# ZooWork: instinct

> A 4B decision model from ZooWork: a merged LoRA fine-tune of Qwen3.5-4B that reads a state and returns a probability per candidate for choice, yes/no (noul) and score questions in one forward pass, without generating text. Open weights, also on ZooWork's hosted API.

- Page: https://systemonemodels.ai/zoowork/instinct
- API: https://api.systemonemodels.ai/v1/models/zoowork/instinct
- Download: `pip install systemonemodels && systemone pull zoowork/instinct`

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Maker | ZooWork (https://systemonemodels.ai/zoowork) |
| Decides | choice, score, noul |
| Architecture | instinct |
| Base model | qwen/qwen3.5-4b |
| Parameters | 4.0B |
| Context | 8K tokens |
| Licence | apache-2.0 |
| Availability | Open weights + hosted API |
| Released | 2026-09-29 |
| Latest version | 2026.09 |

## Hosted API

- Provider: ZooWork (ZooData) (https://instinct.zoowork.ai/)
- Docs: https://instinct.zoowork.ai/docs/
- Input: $0.010/MTok · Output: Free

## Reported evaluation

Suite: JevBench public set (231 items), maker's run with the official JevBench client; items also used for model selection. Numbers are the publisher's own.

- Decision accuracy: 85.7%

- Median latency: 62 ms

## Model card

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# Instinct Tuned 4B

A 4B decision model from ZooWork: a merged LoRA fine-tune of Qwen3.5-4B that reads a state and returns a probability per candidate for choice, yes/no (noul) and score questions in one forward pass, without generating text. Open weights, also on ZooWork's hosted API.

A rank-32 LoRA merged into Qwen3.5-4B, trained on about 9.4k items (data not released). The readout is over the candidate label-token logits with a temperature per question type; it needs ZooWork's reference runtime rather than generate(), transformers 5.16.1 and a CUDA BF16 GPU. Text only, 8,192-token limit, mostly English, sensitive to option order; the maker advises refitting the temperature on your own data (hard-split ECE 0.04 to 0.11 depending on option order). JevBench is a third-party benchmark; the maker's run on its public set gives 85.71%, and the maker says those items were also used for model selection, so the score is not held out. Hosted siblings with no weights of their own: instinct (frozen Qwen3.8-27B with a logit readout, training-free; maker's run 87.45%) and instinct-dual-4b (frozen Qwen3.5-4B, two option orders averaged; 82.25%). Paid API through ZooData at $0.01 per million input tokens for the 4B models and $0.03 for instinct, output free; a free preview endpoint exists. Previously skipped on 30 Sep, when the only source was a third-party issue; the maker's own repo, card and site now exist.

## What it decides

- **choice** — picks one option from a set
- **score** — places the input on an ordered scale
- **noul** — answers a yes/no question with one probability

## At a glance

| | |
|---|---|
| Parameters | 4B |
| Base model | `Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B` |
| Maker | ZooWork |
| Released | 2026-09-29 |
| License | apache-2.0 |
| Reported accuracy | 85.7% |
| Reported latency | 62 ms p50 direct upstream on one H200 (four replicas, warmed, serial); p95 about 110 ms, estimated by the maker |

## Hosted API

Served by **ZooWork (ZooData)** — $0.01/MTok input, $0/MTok output. [Get access](https://instinct.zoowork.ai/) · [API docs](https://instinct.zoowork.ai/docs/).

## Get the weights

```bash
pip install systemonemodels
systemone pull zoowork/instinct
```

The files are served from the maker's Hugging Face repository, [`srpone/instinct-tuned-4b`](https://huggingface.co/srpone/instinct-tuned-4b), and verified against the checksums recorded here.

## Read more

- [Model card](https://huggingface.co/srpone/instinct-tuned-4b)
- [Source and runtime](https://github.com/SerendipityOneInc/instinct)
- [Instinct site and hosted API](https://instinct.zoowork.ai/)

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