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Research, frameworks, and prototypes for governable systems.

BDB Labs develops and tests the concepts behind BagelTech: governance methods, ensemble reasoning, decision infrastructure, and publishable frameworks.

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Research index

Published research, frameworks, and working papers.

Durable publications spanning AI governance, ensemble reasoning, decision infrastructure, and institutional systems.

2026

Journal Article

The Doctrine of Intelligence Pluralism

A framework for reliability through structured, role-separated intelligence rather than a single authority.

Read on Zenodo

2025

Preprint

Jurisprudential Governance for AI (ELEANOR)

Runtime governance layer grounded in rights-based reasoning and controlled execution under uncertainty.

Read on Zenodo

2025

Report

Routing Uncertainty in AI Systems

Uncertainty as a routing signal that triggers escalation, abstention, retrieval, or human review.

View via ORCID

Jan 2026

Research

The Doctrine of Intelligence Pluralism

A framework for reliability through structured, role-separated intelligence rather than one synthetic authority.

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Open on Zenodo

Dec 2025

Specification

The ELEANOR Governance Specification - Runtime Architecture v2.1

A technical specification for execution, escalation, evidence capture, and governable model behavior.

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Open on Zenodo

Nov 2025

Framework

Jurisprudential Governance for AI (ELEANOR)

A rights-based governance framing for controlled AI execution under uncertainty and institutional authority.

ELEANORrightsoversight
Open on Zenodo

Oct 2025

Report

Routing Uncertainty in AI Systems

An argument that uncertainty should trigger routing, escalation, abstention, retrieval, or human review.

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Open on ORCID

Sep 2025

Framework

Ensemble Software Engineering

A practical method for using specialist roles, repeatable packs, and comparative review in AI-assisted engineering.

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Open on GitHub

Research that changes how systems are designed.

BDB Labs research feeds directly into BagelTech products and BPV advisory methods.

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