Deterministic Reasoning

Capability	ZeroTrain.ai	ML / Neural
No Training Required	✅	❌
Deterministic Output	✅	❌
Explainable Decisions	✅	⚠️
Hallucinations	❌	⚠️
Predictable Cost	✅	⚠️

Task Suitability

Task Type	ZeroTrain.ai
Policy & rule enforcement	✅
Banking & financial governance	✅
Trading & execution decisions	✅
Risk & compliance evaluation	✅
Eligibility & approval logic	✅
Operational decision automation	✅
Probabilistic forecasting	⚠️
Pattern discovery from raw data	⚠️
Natural language generation	❌
Creative writing & storytelling	❌
Image or video generation	❌
Conversational chatbots	❌
Open-ended creative reasoning	❌

✅ Designed for    ⚠️ Possible but not ideal    ❌ Not intended

Inference & Deployment

Capability	ZeroTrain.ai	ML / Neural
Sub-ms Inference	✅	❌
CPU-Only Execution	✅	❌
ONNX Parity	✅	⚠️
Edge Deployable	✅	⚠️
Replayable Decisions	✅	❌

Governance & Compliance

Requirement	ZeroTrain.ai	ML / Neural
Deterministic Replay	✅	❌
Built-in Audit Trail	✅	❌
Versioned Logic	✅	⚠️
Regulatory Readiness	✅	❌

Inference Architecture

Capability	ZeroTrain.ai	Traditional Rules Engines
Deterministic Execution	✅	✅
Logic Authoring Decoupled from Execution	✅	❌
Externally Declared Logic	✅	❌
Inference as a Portable Artifact	✅	❌
Identical Execution Across Environments	✅	⚠️
Platform Lock-In	❌	⚠️
Business-Owned Logic Lifecycle	✅	⚠️
Compile-Time Validation	✅	⚠️
Inference Portability	✅	❌

✅ Native    ⚠️ Limited / Platform-dependent    ❌ Not supported

Inference from Relational Data

Capability	ZeroTrain.ai	Traditional Rules Engines
Database as Source of Facts	✅	✅
Database as Configuration Store	✅	✅
Relational Data Defines Rule Structure	✅	❌
Inference Compiled Directly from Tables	✅	❌
Database as Authoritative Logic Source	✅	⚠️
Eliminates Rule Translation Layer	✅	❌

✅ Native    ⚠️ Partial / Indirect    ❌ Not supported