Lab app · Demand
Everything asked of the lab.
Seven doors, one list, at two resolutions: everything asked, and the nineteen the week is actually composed from. Plus the three logs the firm writes into — what it asked, what it wrote on what it read, and who is still holding an answer that has moved.
Seven doors in one list. Pull what you are going to do; defer or let go of the rest with a reason. Nothing here asks permission for work the charter says needs none — the strip at the top is the only thing watching, and it moves as you decide.
Shares of committed work, not of a week — reading, triage and field maintenance leave no record, so the operating model's third allocation is not claimed here. Drift, not a score: pulling work to make a bar green would make the number worthless.
Committed
16 pieces · 7 people · 114d grows as you pull work in- MMMichael MenacheT3Let the agent break it8dT3Spec first, then agents13dT3One context, whole pod1d—AI-SDLC as a repeatable practice8d
- DYDylan DesmarchelierT3Small model, back of the store5dT4Inference under seal13d—Standing up the model gateway16d
- MLMichelle LamT3The canary suite9d—Evidence behind the multi-platform claim8d
- TBTravis BoastT3Who signed for that13d—Model and tool approval with Procurement4d
- AWAdam WitanowskiTRThe skill wiki2d—Google Cloud model access5d
- DDDavid DiazT3When agents flood the queue1dT3Does it still agree with itself?1d
- ATAndrew TranT4What the assistant is worth7d
61 asks, from every door into the lab — a detector, a question the library missed, engagements asking, a note somebody left, a correction owed, a team wanting the lab beside them, a proposal. Columns are the slice, not a workflow. Weight is computed from independent sources, value, the plan and age; nobody maintains a hand-ranked list of 61 things.
No vertical
15 · 73d · 33%- Consult2 asking15dQ.Eval — a standard quality bar for LLM solutions
A named C.1 initiative with no owner yet. The lab has the harness and the calibration work; somebody has to decide whether we are the ones to carry it.
ML52d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Proposal14dLearning without retraining
Non-weight-bound learning through retrieval-updated skills, and where it stops working
AW82d left - Note2dThe resurrection trigger says 'if hardware pricing moves materially'. Two vendors cut list…
On graveyard · question
MA40d left - Note2dIs this consultation paper binding on us as a service provider, or only on the licensed en…
On signal · question
AV39d left - Proposal14dNearest door into pharma
A survey run for the closest adjacency between the firm's existing work and pharma R&D
ML76d left - Note2dDoes the delegation record survive a credential rotation? Every bank I have shown this to …
On cluster · question
AH37d left - Proposal14dThe agent that watches the shop
A sensing agent over store telemetry, scored against the alerts a human analyst raised
DY71d left - Note2dThree of the five claims on this field cite the same benchmark run. That is one experiment…
On cluster · objection
AT35d left
7 more, lower weight
banking
24 · 70d · 32%- Signal11 asking3dLegacy comprehension agents
The largest pipeline value attached to any ask in the record, and the capability side is real — long-context retrieval over whole repositories moved twice this quarter. It ranks fourth in its own lane because the join is fuzzy and uncommitted, which caps convergence at the weaker side. That is the ranking behaving correctly on bad data, not a mis-weighting.
AHMA42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal5 asking3dCompliance-as-eval
Source diversity is the highest in the pool — standards bodies, two regulators' consultation papers, three vendor eval releases and an internal assurance review, which is four epistemic communities converging rather than one echoing. Demand is the second-strongest ask in the record and the firm already owns the obligation side.
TBAH42d left - Signal5 asking3dAU data-residency inference
Dropped by Amber from a banking RFP and by Aadhi from a government panel refresh in the same fortnight, each asking whether the lab had a position; it does not, beyond pos-sovereign-inference's footnote. Band-3 demand is running ahead of band-1 delivery — the pattern with the shortest distance between a client question and a defensible answer.
AHAV42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal5 asking3dEstimating agentic builds
The research run came back dry: one paper, no repos, three vendor claims with no method behind them. A dry run is a finding rather than a failure — the firm is being asked, four engagements deep, about something the literature has not written up, and that is the strongest case in the pool for original work.
MA42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal9 asking3dStandardising the model estate
The most-asked question in the record and the one with the shortest half-life — any answer is wrong within a quarter, which is exactly why it belongs to a standing answer with a re-check date rather than a report. Closed objective B.1 died on this and the notes are still in the pile.
MLDBDYDD42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal4 asking3dThe halved-timeline claim, measured
A competitor claim we are asked to rebut or match, four engagements running. Our own evidence says the answer is neither, which is a harder sell and a better position. Ranks sixth of six in its lane and two people put it on the list by hand anyway.
MMMA42d left - Signal4 asking3dDelegated credentials for acting agents
Named as a precondition in two banking RFPs. Answering it badly does not lose the deal — it removes agentic scope from the deal, which costs more. Points at an open field, so the work is a position, not a new field.
AHTB42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal6 asking3dAgent-native billing and metering
Naming event: 'agent metering' displaced 'usage-based pricing' in band-1 changelogs from three vendors inside six weeks, and ignited in band 3 when two telco RFPs used the phrase. Independently, three losses were recorded against commercial model rather than price. Both drivers arrived at the same object without seeing each other.
MAOV42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
16 more, lower weight
cross-sector
12 · 47d · 21%- Signal5 asking3dEstimating agentic builds
The research run came back dry: one paper, no repos, three vendor claims with no method behind them. A dry run is a finding rather than a failure — the firm is being asked, four engagements deep, about something the literature has not written up, and that is the strongest case in the pool for original work.
MA42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal9 asking3dStandardising the model estate
The most-asked question in the record and the one with the shortest half-life — any answer is wrong within a quarter, which is exactly why it belongs to a standing answer with a re-check date rather than a report. Closed objective B.1 died on this and the notes are still in the pile.
MLDBDYDD42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal6 asking3dAgent-native billing and metering
Naming event: 'agent metering' displaced 'usage-based pricing' in band-1 changelogs from three vendors inside six weeks, and ignited in band 3 when two telco RFPs used the phrase. Independently, three losses were recorded against commercial model rather than price. Both drivers arrived at the same object without seeing each other.
MAOV42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal9 asking3dRole recomposition under agentic delivery
Asked by executives, never by procurement, so it never reaches a scope document and is invisible to the pipeline. The firm has an objective for it and the lab has nothing. Nothing in the corpus matched the ask in the client's words — the candidate exists at all because a research run went and found the vocabulary.
HB42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal2 asking3dCanary suites that fire on provider releases
Three silent behaviour changes detected in band 1 this quarter that no vendor changelog mentioned. This is what gives Argus teeth, and it is cheap: the suite already exists for internal evals.
MLTB42d left - Signal3dShared-context AI surfaces for delivery pods
Seven independent placements in eight weeks, three from firm-side people who had not seen each other's drops; x-multiplayer-surface is already proposed against it. Velocity is the firm's own usage rather than the literature, which is the strongest election signal the pool has — and no client has asked for it once.
OVDBAH42d left - Signal3dInterpretability tooling as a debugging practice
Tooling maturity crossed a line this quarter — three open releases aimed at application engineers rather than researchers. If it holds it changes what an assurance artefact can contain; if it does not, it costs a Type R afternoon.
TBDD42d left - Client demand12dCan you run a generative AI proof of concept for us?
Effectively gone, from fourteen a year ago. Clients have stopped buying exploration and started buying outcomes, which is the single biggest change in the record this year.
Found by a detector84d left
4 more, lower weight
retail
14 · 46d · 21%- Signal12 asking3dAgentic data remediation
Six engagements, the clearest unmet demand in the record, and squarely inside the firm's existing competence. Industry signal is thin and scattered — the research run found the language before the detectors did, which is the shape of every demand-led item that turns out to matter.
DBOV42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal5 asking3dEstimating agentic builds
The research run came back dry: one paper, no repos, three vendor claims with no method behind them. A dry run is a finding rather than a failure — the firm is being asked, four engagements deep, about something the literature has not written up, and that is the strongest case in the pool for original work.
MA42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal9 asking3dStandardising the model estate
The most-asked question in the record and the one with the shortest half-life — any answer is wrong within a quarter, which is exactly why it belongs to a standing answer with a re-check date rather than a report. Closed objective B.1 died on this and the notes are still in the pile.
MLDBDYDD42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal4 asking3dThe halved-timeline claim, measured
A competitor claim we are asked to rebut or match, four engagements running. Our own evidence says the answer is neither, which is a harder sell and a better position. Ranks sixth of six in its lane and two people put it on the list by hand anyway.
MMMA42d left - Signal9 asking3dRole recomposition under agentic delivery
Asked by executives, never by procurement, so it never reaches a scope document and is invisible to the pipeline. The firm has an objective for it and the lab has nothing. Nothing in the corpus matched the ask in the client's words — the candidate exists at all because a research run went and found the vocabulary.
HB42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal3dShared-context AI surfaces for delivery pods
Seven independent placements in eight weeks, three from firm-side people who had not seen each other's drops; x-multiplayer-surface is already proposed against it. Velocity is the firm's own usage rather than the literature, which is the strongest election signal the pool has — and no client has asked for it once.
OVDBAH42d left - Question2 asking5dClient wants a fixed price on an agent build. What do we tell them?
Third distinct asker in a fortnight. The pipeline value attached to this is the largest of any unanswered question in the log.
DBAH55d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Question2 asking5dWill agents clean the warehouse or just make more mess in it?
Same gap. Two verticals, two vocabularies, no join.
DBSL50d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
6 more, lower weight
telco
15 · 41d · 19%- Signal11 asking3dLegacy comprehension agents
The largest pipeline value attached to any ask in the record, and the capability side is real — long-context retrieval over whole repositories moved twice this quarter. It ranks fourth in its own lane because the join is fuzzy and uncommitted, which caps convergence at the weaker side. That is the ranking behaving correctly on bad data, not a mis-weighting.
AHMA42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal12 asking3dAgentic data remediation
Six engagements, the clearest unmet demand in the record, and squarely inside the firm's existing competence. Industry signal is thin and scattered — the research run found the language before the detectors did, which is the shape of every demand-led item that turns out to matter.
DBOV42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal5 asking3dEstimating agentic builds
The research run came back dry: one paper, no repos, three vendor claims with no method behind them. A dry run is a finding rather than a failure — the firm is being asked, four engagements deep, about something the literature has not written up, and that is the strongest case in the pool for original work.
MA42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal9 asking3dStandardising the model estate
The most-asked question in the record and the one with the shortest half-life — any answer is wrong within a quarter, which is exactly why it belongs to a standing answer with a re-check date rather than a report. Closed objective B.1 died on this and the notes are still in the pile.
MLDBDYDD42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal4 asking3dThe halved-timeline claim, measured
A competitor claim we are asked to rebut or match, four engagements running. Our own evidence says the answer is neither, which is a harder sell and a better position. Ranks sixth of six in its lane and two people put it on the list by hand anyway.
MMMA42d left - Signal6 asking3dAgent-native billing and metering
Naming event: 'agent metering' displaced 'usage-based pricing' in band-1 changelogs from three vendors inside six weeks, and ignited in band 3 when two telco RFPs used the phrase. Independently, three losses were recorded against commercial model rather than price. Both drivers arrived at the same object without seeing each other.
MAOV42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Question2 asking5dWhich model should we standardise on across the estate?
Sovereignty constraint on top of the model question — the answer changes if the model must be hosted on-shore, and nothing joins the two.
AVMA54d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Correction2 asking1dTell p-rohan — Board pack, AI spend section — quoted as a band, not a point
Used it as briefing, and it is still in front of somebody.
HBMA19d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
7 more, lower weight
government
10 · 34d · 15%- Signal11 asking3dLegacy comprehension agents
The largest pipeline value attached to any ask in the record, and the capability side is real — long-context retrieval over whole repositories moved twice this quarter. It ranks fourth in its own lane because the join is fuzzy and uncommitted, which caps convergence at the weaker side. That is the ranking behaving correctly on bad data, not a mis-weighting.
AHMA42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal5 asking3dCompliance-as-eval
Source diversity is the highest in the pool — standards bodies, two regulators' consultation papers, three vendor eval releases and an internal assurance review, which is four epistemic communities converging rather than one echoing. Demand is the second-strongest ask in the record and the firm already owns the obligation side.
TBAH42d left - Signal5 asking3dAU data-residency inference
Dropped by Amber from a banking RFP and by Aadhi from a government panel refresh in the same fortnight, each asking whether the lab had a position; it does not, beyond pos-sovereign-inference's footnote. Band-3 demand is running ahead of band-1 delivery — the pattern with the shortest distance between a client question and a defensible answer.
AHAV42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal9 asking3dStandardising the model estate
The most-asked question in the record and the one with the shortest half-life — any answer is wrong within a quarter, which is exactly why it belongs to a standing answer with a re-check date rather than a report. Closed objective B.1 died on this and the notes are still in the pile.
MLDBDYDD42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal6 asking3dAgent-native billing and metering
Naming event: 'agent metering' displaced 'usage-based pricing' in band-1 changelogs from three vendors inside six weeks, and ignited in band 3 when two telco RFPs used the phrase. Independently, three losses were recorded against commercial model rather than price. Both drivers arrived at the same object without seeing each other.
MAOV42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal9 asking3dRole recomposition under agentic delivery
Asked by executives, never by procurement, so it never reaches a scope document and is invisible to the pipeline. The firm has an objective for it and the lab has nothing. Nothing in the corpus matched the ask in the client's words — the candidate exists at all because a research run went and found the vocabulary.
HB42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Question2 asking5dWhich model should we standardise on across the estate?
Sovereignty constraint on top of the model question — the answer changes if the model must be hosted on-shore, and nothing joins the two.
AVMA54d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Question2 asking5dWhat do we say when a client asks for AU data residency on inference?
Footnote-level. Two sector owners hit this in a fortnight and the field has not caught up.
MAAV49d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
2 more, lower weight
insurance
8 · 26d · 12%- Signal12 asking3dAgentic data remediation
Six engagements, the clearest unmet demand in the record, and squarely inside the firm's existing competence. Industry signal is thin and scattered — the research run found the language before the detectors did, which is the shape of every demand-led item that turns out to matter.
DBOV42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal5 asking3dCompliance-as-eval
Source diversity is the highest in the pool — standards bodies, two regulators' consultation papers, three vendor eval releases and an internal assurance review, which is four epistemic communities converging rather than one echoing. Demand is the second-strongest ask in the record and the firm already owns the obligation side.
TBAH42d left - Signal4 asking3dDelegated credentials for acting agents
Named as a precondition in two banking RFPs. Answering it badly does not lose the deal — it removes agentic scope from the deal, which costs more. Points at an open field, so the work is a position, not a new field.
AHTB42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal2 asking3dCanary suites that fire on provider releases
Three silent behaviour changes detected in band 1 this quarter that no vendor changelog mentioned. This is what gives Argus teeth, and it is cheap: the suite already exists for internal evals.
MLTB42d left - Question3 asking5dWhich framework do the insurers actually audit against?
Third asker, third vertical, in the same fortnight. Nothing in the corpus.
SLTBAH54d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Correction3 asking1dTell p-hana — Health insurer claims-assistant proposal, architecture section
Used it as proposal, and it is still in front of somebody.
SLOV16d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal3dReal-world evidence and outcomes analytics
The nearest adjacency rather than the most exciting one — this is recognisably the firm's existing competence in a vertical it does not serve, where the pharma R&D cluster above is neither. Sponsored by Sylvia against TH-1, with a decision point in Q1 FY28.
SL42d left - Question5dHas anyone tried Gemini for claims triage?
Logged as an intake event. No run on this model against this task; the nearest evidence is a different model on a different corpus and saying so is more useful than guessing.
SL54d left
health
5 · 17d · 8%- Signal5 asking3dAU data-residency inference
Dropped by Amber from a banking RFP and by Aadhi from a government panel refresh in the same fortnight, each asking whether the lab had a position; it does not, beyond pos-sovereign-inference's footnote. Band-3 demand is running ahead of band-1 delivery — the pattern with the shortest distance between a client question and a defensible answer.
AHAV42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Question2 asking5dWill agents clean the warehouse or just make more mess in it?
Same gap. Two verticals, two vocabularies, no join.
DBSL50d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal3dDeployment-time weight updates
Orphan density: nineteen signals in the quarterly survey fitting no existing field and developing internal coherence around post-deployment adaptation. Cost of being wrong is the highest in the pool — it invalidates the assurance position, not just a recommendation — and that axis is deliberately kept apart from impact.
ML42d left - Signal3dDesign-of-experiment agents in wet-lab pipelines
Strongest capability signal outside the served verticals, and it has no sponsor — which means it belongs to nobody and dies quietly the moment the room gets busy. The standing caution applies with force: the trend being real is necessary and nowhere near sufficient, and the entry cost here is credibility the firm does not hold.
DD42d left - Signal3dReal-world evidence and outcomes analytics
The nearest adjacency rather than the most exciting one — this is recognisably the firm's existing competence in a vertical it does not serve, where the pharma R&D cluster above is neither. Sponsored by Sylvia against TH-1, with a decision point in Q1 FY28.
SL42d left
energy
4 · 12d · 5%- Signal11 asking3dLegacy comprehension agents
The largest pipeline value attached to any ask in the record, and the capability side is real — long-context retrieval over whole repositories moved twice this quarter. It ranks fourth in its own lane because the join is fuzzy and uncommitted, which caps convergence at the weaker side. That is the ranking behaving correctly on bad data, not a mis-weighting.
AHMA42d leftFolded, not merged. Each keeps its own asker, so taking this tells all of them.
- Signal3dAgents against formal specifications
Split signal: the verification literature and the agent literature have started citing each other after two years of not doing so. Cross-community citation is the earliest structural tell the survey has, and it precedes the naming event rather than following it.
Found by a detector42d left - Signal3dLearned world models for operational planning
Cross-pollination candidate rather than a field on its own: enabling join to network operations, where the constraint has always been simulator fidelity rather than the optimiser. Serves no stated objective, which is optionality or drift and the plan cannot yet tell which.
DY42d left - Signal3dDistributed flexibility forecasting
Regulatory signal ahead of technical signal — three market-body consultations inside a quarter, which is the pattern the detectors weight highest in verticals with a regulator. No sponsor, no engagement history, no way for Engel to see it at all.
Found by a detector42d left
defence
1 · 3d · 1%- Signal3dAgents against formal specifications
Split signal: the verification literature and the agent literature have started citing each other after two years of not doing so. Cross-community citation is the earliest structural tell the survey has, and it precedes the naming event rather than following it.
Found by a detector42d left
pharma
1 · 3d · 1%- Signal3dDesign-of-experiment agents in wet-lab pipelines
Strongest capability signal outside the served verticals, and it has no sponsor — which means it belongs to nobody and dies quietly the moment the room gets busy. The standing caution applies with force: the trend being real is necessary and nowhere near sufficient, and the entry cost here is credibility the firm does not hold.
DD42d left