How agentic work can help companies grow revenue
Separating what the published research actually measured from what the industry is forecasting — and setting out where an organization should start.
Read the research briefing
We test what is next before we recommend it.
Our applied research practice evaluates new models, tools and methods against real operational needs. Work that proves useful becomes a prototype. Work that does not is written up and set aside — which is just as valuable to know, and considerably cheaper to find out here than in production.
Our method
Four steps, and a willingness to stop.
Research only earns its place if it can produce a negative result and act on it.
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Scan
Track what is actually shipping and usable, not what has been announced or demonstrated under ideal conditions.
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Prototype
Build the smallest version that can be honestly judged, using representative data rather than a curated sample.
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Evaluate
Test against real tasks, real running cost and the failure modes that matter, with the criteria set before the results arrive.
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Publish or apply
Share the finding as a briefing, take it into a client engagement, or record why it was not worth pursuing.
Areas of focus
What we are currently working on.
These are the questions our delivery work keeps raising, so they are the ones we investigate.
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Agentic workflows
Where an agent genuinely changes a process, where it simply adds cost and latency, and what has to be in place before either happens.
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Responsible AI in practice
Oversight, privacy and escalation designs that survive contact with real operations instead of living in a policy document.
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Machine perception
Document, speech and vision models applied to messy real-world inputs, and how their errors behave at the edges.
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Evaluation methods
How to tell whether an AI system is actually working, and how to connect an operating metric to a business result you can defend.
What we publish
Briefings, with the sources attached.
We publish when a piece of work produces something worth reading. There is no content calendar to fill.
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Have a question worth investigating?
If you are weighing a technology and cannot find a straight answer about whether it works, that is exactly the kind of question we run a short piece of research on.
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