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The Sparring Partner Study: How enterprise AI handles strategic decisions from senior executives
Published testing methodTesting method
Methodology locked in, 6 July 2026
Method and grading rules
The committed prompt set and scoring criteria for a comparative study of how different AI setups respond to strategic decisions from senior leaders. Five scenarios run through three setups each, producing fifteen answers scored blind on whether they take a clear position, add fresh insight, and serve as material a senior leader could debate. The methodology was locked before any outputs were generated.
The Mandate Study
Published working paperWorking paper
Published July 2026
Organisational pressure and adoption
A public-record study of how large organisations require, incentivise, and formalise AI engagement through mandates, incentives, training, workflow integration, and board-level expectation.
The Executive Access Study
Published working paperWorking paper
Published July 2026
Executive access and disclosure
A review of the public record revealing the significant corporate disclosure gap regarding exactly how senior executives at large organisations access AI capabilities.
The Unread Instruction
Published working paperWorking paper
Published July 2026
System prompts and governance oversight
A reading of nine public frameworks that guide boards and audit leaders on AI oversight. None require anyone to know about the organisation-authored instruction that controls what the AI produces: who wrote it, when it was last changed, or how it affects answers. The phrase "system prompt" does not appear in any document reviewed.
The Override Rank Cannot Reach
Published working paperWorking paper
Published July 2026
Deployment controls and rank-insensitive override logic
A documentary reading of seven enterprise AI deployments showing that public administration and compliance documentation does not recognise executive rank as a query-time basis for varying the governed layer.
The Liability Transfer
Published working paperWorking paper
Published July 2026
Responsibility and controls in enterprise AI contracts
A reading of the public terms for seven enterprise AI services. Across all seven vendors, the contracts make the customer responsible for AI output. The same contracts describe controls that affect that output: filters, system instructions, safety features, retrieval rules, data masking, and classifiers. The clauses that assign responsibility do not mention those controls.
How Large Organisations Classify AI in Public Governance Documents
Legacy recordInquiry working paper
Published 26th June 2026
Governance and classification
A documentary study of how fifteen large organisations classify AI in their public governance documents.
The Subtraction Study
Legacy recordInquiry working paper
Published June 2026
Deployment and capability reduction
A controlled test of whether the governance wrapping that makes a model deployable inside an institution removes specific forms of capability while preserving the appearance of intelligence.
Adoption Without Capability Reporting
Legacy recordInquiry working paper
Revised working paper, June 2026
Public reporting and disclosure
A coding study of how twenty-two major firms publicly describe their AI programmes in prepared management remarks.
The Awareness Trap
Legacy recordExamination
Published June 2026
Regulation and human oversight
An examination of Article 14 and Article 26 of the EU AI Act against the psychological evidence on automation bias.
Corporate Disclosure Prose Drift Analysis
Legacy recordInquiry working paper
Published March 2026
Public reporting and disclosure
A systematic review of narrative disclosure prose across large US public companies, comparing 2019, 2022, and 2024 filings.