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The thesisChasing Jarvis: The Bottleneck Was Never the CodeWe are learning to build and ship real digital products using AI coding agents. The gap between idea and shipped product is no longer technical, it is contextual.The methodEvery Product Needs a HomeBuilding a modern website in the age of AI agents: a manual, told through the new website of The CuratorThe researchContext as Architecture: Full-Corpus Grounding, Orchestrated Agentic Development, and Compliance-by-Design in a Production AI Assistant PlatformThis paper reports a longitudinal design-science case study of a single production artefact — Lumina, a multi-tenant AI assistant platform — across two complete generations built fourteen months apart in capability terms and seven months apart in calendar terms.

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Research30 Sep 2026 · Paper

Knowledge Accumulates, State Supersedes: Structuring and Carrying Context for Multi-Session, Multi-Harness AI Agent Work — A Design Study of The Curator, an Open-Source Context Engine

Large language model (LLM) agents now carry out work that outlasts a single session: building software, running literature reviews, writing books, producing campaigns. Every session, however, begins with an empty context window, and when the work moves to a different agent harness, a different model or a different computer, whatever the previous session knew is lost.

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Research2 Mar 2026 · Paper

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Can AI Democratise the World's Most Exclusive Algorithm? A Review of Emerging Legal AI Capabilities and Their Implications for Access to Justice

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Research1 Jun 2025 · Paper

The Energy and Water Footprint of Generative AI: A Vanguard Leadership Perspective

Examines generative AI's energy and water demand, efficiency differences between LLMs (Mixtral 8x22B at ~0.15 Wh per query versus Claude 3.5 at ~0.4 Wh), and regional implications in Europe, the US and Asia.

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Research1 May 2025 · Report

Exploring Early Indicators of AGI in Coding Agents: A Case Study on MCP-Powered Systems

This study, conducted under the COTRUGLI Business School 2 Co-lab initiative in Q1 and Q2 2025, investigates whether Model Context Protocols (MCPs) can enhance large language models (LLMs) to exhibit early indicators of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in coding agents.

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Research16 Apr 2025 · Paper

AI as a Force Multiplier: Leaders for Industry 5.0

The rapid ascent of artificial intelligence (i.e. AI) technologies—spanning large language models (i.e. LLMs), no-code platforms, AI agents, automation tools, and Web3 integration—presents both opportunities and challenges for business leaders.

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Research2 Dec 2020 · Paper

Initial Steps Toward Blockchain Enterprise Adoption

A guideline for enterprise blockchain adoption using two use cases: Tolar HashNet (a scalable network) and 4thTech (an application suite for secure, immutable cross-border data and document exchange and eDelivery).

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