Research Agenda

The Research Agenda defines what the Institute is deliberately working on, and equally important, what it is not pursuing.

This boundary allows research, engineering, and product development to move forward without conceptual drift.

Time Horizon

This agenda covers a rolling horizon of 12 to 24 months.

  • Long enough to define stable system concepts
  • Short enough to remain grounded in real deployments

Primary Research Focus

Executable Language

How natural language can be constrained, structured, and translated into deterministic execution units.

Governable Agent Execution

How authority, responsibility, and escalation boundaries can be enforced before execution.

Auditability & Traceability

How AI actions can produce inspectable, replayable records across time and jurisdictions.

Applied Validation Domains

  • Cross-border manufacturing and trade operations
  • Back-office workflows with legal and financial consequences
  • Multi-role organizational execution (Finance, Legal, Operations)

These domains are used as validation environments, not as industry-specific optimizations.

Explicit Non-Goals

To preserve focus, the Institute explicitly does not pursue:

  • General artificial intelligence or cognition research
  • Model training, pretraining, or benchmark competition
  • Purely conversational or entertainment-oriented agents
  • Policy advocacy or regulatory drafting
  • Human behavioral prediction or persuasion systems

Relation to Product Development

Research outputs may inform product design, but the agenda is not driven by feature timelines.

Conversely, product constraints help validate which research directions remain grounded.

Why This Boundary Matters

Without explicit boundaries, AI research tends to drift toward abstraction or speculation.

This agenda keeps the Institute focused on structures that can be built, inspected, and deployed.