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Research Notes

Research in motion. The architectures we committed to, the measurements we took, and the things that did not work — published while the questions are still open.

Notes carry a title rather than a number, because there will be many of them across the Frontier Intelligences. Each one states what it specified, what it measured, and what it left open.

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The Scarce Layer

Generation made intelligence abundant — and abundance moved the bottleneck. Orchestration Intelligence is the discipline of the layer that is now scarce, decomposed into the five layers of coordination.

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Intelligence Above the API

AI-native computing needs more than the API: IPI, the interface for intelligence that acts; OPI, the interface for intelligence that coordinates; PAP, the protocol for intelligences that work together. APIs do not disappear — the abstraction stack gets taller.

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Interactive Perspective Spheres

Maya Davis' founding interface thesis: a digital canvas where ideas are orchestrated rather than typed - layered tracks of text, voice and biometric prompts sculpting multimedia human expression - and the era it opens, from Web3 into Web4's spatial web.

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Knowing When to Speak

Every voice system can decide what to say. Almost none can decide when. These notes are the account of building the second thing — the interaction loop, its invariants, the latency campaign run against the production system, and the parts that fought back.

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Larger Than Language

A model class is defined by what it natively predicts, not by whether it contains text. Actras predict action. Octras predict orchestration policy. The interactive surface we had to build first is the specification both are drawn from.

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All Research Notes

DateCategoryTitle
August 17, 2026Research NotesThe Scarce LayerOrchestration Intelligence, and the five layers of coordination.
August 17, 2026Research NotesIntelligence Above the APIThe three planes of AI-native computing: IPI, OPI and PAP.
August 16, 2026Research NotesInteractive Perspective SpheresGateways into the Interconnected Generative Era.
August 14, 2026Research NotesKnowing When to SpeakTurn-taking, presence, and epistemics in a real-time voice loop.
August 14, 2026Research NotesLarger Than LanguageLanguage is not the primitive; the surface is the specification, and action is the prediction.

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