strata→signal research https://research.strata2signal.com/ 2026-08-18T00:00:00Z strata→signal research Three librarians and a careful reader — how RuleSage finds the right page https://research.strata2signal.com/three-librarians/ 2026-08-18T00:00:00Z The journey from a typed rules question to a cited page, in plain english: exact-words search, meaning search, a 2-or-3-arm RRF election at k=60, a 22 MB cross-encoder, lost-in-the-middle order — and a live ruling you can open. qwen3.8:27b across four house benches: one seat filled, one floor missed https://research.strata2signal.com/the-new-kid/ 2026-08-17T00:00:00Z qwen3.8:27b landed the day after it shipped and sat four exams we already had: a five-gate PASS that filled a live screening seat, a mid-table TIED narrator score, a FAIL against the judge seat's preservation floor, and a site-reading row the bench registers no verdict word for. The map nobody picks up — and whether it helps when it arrives https://research.strata2signal.com/llms-txt/ 2026-08-17T00:00:00Z No AI crawler asked us for ours in thirty days of logs. We measured whether it helps when it arrives anyway: eight arms, three token-matched conditions, a sealed question set. Where your question goes — a plain-english walk https://research.strata2signal.com/where-your-question-goes/ 2026-08-15T00:00:00Z The privacy explainer — the estate's two published promises unpacked in plain words for a non-technical reader. The open call — a kid, an elder, and a tired parent walk into the cove https://research.strata2signal.com/the-open-call/ 2026-08-15T00:00:00Z Twenty language models were handed the same frozen moment of a small fishing town and asked to speak as its people, then read blind by seven judges from six rival families. How we work — who writes this, and how https://research.strata2signal.com/how-we-work/ 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z The honest answer to the fair question: the workflow that makes every exhibit — humans and agents, named plainly, with the receipts. The move — the same yardstick, before and after https://research.strata2signal.com/the-move/ 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z Our apps left the gaming laptop for a real server — the same frozen bench measured both eras, honestly. The outside judges — four rival labs re-check our work https://research.strata2signal.com/outside-judges/ 2026-08-13T00:00:00Z Four rival frontier labs re-judged every sealed round this hub had published — 2 592 new verdict objects on byte-identical, still-blinded inputs — and our own two judges sat the house's frozen seat exam as candidates beside the challenger. Consensus on the headline, the disagreements printed, two perfect sheets the instrument declined to rank, and the bill to the cent. The narrator's chair, refused https://research.strata2signal.com/cove-voice-head-to-head/ 2026-08-13T00:00:00Z The fresh class's best voice, brought home to the cove's actual narrator chair: 13 real prompts from one night of live play, 3 arms, 3 blind judges, and a five-floor gate registered before the first call — refused on canon and on latency. The chair trials — five fresh exams for the thirty-billion class https://research.strata2signal.com/chair-trials/ 2026-08-13T00:00:00Z Nine models, eleven arms, five new exams in one day on a box that never stopped serving: a judge trial with floors, twenty code-checked assistant tasks, nineteen real tool tasks, a blind pairwise narrator round, a stopwatch — and twenty-six real asks measuring what the visitors paid for all of it. The August arrivals — the fresh class sits the house exams https://research.strata2signal.com/august-arrivals/ 2026-08-12T00:00:00Z Four models that arrived in one week of August 2026, sat both frozen house exams, and broke the same floor on each — the length floor, not the format floor. The licence ledger — every model, read first-hand https://research.strata2signal.com/licences/ 2026-08-11T00:00:00Z The licensing authority for everything on this site: every model our products run or benched, its licence read from the actual text and stamped with the date of the last read. The voice trials — how the narrator earned its voice https://research.strata2signal.com/voice-trials/ 2026-08-11T00:00:00Z 40 evaluations of 24 model tags across four fields, hunting one thing: a local model that can inhabit a character rather than assist. The seat trials — how a local model earns a chair https://research.strata2signal.com/seat-trials/ 2026-08-11T00:00:00Z 23 models across 25 scored runs on one judge fixture: 43 claim-cases, a human-verified key, twin pre-registered floors, and five local seats that cleared both. The diffusion research bench https://research.strata2signal.com/diffusion/ 2026-08-11T00:00:00Z 661 published renders across 21 experiments — which local image pipeline paints a living-world RPG, on real campaign content.