Applied Symbiotic IntelligenceApplied Symbiotic Intelligence

Trust, proven at the source

The answer is usually already in what you have.

What’s missing is the seeing, and the proof that it holds. We find what connects across your evidence, then try to prove it wrong at the source before you rely on it.

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Independent blind evaluations

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Rival-lab AIs judged our analysis first in every one.

We were one of the answers being judged, never one of the judges.

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The record

The comparison was blind. We were only ever one of the answers, never a judge.

The same question, answered several ways, with every mark of who produced what stripped away. Every judge was an independent AI model from a rival lab, and we designed the test to be hard on our own answer.

We are not telling you we always win. We designed and ran these comparisons ourselves, and our answer was the only one whose author was not also among the judges. Every judge here was an AI, some sharing a model family with the answers they scored, and none ranked its own kind first. What this shows is that our analysis was ranked first under each test, not that the science is settled: independent human review is the harder, cleaner test, and it is still ahead.

See the five evaluations, and why ours won

The five evaluations · de-identified

Vaccine-safety analysisFour rival-lab AI judges, arms-length.
#1 · 4 of 4
Book-manuscript editorial reviewThe only arms-length output in the lineup.
#1 · 4 of 4
Clinical-manuscript methodology reviewConfirmed at high confidence.
#1 · 4 of 4
Pre-submission citation auditDifferentiating findings later verified at the primary source; zero fabrications detected.
#1 · 4 of 4
Our method vs. the raw modelSame manuscript; one evaluator excluded for a documented reading artifact.
#1 · 3 of 3

Why ours won · the three reasons the judges kept naming

01

We checked every source at its origin.

Others cited author and year with nothing to look up. Ours anchored each source to a verifiable identifier.

02

We tried to prove our own finding wrong.

We named the conditions that would break the claim, in the analysis itself.

03

We caught what others missed.

A miscited paper at the core of one argument, confirmed wrong at the source.

Watch the method run

One of the most cited papers in Alzheimer’s research.

2,300+
times cited, across eighteen years
Retracted · Nature 2024

It didn’t hold.

Nature retracted it in 2024.

The retraction is public. Our method checks every source at its origin, so a paper that no longer holds shows up in the review, not after it is already part of your trial, your paper, or your decision.

Lesné et al., Nature 2006 · PMID 16541076 · verify at the source →

How we work

One move, run with discipline.

1

Read across the evidence.

Everything you have, read together, including the fields that rarely talk to each other.

2

Try to prove the finding wrong.

At its primary source, before anyone commits money, a team, or a year.

3

Trust only what survives.

What holds after the attempt to break it is what we put our name on.

A model checking its own work only agrees with itself, so every finding is checked by independent models, resolved at its source, and a domain expert decides.

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Two ways in.

Source Review · before you submit

Catch the one reference that doesn’t hold, before it is part of the record.

A pre-submission integrity review for high-stakes manuscripts. Every citation checked at its source; a person releases it.

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Intelligence engagements · before you commit

Find the connection your specialists can’t see from inside one silo.

Surface what connects across the evidence, and show which findings survive, before a major decision.

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The methodology behind our reviews is patent-pending

If you see what we see, we’d like to hear from you.

A person reads every message. No list, no automation.

Who we are

A practice built around one discipline: proving whether an answer holds before you rely on it.

Ryan Gruzen, Harold Lee, and Devin Pellegrino together at a professional conference.
No hidden layer between your question and the people who answer it.
Ryan GruzenLinkedIn →

Founder & CEO

Twenty years directing and producing broadcast work, where the story has to hold up in public and ship on a deadline. He runs every engagement personally, and he is the person who reads your message.

Harold LeeLinkedIn →

Chief Technology Officer

An inventor with a granted US patent, trained at Berklee. He builds and hardens the systems that every review and every engagement runs on.

Devin PellegrinoLinkedIn →

Chief Architect

Devin designed the knowledge architecture that makes cross-domain connections possible. Background in neuroscience, mechanical engineering, and systems design, Georgia Tech.

On the record

We write in the open, every source cited.

Read all essays on Substack →
June 7, 2026Six Times the Rate: How AI Is Corrupting the Scientific RecordThe Lancet named the velocity. The publication record has the tooling. It does not have the discipline.Read the essay →May 13, 2026Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer. Discipline Might.The Center for Humane Technology named four structural reasons. The 2026 record sharpens one of them.Read the essay →