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Plain-language articles from the lab — what we're measuring, what surprised us, and what it means for organizations of humans and agents. For the strict versions, see Research.

essay2026-07 · 6 min

Agents don't only fail in the model

A hallucination in front of a client is a model failure. A team quietly switching the automation back off is not — and it's the more expensive one. Why the human side of agent reliability is measurable, and what we found when we measured ours.

essaydraft — coming

Trust = Alignment × Reliability

Why trust in an agent is a product, not a sum: a perfectly aligned agent that fails randomly is untrustworthy, and a perfectly reliable one pointed the wrong way is worse. The one formula we run the whole lab on.

explainerdraft — coming

What "AI-native" actually measures: the L0–L5 ladder

Everyone claims to be "AI-first". Here's what a graded scale looks like when you refuse to hand out participation trophies — including why we score ourselves L0.9.

notedraft — coming

We disproved our own hypothesis, and published it

We expected the raw corpus to cost more than our distillate — it didn't. What a lab does next is the whole game.

explainerdraft — coming

What AI-native actually means

Not a tool stack — an operating model: humans and agents working, learning, and evolving together under working institutions. Measurably. The SEO-companion to our glossary.

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