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Engineering notes, not thought leadership.
What we have learned building agentic systems inside regulated institutions, written for the engineers and risk functions who have to live with the decisions.
Architecture
26 August 2026
6 min read
The human gate is the product, not the compromise
Institutions keep asking us to remove the approval step to prove the system is 'really autonomous'. That step is the reason the system is deployable, and the leverage is upstream of it anyway.
Evaluation
30 July 2026
7 min read
Write the evaluation harness before you touch the prompt
A public benchmark tells you how a model performs on someone else's distribution. Here is how we build a harness from an institution's own adjudicated history, and why it becomes the release gate.
Security
18 June 2026
5 min read
Treat every document as adversarial input
A broker submission, an inbound email and a supplier PDF are all attacker-controlled channels into your reasoning layer. Extraction has to be separated from reasoning, and extraction output has to be data.