SYSTIQOApplied AI & Systems Lab
Research Lab

Not an agency. Not a vendor. A systems lab

Ongoing technical exploration that feeds our engineering practice: how we approach problems before a client engagement ever begins.

Read this ifyou want to know how a team thinks before you let them near your systems.

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What we're studying right now

Agentic System Design

Reliable Multi-Step Agent Execution

How to structure an agent's tool access, memory, and error recovery so behavior stays predictable across long task sequences, not just in a short demo.

Retrieval & Knowledge Architecture

Retrieval Quality Beyond Similarity Search

Re-ranking, hybrid retrieval, and structured knowledge layers that hold up better than plain vector similarity once a knowledge base grows past a few thousand documents.

Evaluation & Reliability

Evaluation Frameworks for Non-Deterministic Systems

How to build test suites for systems whose output legitimately varies run to run, and what 'passing' should mean for an AI-driven workflow.

Human-AI Interaction

Where Automation Should Ask, Not Act

The interaction patterns that build trust in an automated system — what needs a confirmation, what can run silently, and how that line should shift over time.

Systems Observability

Observability for Probabilistic Systems

Traditional monitoring assumes deterministic failure. We're studying what needs to be logged and measured differently when a system's output is a distribution, not a fixed answer.

Automation Reliability

Idempotency and Recovery in Long-Running Workflows

How a multi-step business workflow should behave when a step fails halfway through — what needs to be safely retryable, and what needs a human decision instead.

How This Feeds the Work

Research before implementation, in practice

These are areas of active technical exploration — early-stage investigation and internal prototyping used to pressure-test an approach before it reaches client work, not shipped products or commercial offerings. Some of what's studied here becomes part of how we build; some doesn't hold up and gets set aside.

That distinction matters: a research area listed here is a question we're working through, not a capability we're claiming to have solved. When something moves from research into a reliable, repeatable approach, it shows up in our Capabilities and Solutions pages instead.

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