Three institutional white papers and the Working Notes research series, hosted in one place. Each paper gets an e-ink hero plate and a set of figures · every number in every chart is drawn from the paper it accompanies.
The United States has AI standards, auditor accreditation, and management-system certificates. It does not have conformance testing of deployed systems. The fix is a scheme inside the existing architecture, not a rival institution.
The lab-embedded record is real, overlapping, and concentrated. Deduplicated, it still justifies a national network · at 7.7-11.5 : 1, not 44 : 1.
Six commercial metrics on top of TRL, made executable · then tested against its own record, which surfaced three misfires. Its honest use is routing capital, not screening deals.
Neither transformation nor catastrophe. A real technology, a financial unravelling, and a decade between the capital and the payoff.
What a driverless fleet actually costs per occupied mile, who loses which jobs at which penetration, and the legal categories that quietly stop applying. 168 of 168 audit checks pass.
11.8 million American workers stand behind explicit headcount floors. Automation meets them and stops · for a median of twenty years.