Eight bounded roles
Separated planning, evidence collection, challenge, synthesis, and presentation responsibilities.
AI research system
TradeLab
A research workbench that connects hypotheses, source evidence, critique and simulated decisions.
- My contribution
- System design · agent orchestration · evidence boundaries
- Timeframe
- Iterative research platform
- Status
- Ongoing
THE WORK IN ONE LINE
Research, critique and source evidence stay connected in a reviewable workflow. Shadow-only research prototype.
Prerecorded synthetic session
Inspect the research system
Fictional subject. No account or brokerage connection.
Research graph
Eight bounded roles
Lead
analyst
analyst
Planner
Breaks the question into bounded research assignments.
Produces: Research planEvidence ledger
Reviewable provenance
| Source | Type | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| EV-101Synthetic quarterly filing | Document | Data Collector | Verified |
| EV-102Fictional industry outlook | Report | Domain Expert | Verified |
| EV-103Generated competitor table | Dataset | Fact Checker | Verified |
| EV-104Counter-thesis memo | Analysis | Skeptic | Under review |
| EV-105Assumption register | Ledger | Archivist | Verified |
Workflow timeline
Planning
Planner
Question decomposed and source boundary approved.
02 / The problem
More agents should not mean more unverified claims.
Multi-agent research can produce volume without trust. The design problem was to make delegation legible, preserve provenance, and prevent unsupported conclusions from silently becoming recommendations.
03 / What I built
The workflow assigns distinct responsibilities to eight roles, records evidence as structured artifacts, and makes review states visible. The replay is deterministic and represents a prerecorded synthetic session.
04 / Result & scope
What changed. What comes next.
Sanitized architecture and workflow artifacts from the TradeLab development workspace.
Evidence-first output
Designed a ledger that keeps research artifacts attributable and reviewable.
Fail-closed boundary
Kept the public and research experience read-only with no execution capability.
01Make the hypothesis explicit
A research objective becomes a tracked hypothesis with evidence and review states. Structured contracts keep the UI and workflow in agreement.
02Keep the source with the claim
An evidence ledger records where a finding came from and whether it survived critique. Stale or contradictory material remains visible rather than disappearing into a confident summary.
03Research scope
TradeLab v2 is shadow-only with no broker-write capability. Product acceptance remains open. The public replay demonstrates a fictional session, not investment performance.