Cory Nation, PE, MBA, MSME / Founder & Chief Exploration Officer
Systems-engineering discipline for consequential AI work.
Cory brings 15 years of mission-critical systems engineering experience across energy and defense to research into AI and agentic systems.
Request a technical discussionThe through line
A practical path from research to operational evidence
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Understand the work
Identify the outcome, constraints and people accountable for the decision.
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Investigate the boundary
Examine context, dependencies and the exceptions that make a handoff difficult.
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Evaluate the result
Agree acceptance criteria, inspect evidence and retain unresolved questions.
Where it meets your work
Experience behind the research.
Professional Engineer
Cory Nation, PE, MBA, MSME. Engineering accountability informs the lab’s approach to requirements and evidence.
Years in mission-critical engineering
Experience across energy and defense informs work across complex systems and organizational boundaries.
Build TBD Innovation Labs
Research into coordinated agent work, with Parallax Build as a proving environment and NationOS in development.