BUILD TBDVENTURE STUDIO & LABSAPPLIED INNOVATION · VENTURE STUDIO
Build TBD is an applied innovation, engineering, and technology venture studio. We help organizations solve consequential problems with emerging intelligence, and apply systems engineering to make autonomous systems dependable, verifiable, and economically viable.
Explore our operating models, composable software benchmarks, and research constellation.
CORE SERVICE OFFERINGS · ADVISE, BUILD, SCALE
We operate across the entire lifecycle of intelligent systems: defining the strategic opportunity, building the production software, and transferring the capability to scale within your team.
Clarify the opportunity, set the technical direction, and eliminate speculative AI spend before building. Fixed-scope Operational Discovery (4–6 weeks, $22k–$40k) and fractional innovation leadership.
Deploy autonomous multi-agent systems, custom software platforms, and co-built ventures. Governed by Agent Centered Design (ACD) and delivered through our autonomous runtime, Parallax Build.
Embed repeatable methods, license ACD governance standards, and train internal staff. We don't build client dependency—we equip your engineers to operate and maintain systems independently.
FLAGSHIP PRODUCTION USE CASE · HEALTHCARE
Healthcare is the ultimate test of dependable autonomy. Here is how we took the theory of Agent Centered Design and Parallax Build, and deployed it into production inside HIPAA-compliant behavioral health platform Embark EMR.
Rather than building a brittle monolith, Embark EMR breaks clinical practice management into verified, composable services. Parallax Build coordinated the multi-agent engineering delivery under strict HIPAA privacy boundaries, while Agent Centered Design enforced mandatory human-in-the-loop attestation before any clinical note or insurance claim is finalized.
Patient eligibility checked via real-time 270/271 EDI exchange.
Therapist conducts 45-min session; structured goal milestones recorded.
Role-bounded assistant synthesizes session data into bespoke SOAP draft.
Licensed therapist reviews, verifies necessity, and signs note. AI cannot finalize.
CPT 92507 mapped to EDI 837P batch file and transmitted to clearinghouse.
Follow CHANGE-014 through the plan, board, agents and review. Try the controls to move the same example forward.
Connect a new equipment interface to the service workflow. Define what success means, then break the change into a contract, an adapter and an independent verification assignment.
Each assignment retains the reason the work exists.
The board shows the same work packages, their owners and current conditions. A blocked adapter remains connected to its upstream contract and the downstream verification it holds up.
See which intervention will move delivery forward.
The architect receives requirements. The builder receives the interface contract and its assigned adapter. The verifier receives the proposal and acceptance criteria. Inspect each agent to see what it carries and returns.
Relevant working context, explicit outputs and distinct responsibilities.
The adapter needs an interface version. The configured dependency check holds that assignment and names the lead engineer as the unblock owner. Supplying the version clears this condition; it does not approve the result.
Recover a specific handoff without obscuring the rest of the work.
Verification returns evidence against the original acceptance criteria. A human reviewer can accept the proposal or request changes. That disposition stays connected to the requirements, artifact and work packages.
A completed card has an inspectable basis, not just a completion signal.
The landscape unfolds beneath the workflow: agents carry task-local context along connected paths. Geometric context research and interface-consistency checks investigate how to preserve useful information across those crossings.
Evaluate context cost, task quality and handoff rework together.
ENTERPRISE INTELLIGENCE · CONTEXT HYPERVISOR
Build TBD Glass connects your existing enterprise applications, ERPs, databases, and agent swarms without replacing your core systems. It provides topological permissions (cellular sheaves), geometric context beam-back to eliminate token bloat, and cryptographic auditability.
Glass preserves your institutional boundaries while providing a live, unified cockpit for human leaders and autonomous agents to collaborate safely.
THE FOUNDATIONAL RESEARCH PRACTICE
We publish empirical evidence, testable hypotheses, and formal standards. We investigate context geometry, cellular sheaves, and human authority boundaries under real workloads.
Governed autonomous delivery runtime with independent review and verification gates.
The engineering standard defining human authority, role contracts, and recoverable handoffs.
Investigating topological context navigation to eliminate token explosion.
Audit-chained provenance connecting inputs, chosen options, dissent, and returned evidence.
ENGAGEMENT BLUEPRINT · START WITH DISCOVERY
Bring a consequential workflow that slows your team down. Together, we define a bounded Discovery assessment, map the operating handoffs, and agree on the evidence needed before scaling.
People, systems, inputs, and failure points.
Context cost, task quality, and handoff rework.
Observed results, remaining gaps, and next decision.
Scope, access, acceptance criteria, and commercial terms are explicitly agreed before work begins.
Founder & Chief Exploration Officer · 2x LSSBB
15 years of mission-critical systems engineering across energy, defense, and manufacturing inform our practical engineering discipline: define the requirement, examine the boundary, and make the evidence mathematically inspectable.
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Applying AI to Industry. And Industry to AI.