Strange Lab
We get your company ready for Agents.
We turn the work record into a canonical event spine, find the workflows agents should learn, package the safe ones as governed skills, and check every rollout against what happens next.
The first output is an Agent Deployment Map: what agents can train on, what they can shadow, what they can run, and where a human gate stays in the loop.
The world model sits underneath that map. Pick a point in the record, hide everything after it, test a possible action, and compare the forecast with what came later.
Start with the examples: Bismarck turns one dense PDF into a scored historical forecast, Enron replays internal company forks, and public-history examples test both current macro data and Civil War-era news from dated records.
Agents need more than context. They need company state, task boundaries, policy gates, and a score. That is the job of the work record.
Essays, Papers, and Code
- Examples: public world-model demos and what each one proves
- MarketBench: blog, paper
- The Future of Work Is Playing a Videogame
- The Future of Work Is World Models
- Bismarck: one PDF becomes a dated event stream and a playable fork
- Enron: choose a historical cutoff, write an email as an Enron actor, and compare forecasts
- Public History: choose a macro cutoff and test an analyst move
- Civil War-era public news: choose a news cutoff from 1859-1865 and test a public response
- Decision Lab: how the company record becomes an Agent Deployment Map
- Homo Agenticus Sapiens: essay Seeing Like an Agent, GitHub list
- Management flight simulator: blog, VEI repo
- Aligned Agents Still Build Misaligned Organisations