Research

How AI changes what organizations are for.

Working papers and interactive models on authority, accountability, and organizational design once AI is doing real work.

Working Papers

Two series, so far.

Working Paper 01 · The Institutional Atlas

The Mixed Workforce Company

An interactive model for splitting work, authority, and accountability between people and AI.

Interactive paper · 12 min read

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Working Paper 02 · Benchmarks

Does Code Still Need to Be Maintainable?

A small empirical benchmark: clean vs. deliberately sloppy code, graded by an AI agent doing six real maintenance tasks. Both variants passed every test; the difference showed up somewhere the tests never checked.

Interactive benchmark · 6 min read

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Working Paper 03 · Joint Cognitive Systems

The Human Exclusion Threshold

An interactive inquiry into the point where operational speed, complexity, and autonomy make meaningful human intervention impossible—and move human authority upstream.

Interactive model · Theory + lab

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More working papers in this series are in progress.