BIOMITEK is the holding company for the independent work of Ernest N. Sumrall: software for people who run real operations, white papers on infrastructure and energy, and defensive publications that put useful inventions in the public domain before anyone can lock them up.
Operations first. AI as the tool, not the point.Products
Written for operators, field engineers and managers who want to use AI on their own work, with their own files, on their own machines.
A twelve week course in building AI agents, covering the same ground as a university agentic AI certificate: tools, memory, retrieval, orchestration, MCP, multi agent systems, evaluation and governance. Every lab runs against your own documents on a Windows machine, with the exact commands and what you should see. The first three weeks are free.
Open the courseA box of plain bricks: four ready made agents, a Researcher, a Drafter, an Extractor and a Watcher, that install on your own computer and ask you questions to set themselves up. Local models by default, no API keys, no metered bills, every action logged, a stop button that works. The Socratic method for building agents.
Coming at ask.biomitek.comA study app for the USPTO registration examination built on the same engine as Agent Works: reading first, then questions, with confusing MPEP terms explained in place. Built to be comprehensive enough that someone who completes it can pass.
Release details to followThe Prior Art Project
Each record has a permanent DOI on Zenodo and is indexed under ORCID. Some are open disclosures, given away so no one can patent them. Some are held assets published for review. The license on each says which.
A distributed AI cognition architecture in which data centers develop their own specialist populations, rank and cyclically replace their weakest members, and recombine with partners to produce offspring. 57 pages, 17 figures. U.S. provisional patent application filed August 2026; published to the record August 27, 2026.
Co-inventor: Dennis McMurtryAn integrated AI campus for Arctic coastal siting: renewable hydro with small modular nuclear baseload, battery storage, closed loop deep ocean cooling, and roughly 500 MW of heat recovery for district heating, greenhouses, fish farming and desalination. Published July 14, 2026.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, held assetA capital grade proposal to arrest and reverse Dead Sea recession using gravity head desalination through the escarpment, discharge side hydropower, and cavitation intensified brine mineral recovery. Twenty-four bore reference configuration, three operating modes, three phase basin program. v2.0 published July 20, 2026.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, held assetWhy treating PFAS at the diluted end of the pipe is the wrong denominator, and a buildable nine stage specification for capturing and destroying it where it is generated. Given away as an open disclosure; no patent filed or intended. Published July 22, 2026. Also posted at TDCommons.
CC BY 4.0, open disclosureA reporting framework for PFAS treatment claims: an endpoint taxonomy, energy per molecule and energy per volume metrics, a generalized break-even, and a minimum reporting standard so that treatment results can be compared honestly. Published July 26, 2026. Also posted at TDCommons.
CC BY 4.0, open disclosurePartner projects
A civic infrastructure reporting app: photograph road damage, report it to the responsible authority, and track the fix. Built in React Native and advanced by a partner team under BIOMITEK, beginning in Texas.
roadfixusa.comAbout
Thirty years in industrial operations, from the first rig floor to sales and technical program leadership for instrumentation, controls and industrial AI. Three granted U.S. patents. An engineering management degree earned with a 4.0 while working full time. U.S. Army veteran. Elected to the Shenandoah City Council.
BIOMITEK is where the independent work lives: the products, the papers, and the practice of putting ideas into the public record rather than a drawer. The through line is the same as the day job, which is translating field problems into things that get deployed.
The person behind it is at ernestsumrall.com. The products and papers are here.