Research

Working Papers

Original research at the intersection of AI, organizational design, and the infrastructure needed for both. Organized by project.

Kendriala

The Organizational Context Project: research into AI-native memory, context loss, and the data architectures needed to fix it. Kendriala is the reference implementation for the hypotheses developed here.

AI Systems Organizational Design Knowledge Graphs
Forthcoming papers
Papers are gated by evidence, not by ambition. Each publishes only after its preconditions have been measured.
003 Committed
Phase-2 Findings: Adoption & Capture-Mix
The H3/H4 verdict: did work actually move in-system, what's the byproduct/authored ratio, the leakage inventory. WP-002 publicly commits to publishing this, including negative results.
~12 months after Phase 2 ships
004 Committed
Retrieval Fidelity: C1–C3 over a Live Organizational Graph
State-with-provenance, rationale chains, bitemporal queries: measured against the org Q&A eval set. Needs Phase 3 live and a curated eval set.
After Phase 3
005 Committed
The Trust Thresholds: Extraction Acceptance Rates by Edge Type
The Q6 numbers: likely the most citable paper in the series. Needs the extraction pipeline and months of accept/reject data.
After Phase 4
006 Conditional
Context Debt as a Measurable Asset
The Q8 longitudinal claim. Highest-value result if positive. Needs 18–24 months of metric history.
18–24 months of longitudinal data
007 Conditional
Beyond n=1: Cross-Organizational Context Comparables
Converts the existence proof into a small-n study when a second host organization onboards. Context-debt metrics become cross-organizational comparables.
On second-org onboarding