative Testing

Focus on what matters — not on coding exhaustive test scripts. Natural language to STL automatically.

Targeted Exploration

Intelligently explores the most promising areas of the scenario space using hybrid optimization + ML.

Native Compatibility

Seamless plug-in into existing simulation pipelines via ASAM OpenSCENARIO 1.x.

Actionable Insights

Decision trees, heatmaps, and causal clustering visualizations to interpret vulnerabilities quickly.

What OSCFuzzer delivers

Two levels of value.
The second is the one no competing tool offers.

Every OEM understands simulation cost reduction. What sets OSCFuzzer apart is what it delivers as a byproduct of that search — engineering intelligence that no team could generate manually, regardless of experience or time.

Level 1 — Operational Efficiency

Save Simulation Budget — for Any System, After Every Update

Find the most critical safety violations in a fraction of the simulation budget. Benchmarked against UNECE Regulation No. 157, OSCFuzzer achieves >90% reduction in simulation volume — cutting CPU, GPU, cloud compute, and simulator licensing costs without sacrificing coverage.

This applies to classical ADAS controllers, AV planners, and E2E neural systems alike. And because safety critical OTA update resets the certification clock — for any software-defined vehicle — OSCFuzzer’s efficiency gain compounds with every update cycle, not just at initial certification.

Classical ADAS & L3 Controllers

Rules-based and hybrid systems benefit immediately. Find failure scenarios in hours, not months. Critical OTA updates require re-verification — OSCFuzzer makes that continuous cycle economically viable.

E2E Neural Systems

Each retraining cycle changes the model’s behavioral boundaries. OSCFuzzer treats the trained model as a system to be discovered — re-mapping failure boundaries after each update, turning a compliance nightmare into a managed workflow.

Level 2 — Design-Space Illumination

Access Knowledge Your Engineers Cannot Reach Alone

Existing tools require engineers to define the question first — select two attributes, specify a grid, run simulations, read a frontier. The engineer’s intuition bounds what the tool can find. OSCFuzzer inverts this.

As it searches for critical failures, it simultaneously maps the high-dimensional behavioral landscape of your system — autonomously surfacing which variables interact, and under which precise combinations of conditions those interactions become safety-critical. Not a grid you define in advance. A structure you did not know existed.

SDVs and AV systems involve a genuinely new class of complexity: Ego vehicle dynamics, pedestrian behavior, traffic density, weather, time of day, V2X connectivity, and roadside infrastructure — all interacting simultaneously, in combinations that have no historical precedent. No engineer, however experienced, can pre-enumerate what matters here. The design space is too large, too new, and too non-linear for intuition to navigate.

OSCFuzzer does not wait for your engineers to ask the right question. It finds the structure of your system’s behavioral space — surfacing correlations between attribute X and attribute Y that only manifest when conditions Z, W, and K are simultaneously met. Insights that no predefined grid could surface, and that no team could reach by hand — regardless of how much time they had.

Design-Space Illumination for End-to-End Neural Systems

E2E systems introduce a fourth dimension: policy brittleness. In classical systems, you audit code. In E2E, there is no code — only a learned policy with catastrophic holes in specific feature combinations (low sun angle + specific road texture + cyclist, for example).

Illumination stress-tests the learned policy directly — mapping exactly where the neural network’s “intuition” fails. This is categorically different from attention maps, which show what the model perceives, not where its decision-making breaks down.

Continuous re-auditing after each retraining cycle turns Illumination from a one-time audit into a continuous service — providing OEMs with a Technical Passport that satisfies EU AI Act transparency requirements, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), and UN ECE WP.29 demands for principled understanding of failure boundaries.

Safety monitors only catch what they were designed to catch. Illumination works below the monitor layer — on the policy itself.

Applications

Beyond testing — risk scoring and liability

OSCFuzzer’s core technology powers two further applications for insurers and OEMs navigating the liability landscape of Level 3 automation.

CARE

CARE — Contextual Automation Risk Engine

Tempero’s Pay-As-Your-System-Drives platform gives insurers precise, dynamic underwriting factors based on real-world performance of connected and automated vehicles. Built on OSCFuzzer technology, CARE moves beyond static historical models by simulating rich combinations of driver behavior, driving conditions, automation features, and V2X connectivity.

CARE Insurance Model

Fairer Pricing

Premiums aligned with actual safety performance of each policyholder’s vehicle and driving context.

Smarter Risk Selection

Deeper insight into automation and driver factors to optimize underwriting.

Regulatory Alignment

Scenario libraries mapped to automated vehicle safety certification frameworks.

Dynamic Factors

Risk scores update as vehicle software evolves — aligned with the safety critical OTA update cycle.

CAUSAL ANALYSIS

Post-Mortem Assessment & Liability Protection

As the industry moves toward Level 3 automation, OEMs and insurers face a “Pandora’s box” of product-liability lawsuits. Causal Analysis applies counterfactual reasoning to raw event data — transforming telemetry and environment logs into modifiable structural equations that enable objective “what-if” analysis.

Causal Modeling Architecture

Causal Modeling & Accident Replay Framework

Liability Protection

Transform high-risk AI incidents into clear, interpretable causal reports for legal defense.

Counterfactual Logic

“But-for” testing: determine if different system decisions would have prevented the incident.

Accident Replay

High-fidelity digital twin reconstruction from multiple sensor perspectives.

Ascribed Responsibility

Quantify influence of exogenous variables versus system actions to objectively ascribe accountability.

Industrial Validation

Benchmarked against official
regulatory certification standards

Not simulated benchmarks — validated against the actual test suites used for regulatory approval.

UN Regulation No. 157 — ALKS

Efficiency in ADAS/AD Verification

Addressing the “needle in a haystack” challenge of L3 certification. Tempero’s verification suite identified the only 2 critical safety cases out of over 40,000 valid scenarios — using a fraction of traditional computational resources.

94%
Compute & license
cost reduction
2,434
Runs vs 40,000+
traditional
0.005%
Critical scenarios
in full space
Verification Coverage Analysis

1M+ Scenarios

Generated to explore the complete ALKS configuration space

40,000+ Valid

Simulation scenarios identified within regulatory constraints

AEB Urban Risk Assessment

Fine-Grained Risk Assessment of AEB in Urban Settings

Using OSCFuzzer, Tempero conducted a detailed assessment of Automated Emergency Braking in two urban settings with varying traffic densities — demonstrating context-specific safety evaluation that global statistics cannot provide.

~12k
Optimization-driven
virtual simulations
2
Urban contexts
compared

Setting td1 — AEB effective

Setting td1

Setting td2 — AEB limited

Setting td2

Context-Specific Insight

Unlike global IIHS statistics — results are tied to specific traffic and environmental conditions.

V2I / V2V Ready

Assessment accounts for new mobility contexts including connected infrastructure

About Tempero

Founded on a conviction

Tempero (Latin: “to temper” or “refrain”) reflects our core mission: to mitigate the risks of high-risk AI systems. We identified a structural gap in the AI landscape long before the EU AI Act was finalized—a gap between academic legal frameworks and the rigorous technical proof required to ensure cyber-physical safety.

Our founding team brings deep R&D backgrounds in Automated Reasoning, Formal Testing, and Constraint Solving, with previous roles at Microsoft Research and leading autonomous systems institutes. We didn’t just build a tool for cars; we built a framework to translate high-level regulatory theory into executable safety evidence for AI decision-making in the physical world.

While our vision is broad, our execution is strategic. We prioritize Automotive SDVs today to leverage mature standards like OpenSCENARIO and meet the urgent global demand for scalable, certified safety.

Tempero Ecosystem

Our Team

Youssef Hamadi

Youssef Hamadi

Co-Founder

Sathia Subbarayan

Sathia Subbarayan

Co-Founder

Bala Murali

Bala Murali

Engineer

Santhoshi K S

Santhoshi K S

Engineer