// RESEARCH

A lab earns the name.

The word laboratory is not decoration. A lab earns the name by holding open questions long enough to answer them properly — by treating a hard problem as a thing to be measured, modeled, and understood, not merely shipped.

We build production systems for clients. That work pays the bills and, more importantly, surfaces the questions worth chasing. The engagement is the occasion; the research is what makes the next engagement cheaper, safer, and better than the last. Each thread is framed the same way: the question, the approach, what we learned or built, and where it is going.

FIG. EMERGENCE ON A LATTICE
REF: RSCH-00Spatial lattice with emergent clusters

01 // Open threads

REF: RSCH-01
AI VISIBILITY & GSO

How do you measure whether — and why — an LLM cites a brand?

Buying research increasingly happens inside AI assistants, not search results, where there is no rank and no console. We decompose 'AI visibility' into ~14 proprietary, formulaic metrics — embedding-alignment and token-probability style measures — so the question becomes diagnosable rather than opaque.

STATUS: ACTIVE FRAMEWORK + ANALYTICS BUILD
REF: RSCH-02
ACOUSTIC SPEECH ANALYSIS

What does the speech signal carry that a transcript throws away?

Transcribe-then-analyze discards almost everything that makes speech speech — tremor, hesitation, the hedged word. We route audio through a Praat phonetics sidecar to extract real vocal features, then fuse them with the transcript so feedback can say not just 'you hedged' but 'you hedged, and your voice confirmed it.'

STATUS: ACTIVE BUILD // PHONETICS SIDECAR
REF: RSCH-03
AUTONOMOUS BUILD SYSTEMS

Can a specification be built by a fleet of agents under verification gates?

A spec is decomposed into independently verifiable tasks; a runner dispatches agents that must pass a gate — format, lint, type-check, tests — before 'done' counts. Fleets run in isolated git worktrees so changes can't collide. Independent verifiability is the whole game.

STATUS: IN DAILY PRODUCTION USE
REF: RSCH-04
CLINICAL TRIAGE ARCHITECTURE

How do you let a model converse while a separate, grounded model owns the decision?

A fast voice front-end talks to a patient and gathers detail; a separate supervisor service makes the triage decision against an established clinical protocol. The voice is never trusted to make the call — it gathers; the supervisor adjudicates and owns the record.

STATUS: WORKING ARCHITECTURE
REF: RSCH-05
MULTI-MODEL ORCHESTRATION

When does an ensemble of frontier models beat the best single model?

Routing a problem across multiple frontier models and reconciling their answers sometimes wins and sometimes just costs more. We study the production patterns that make an ensemble worth its overhead — and the cases where one strong default is the right call.

STATUS: PRODUCTION PATTERNS + ONGOING STUDY
REF: RSCH-06
RETRIEVAL OVER REGULATORY CORPORA

How do you do faithful RAG over large, unstructured regulatory documents?

Regulatory corpora are long, dense, and unforgiving — a wrong or unsourced answer is worse than none. We index multiple corpora and pursue retrieval that returns answers a reader can trace back to the passage that proves them.

STATUS: MULTIPLE CORPORA INDEXED
REF: RSCH-07
LANGUAGE-EMERGENCE SIMULATION

How does shared language emerge or fragment when populations meet on a spatial lattice?

A question pursued with an academic collaborator: simulate populations on a spatial lattice and watch whether a shared language emerges, drifts, or fragments. A first version has shipped.

STATUS: ACADEMIC COLLABORATION // V1 SHIPPED
REF: RSCH-08
REAL-TIME COLLABORATIVE SIMULATION

What is the right substrate for multiplayer, GPU-rendered simulation?

Many participants, shared state, GPU-rendered, in real time — the substrate question underneath collaborative simulation. We have an architecture prototype and a list of the constraints that actually bind.

STATUS: ARCHITECTURE PROTOTYPE

02 // Selected figures

FIG. SUPERVISOR ARCHITECTURE
REF: RSCH-04Two-tier supervisor architecture: voice front-end and grounded supervisor
FIG. MODEL ENSEMBLE
REF: RSCH-05Multi-model ensemble converging on a single arbiter node
REF: RSCH-METHOD

How we hold a thread

A thread is open until we can state, precisely, what we now know that we did not know before. Some close into products. Some close into a method we reuse on every engagement. A few stay open because the honest answer is still we are not sure — and that is a legitimate place for a lab to stand.