TIMELINE

A four-year plan, shipped in public.

AURORA is not a launch event. It is a multi-year migration of an entire field onto open infrastructure. Here is what has happened, what we are doing right now, and what comes next.

private pilot · Q2 2026public alpha · Q4 2026field-wide · 2030
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Q1 — 2026
Genesis
Shipped
  • First eight disease specifications frozen
  • AURORA architecture v0 ratified
  • Founding council convened
Q2 — 2026
Private Pilot · we are here
in progress
  • AURORA-CRANIO and AURORA-GLIO prototypes deployed at first pilot sites
  • Hydrocephalus compartment model in alpha
  • Foundational datasets onboarded under federation
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Q3 — 2026
Pilot expansion
Planned
  • Open the pilot to 12 institutions across 4 continents
  • Spina bifida and tethered cord modules into alpha
  • First public RFCs for non-pilot modules
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Q4 — 2026
Public alpha
Planned
  • Repositories opened publicly under MIT
  • Documentation, model cards and ethics audits published
  • External RFC process opens
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2027
Field-wide expansion
Planned
  • Modules 9–16 ramped via council RFCs
  • Benchmark suites stabilised across diseases
  • First multicentre prospective studies designed on AURORA
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2030
The whole field
Planned
  • Every common neurosurgical disease covered
  • Federated trial fabric live in 100+ hospitals
  • AURORA as default substrate for new neurosurgical AI
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RESEARCH
What we're working on
Whitepapers and RFCs from the pilot.
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Working notes
Weekly notes from the modules and council.
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