Eight bounded roles
Separated planning, evidence collection, challenge, synthesis, and presentation responsibilities.
AI research system
TradeLab
An eight-role research workflow that coordinates evidence gathering, critique, synthesis, and review without handing an agent trading authority.
- Role
- System design · agent orchestration · evidence boundaries
- Timeframe
- Iterative research platform
- Status
- Ongoing
- Publication
- Sanitized public case study
Evidence-first output
Designed a ledger that keeps research artifacts attributable and reviewable.
Fail-closed boundary
Kept the public and research experience read-only with no execution capability.
The challenge
Make complex work decision-ready.
Multi-agent research can produce volume without trust. The design problem was to make delegation legible, preserve provenance, and prevent unsupported conclusions from silently becoming recommendations.
The workflow assigns distinct responsibilities to eight roles, records evidence as structured artifacts, and makes review states visible. The replay is deterministic and represents a prerecorded synthetic session.
Prerecorded synthetic session
Inspect the research system
Fictional subject. No account or brokerage connection.
Research graph
Eight bounded roles
Lead
analyst
analyst
Planner
Breaks the question into bounded research assignments.
Produces: Research planEvidence ledger
Reviewable provenance
| Source | Type | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| EV-101Synthetic quarterly filing | Document | Data Collector | Verified |
| EV-102Fictional industry outlook | Report | Domain Expert | Verified |
| EV-103Generated competitor table | Dataset | Fact Checker | Verified |
| EV-104Counter-thesis memo | Analysis | Skeptic | Under review |
| EV-105Assumption register | Ledger | Archivist | Verified |
Workflow timeline
Planning
Planner
Question decomposed and source boundary approved.
Behind the build
System decisions that shaped the outcome
Sanitized architecture and workflow artifacts from the TradeLab development workspace.
Orchestration with accountability
Each role receives a bounded assignment and produces a typed contribution. The lead analyst integrates only evidence that has passed the defined review path.
A ledger, not a black box
Sources, owners, artifact types, and verification states are surfaced together so a reviewer can trace how the narrative was assembled.
Safety boundary
TradeLab is presented here as a research system. The demo contains no account data, live market feed, broker action, or execution path.