Research that earns its citations.

Praxen Institute publishes governance, evaluation, and policy work in the disciplines that the rest of our practice depends on. The standard is peer-reviewable, the audience is researchers and policy readers, and the format is whatever the argument requires — a paper, a benchmark, a dataset, an essay.

Active programs

Agentic Real Options. A framework for valuing AI technical debt as the option-cost of deferred capability-acquisition. arXiv-track working paper, affiliation: Praxen Institute. Status: revision in progress.

Inference-time compute scaling. Empirical work on reasoning-model deployment patterns in the DeepSeek-R1 lineage, including distillation and torch.compile-driven latency budgets.

Enterprise adoption pathology. Field study of where LLM evaluation work breaks down once it leaves the bench — the governance gap between behavioral evals and post-deployment audit.

Publications

The first wave of papers is in revision. Pre-prints and citation-ready PDFs will land here as they go to arXiv.

Contact

Research correspondence and collaboration inquiries: institute@cld-dev.io.