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2026

3 articles

November 3, 202612 min read

Agentic AI Research
The Insurgency of Shadow IT: What happens when everyone can build with AI
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: shadow it · citizen developers · governance · agentic applications · cxu · pyrana
October 12, 20268 min read

Agentic AI Research
Trust, but Validate
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: governance · regulated industries · gamp · agentic applications · trust · pyrana
April 30, 202611 min read

Agentic AI Research
Knowledge That Gets Stronger From Being Wrong
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: knowledge management · context engineering · cxu · cortiq · pyrana · antifragile · epistemology

2025

10 articles

December 1, 20255 min read

Agentic AI Research
Don't Train Your Model to be an Expert
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: content-addressable · context-units · distributed-systems · knowledge-management
October 29, 20254 min read

Agentic AI Research
CxUs as Prompt "Pre-conditioners"
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: content-addressable · context-units · distributed-systems · knowledge-management
October 7, 20257 min read

Identity & Authenticity
Pandora's Box Has Been Open(AI)ed
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: deepfakes · ai · identity-verification · sora · security
September 18, 20257 min read

Identity & Authenticity
Friction Makes Smoke, and Where There's Smoke...
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: digital-identity · trust · authentication · vero · blockchain · security
August 1, 20257 min read

Agentic AI Research
LLMs Don’t Have a Memory Problem — They Have a Provenance Problem
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: ai research · context engineering · llm · enterprise ai · provenance
July 22, 20256 min read

Agentic AI Research
The Context Unit Blueprint: Architecture, Validation & Graph Retrieval in Pyrana
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: cxu · specification · architecture
July 22, 20255 min read

Agentic AI Research
Context Efficiency
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: cxu · context windows · knowledge density
July 10, 20255 min read

Agentic AI Research
Data Without Context is Useless
Eric Tarnowski
Tags: data · context · AI agents
June 18, 20256 min read

Agentic AI Research
The Role of Content Addressability in Context Units: Building Distributed Knowledge Systems
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: content-addressable · context-units · distributed-systems · knowledge-management · immutable-storage
March 3, 202514 min read

Identity & Authenticity
Enhancing Digital Identity Verification
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: identity fraud · live streaming

2024

9 articles

December 12, 202412 min read

Agentic AI Research
Are Enterprise AI Agents just RPA rebranded?
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: process modeling · robotic process automation · personal AI agents · enterprise AI agents
October 18, 20245 min read

Supply Chain
Data Asset Token vs. Product Token
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: tokenization · supply chain
September 21, 20245 min read

Identity & Authenticity
Nexus: A counter argument to blockchain's "Achilles heel"
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: digital truth
August 1, 202427 min read

Identity & Authenticity
Blinky Light Thing: An Approach for Verifiable Real-Time Video
Jamey Canterbury · Ankur Garg · Patrick Macom
Tags: live streaming
July 22, 20246 min read

Supply Chain
Contract Wallets as Containers
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: tokenization · supply chain
July 4, 202412 min read

Identity & Authenticity
The Blinky Light Thing
Jamey Canterbury · Ankur Garg · Patrick Macom
Tags: live streaming
May 10, 202414 min read

Supply Chain
Interobjectivity... ?
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: autonomous worlds · supply chain
April 15, 20246 min read

Supply Chain
Does Knowing Make You Accountable?
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: tokenization · supply chain
March 30, 202413 min read

Supply Chain
Why hasn’t blockchain solved our supply chain issues yet?
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: tokenization · supply chain

2023

5 articles

November 1, 20235 min read

Supply Chain
Digital Twin ≠ Product Token
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: tokenization · supply chain
October 18, 20234 min read

Supply Chain
Product Token Metadata Profiling
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: tokenization · supply chain · machine learning
October 10, 20235 min read

Identity & Authenticity
Attested Sensors & Source Data Synthesis Under Zero Knowledge
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: attested sensors · hardware
August 20, 20239 min read

Supply Chain
Product-Oriented Data Structure
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: tokenization · supply chain
June 15, 20233 min read

Supply Chain
Wallets vs. Token Metadata
Jamey Canterbury
Tags: tokenization · supply chain

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