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Research

Lab notes.

Working notes and longer-form writing from FirstPromise Labs. Published as findings hold up, not as a content schedule.

  • AI-operated businesses
  • Decision systems
  • Evidence-based automation
  • Agent evaluation
  • Durable memory
  • Institutional learning
Decision systemsComing soon

Why automation plateaus and intelligence compounds

A structural account of what a workflow engine cannot do, and what has to be true of a system before its performance improves on its own.

Agent evaluationComing soon

Evaluating agents by outcome, not by transcript

Notes on measuring conversational agents against downstream results, and why fluency is a poor proxy for operating value.

Durable memoryComing soon

Memory that survives the stack

On designing the record layer so that swapping a CRM, a channel or a model is an integration cost rather than an institutional loss.

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