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Longer papers, playbooks, and frameworks for leaders who need practical depth on agentic systems, governance, and operational change.

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Research / January 29, 2026 / 43 min

The Rosetta Stone for Agentic Employees

A white paper exploring how the architecture of agentic employees – crews, flows, intent, memory, and style – reflects the core functions of human cognition. Drawing on neuroscience and AI research, it offers a shared vocabulary for building adaptive, persistent, and trustworthy agentic systems.

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Research / January 29, 2026 / 5 min

The Rosetta Stone for Agentic Employees

A practical, code-first framework for designing long-lived agentic employees, mapping modern agentic architectures to established concepts from neuroscience to create shared understanding across engineering, leadership, and governance.

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Research / January 27, 2026 / 8 min

Shepherds of Agentic Sheep

A practical, leadership-level operating model for managing AI agents like a growing team: span of control, RACI, shepherd agents, definitions of ready and done, and trust rules that protect focus.

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Research / January 2, 2026 / 6 min

Whitepaper: Exception-Driven Cognition in Agentic Workers

As agentic artificial intelligence systems transition from episodic task execution to continuous operation, the design of memory becomes a critical and under-examined challenge. Prevailing approaches treat memory as an accumulation problem, prioritising exhaus

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Research / September 2, 2025 / 4 min

The Myth of the Unbiased AI

For years, the holy grail of AI development has been the elimination of bias. We have been told that the ideal AI is a perfectly neutral engine for processing facts. But what if that is completely wrong?

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Research / April 28, 2025 / 2 min

Multi-Agent AI: Moving Beyond Predictions to Real Enterprise Value

Most executives have seen the hype around GPT-3 and GPT-4. Now, AI is entering a new phase that will set apart tomorrow’s winners: the rise of orchestrated, multi-agent systems—built not for text prediction, but for dynamic, actionable business change.

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Research / April 25, 2025 / 3 min

UK executives now lose over 16 hours weekly chasing usable information

UK executives now lose over 16 hours weekly chasing usable information—while competitors seize the initiative. Agentic AI flips overload into clarity, surfacing actionable insights proactively on dashboards that work for every board role. The upside? Quicker d

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