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Research

For engineers and researchers evaluating AI systems. Read experiments, method audits, and research proposals. Each report distinguishes measured findings from work still to be tested.

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5 field reports

Publications

  1. The metric returned twelve for every prompt because twelve was built into the metric

    2026-08-31 · Interpretability. A GPT-2 interpretability run found a quiet middle and a large final rewrite, then exposed two measurement defects in its own settling metrics. Method auditFeatured research
  2. An adaptive reader learned where to look. It did not learn how to scale.

    2026-08-30 · Adaptive compute. A hard-read recurrent controller reached oracle cost on lookup tasks, then failed under larger worlds, random identifiers, and seed controls. Negative result
  3. Why a global waveform memory loses its compute advantage on exact worlds

    2026-08-29 · Representations. A formal and mathematical audit found that exact lookup removes the claimed compute advantage of a global Fourier world representation. Formal result
  4. We counted 264,224 agent turns. The causal labels are not ready to publish as causal findings.

    2026-08-28 · Agent reliability. A cross-framework workflow corpus has useful coverage, but regex labels, autonomous subturns, and missing turn-level bytes limit causal claims. Method audit
  5. A neural network's privileged self-knowledge may be operationally empty

    2026-08-27 · Research method. A position paper tests three operational definitions of model self-knowledge and leaves a pre-registered recurrence experiment as the empirical target. Position paper and pre-registration

What we study

Research areas

Reliable action

How AI moves from an answer to a result without hiding failure behind fluent output.

Intelligent workspaces

Context, continuity, and interfaces that understand the work around the prompt.

Agent systems

Tools, coordination, recovery, boundaries, and the structure required for longer work.

Evaluation

Experiments that turn ambitious claims into measurements, including negative results.

Information, actions, and decisions come together.

Contact · Toronto

ideas, built to launch

Describe the task, the systems involved, and what is getting in the way.