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Research

Working notes from the field. Published when the finding is earned.

The firm publishes a small number of research briefs, methodology papers, and technical notes each year. Every brief is drawn from active engagement work and published only after a finding has held up under a second engagement.

Applied AIIn draft

Designing agentic pipelines for catalog operations at scale.

A working methodology for building agentic systems that operate against 10,000+ SKU catalogs with auditable writeback, human review gates, and continuous regression testing.

Publication pendingQ3 MMXXVI
E-commerce SystemsIn draft

The operator audit — a 48-hour protocol for storefronts over seven figures.

The diagnostic protocol used at the opening of every E-commerce Systems engagement. What we look for, how we measure, and the form of the first document returned.

Publication pendingQ3 MMXXVI
MethodologyOutline

Why engagement logs should be continuous, not weekly.

A short argument for instrumenting every engagement with automated continuous reporting in place of the weekly status meeting. Includes the reporting schema used internally.

Publication pendingQ4 MMXXVI

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