An independent AI lab · est. MMXXI

Autonomy is easy. Trust is engineered.

Working AI for lending and hospitality firms. Autonomous where it's safe, gated in code everywhere else.

Rembrandt, The Syndics of the Drapers' Guild, 1662. Six officials around a table, looking up from a ledger.
Rembrandt van Rijn · The Syndics · 1662 · Rijksmuseum
Selected work

In production, not in demos.

Old-craft discipline, pointed at new tools.

I.Night operations · CRE lending

The Night Auditor

An operations desk that works while the firm sleeps. It reads everything, reconciles everything, and has the morning briefing waiting by dawn. It proposes; people approve.

  • runs nightly · unattended
  • boundaries compiled in, not prompted
  • writes to systems of record: zero
Rembrandt, The Night Watch, 1642. A civic guard company assembling at night.
Rembrandt · The Night Watch · 1642
II.Instruments · document intelligence

The Reading Room

Versioned, eval-tested instruments that read industry paperwork, and say so when a document falls outside what they've seen.

  • versioned · eval-tested
  • legal work rehearsed adversarially
  • training data never ships
Vermeer, The Astronomer, 1668. A scholar reading instruments by a window.
Johannes Vermeer · The Astronomer · 1668
III.Public policy · SBA lending

The Living Law Library

Every SBA SOP edition since 2008 under version control, watched daily, cited to the paragraph, and checked against the official text so it can't quietly drift.

  • every edition since 2008
  • new rules wait for a human
  • a script proves it hasn't drifted
Antonello da Messina, Saint Jerome in His Study, c.1475. A scholar amid an ordered library.
Antonello da Messina · Saint Jerome in His Study · c. 1475
IV.Managed AI · hospitality consulting

The Managed Workroom

A firm's institutional memory, distilled and versioned, with an agent that drafts in the principal's own voice. It reads, recommends and drafts, and never sends to anyone outside.

  • privilege-aware, in code
  • an invisible provenance mark on every deliverable
  • a room you simply open
Vermeer, The Geographer, 1669. A scholar at work over charts and dividers.
Johannes Vermeer · The Geographer · 1669
Shipped software · Mac OS

Your data is a file you own.

Hospitality benchmarking

STR Compass

Benchmarking reports. Offline, deterministic, under 2 seconds.

Offline accounting

AnchorBooks

Double-entry books in one SQLite file, hash-chained against tampering, no subscription.

Documents

PDF Squish

Strictly lossless compression. No document ever leaves your machine. Source on GitHub ↗

 

…and the occasional experiment.

Built fast, kept only if it earns its place.

House rules · how the lab works

The walls are part of the work.

  1. 01Propose, don't send.Anything bound for the outside world is a draft until a person approves it. Every update to a system of record is an approval away. The human stays the actor.
  2. 02Boundaries live in code, not prompts.Read-only tokens, allowlists, withheld credentials. An agent can't be talked out of a wall.
  3. 03Every number ties out.A blocking gate checks every financial workbook the lab builds before it's allowed to leave.
  4. 04Knowledge is versioned.Reference layers live in git. Agents read the reviewed main branch and versioned skill packs, not moods.
  5. 05Know the blind spots, and say so.Out-of-corpus documents get flagged. Unverified claims get labeled.
  6. 06In our products, if it touches the network, it's a bug.Local-first, deterministic, telemetry-free.
From the lab

Box of Pizza is one person, a few quiet machines, and a strong opinion about what AI should do unsupervised.

The discipline is borrowed from old crafts and pointed at new tools: build the agent, build the walls, prove both. The work runs nightly inside real firms.

If someone I work with pointed you here, that's the best introduction there is.