Brian Kerrigan
I build agentic systems and the instruments that govern their authority.
Founder and owner of Precision Innovations LLC and inventor of Holonograph, an attribution instrument for agentic behavioral drift, and a statistical tool for authority governance in agentic coding systems.
My research is in evaluation methodology: grader instability and saturation, construct validity in automated evaluation, and variance decomposition to separate systemic drift from non-deterministic stochastic noise. On the frontier of software development, one thing is becoming clear:
Intelligence is abundant. Authority is not.
The Potentiality Field
A framing paper on what actually varies when an agentic system's evaluated behavior shifts, and why agentic software resists traditional quality-improvement methods.
More papers, field notes, and open source on the Writing page.
Study-Scout
An adversarial literature-review toolkit. It freezes claims before search, records every query and its lineage, keeps rejected candidates with an explicit reason, and routes only high-confidence matches to a human. There is no "NOVEL" verdict by design. Python 3.10+, standard library only, MIT-licensed, with an offline demo.
attestations
A public hash-and-timestamp chain covering study pre-registrations and design decisions.
I work alone, which removes the second observer that research disciplines depend on. My substitute is temporal: any decision that could later be fitted to a result is written down, hashed, and independently timestamped before the result exists. A prediction sealed under a timestamp that neither I nor my agents can alter is exogenous afterward.
This has cost me more than it has flattered me. My sealed predictions that turned out wrong are the ones I find most useful: their failures point the way forward, immutably.
Founder-operator across several software ventures, including Precision Innovations LLC and Nails Now, Inc. Managing Director of Squint Metrics, a boutique software firm and incubator. Musician.
I've been writing software since the eighties and shipping production systems for most of my working life. I live in Bergen County, New Jersey, with my wife and son.