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Research

Some projects start with a product. Others start with a question we do not know how to answer.

RESEARCH — 01

VERDANT

A falsifiable recommendation engine for sparse, subjective preferences.

2026 · RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS · PAUSED AFTER v0.8 CONFIRMATION

v0.8 completed its preregistered confirmation experiment. Cardinal scoring improved over the historical formulation across all eleven simulated worlds, but the full policy failed six of eleven confirmation screens. The held-out AUDIT was deliberately not run.

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VERDANT / 0.8

DEVELOPMENT_08
COMPLETE
SCREENS
05 / 11
VALIDITY FAILURES
00
AUDIT
WITHHELD
STATE
PAUSED

Manifesto

You are early.

So are we.

Everything you'd call living, you got by walking toward someone who could have said no.

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