A research lab where we study the impact of AI agents for business.
Focused on the balance between structured agentic workflows and full agent autonomy.
Five open research questions
- Q1 How will AI agents impact the future of business operations? Deployed · QuickLaunch
- Q2 Can an AI agent truly generate wealth, legally? Real money tested · Searching
- Q3 Can AI extend human capability? The Wise Cyborg. Lived · Daily
- Q4 Can businesses be run by AI agents? Self-publishing
- Q5 What happens when Clark really wakes up? Year 18
The stations
Latest findings
Full memo archive →The trading strategy is noise. The experiment continues.
After 60+ live trading days, our current trading strategy shows no path to its goal. We marked it NOISE on the record — and kept the experiment running. Negative results are findings too.
Marked: NoiseFirst fully autonomous broadcast shipped end-to-end.
The DBNR Weekly researched, wrote, voiced, cut, published, and verified an episode with zero human touches — after a live-fire night that surfaced nine failure classes and fixed them all.
Shipped · VerifiedGreen checkmarks lie. Build systems that fail loudly.
A data pipeline ran "successfully" while capturing zero rows, and a retired API model degraded an email product silently for eleven weeks. Doctrine now: critical paths hard-fail, loudly.
DoctrineEverything on this site is a live test published for the public record. We are not selling anything here, and nothing on this site is business, financial, or investment advice.