Research
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AgenticObjects is grounded in established research on attention, memory, decision-making and trust in machine advice, then tested against the behaviour of a working product. This library brings together research papers, technical white papers and product studies: the science that shaped the architecture, the engineering decisions that follow from it, and the operating record we use to challenge our own assumptions. Read in any order. Copy what is useful.
AgenticObjects · Technical white paper · September 2026
From Answers to Records
A technical guide to agentic analytics you can stand behind.
The chat answer, the generated document, the emailed digest, the dashboard. Four containers, four different-looking failures, one shared cause: nothing that would let you defend the number travels with the number. This paper tests all four against a definition of “record” that predates the category by decades, sets out the five properties an AI output has to carry instead, and then does the part a demo never does. It opens one real scheduled run and shows what the publication gates held, what they let through, and why.
In one scheduled run at 05:00, the engine sent the agent’s entire draft answer back because fourteen figures in it had no source. Across the whole record, nine of the eleven held objects were the same sentence: fastest-growing, weakest, highest.
For CIOs, CTOs, data platform owners and the technical evaluator on a buying team.
Research paper · 2026
The Science Analytics Never Shipped
Forty years of cognitive science on attention, memory and trust, and why almost none of it reached an analytics default.
An agent can now produce findings continuously, at a cost approaching zero. The person receiving them has the same working memory they had in 1984, the last year a result from cognitive science made it into an analytics product. This paper is about the research that piled up in between: what explanations actually buy you, what they cost, and why the fix that feels obvious made things measurably worse in controlled studies.
“Explanations increased the chance that humans will accept the AI’s recommendation, regardless of its correctness.”
For CIOs, CDOs, heads of analytics, and anyone who has ever built a dashboard nobody opened.
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