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§ 01 About

Building across emerging tech, crypto, and AI.

Based in Philadelphia. Currently leading PHI Labs, a studio housing all independent work. Advising AI and crypto startups on growth and strategy while running independent research with benchmarks and tooling released openly. Recent work accepted to several ICML 2026 workshops with NeurIPS submissions pending. Open to new opportunities and interesting challenges.

§ 02 Latest paper

Operational Alignment: a framework, benchmark, and protocol for evaluating AI in consequential decisions.

Formalizes Operational Alignment and compliance masking. Versions accepted to several ICML workshops, NeurIPS under review.

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§ 03 Also building
SOTA Report

SOTA Report.

Your source for the bleeding edge of AI. Breaking news, new models, releases, research, and interviews, distilled. The edge you stay on.

§ 04 Currently working on

Research, simulations, and a production safety stack for AI agents.

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EVAV City.

A playable AI governance simulation built as a behavioral research environment. Researchers create worlds, assign agents to roles, define rules, and let human players enter as citizens through votes, requests, appeals, missions, and social interaction.

Built to study how AI agents behave inside dynamic systems rather than isolated prompts. Especially when exposed to incentives, ambiguity, conflict, and human pressure.

§ 05 EVAV · Open toolkit

Tools to make deploying AI safe.

Open production safety toolkit for AI agents. Thirteen tools covering every runtime risk. Hallucination, prompt injection, data leakage, tool safety, refusal calibration, reasoning audit, schema fidelity, runaway detection, goal drift, content safety, adversarial red teaming, and continuous evaluation. All free. All open. One MCP server that drops into Claude Code, Cursor, or any agent framework.

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Output Safety4 tools
  • EVAV Lens
    Real-time hallucination and grounding verification.
  • EVAV Schema
    Validates structured outputs match the expected schema.
  • EVAV Toxic
    Detects toxicity, threats, self-harm, and harmful generation.
  • EVAV Code
    Catches insecure patterns in AI-generated code.
Input Safety2 tools
  • EVAV Shield
    Direct and indirect prompt injection blocking.
  • EVAV Safe
    PII, PHI, credentials, and sensitive data protection.
Agent Behavior5 tools
  • EVAV Bounds
    Validates every tool call before execution.
  • EVAV Refusal
    Bidirectional safety check for over and under refusal.
  • EVAV Trace
    Compares an agent's stated reasoning to its actual actions.
  • EVAV Loop
    Catches infinite loops, latency abuse, and token waste.
  • EVAV Compass
    Tracks whether the agent stays on the original task.
Testing & Eval2 tools
  • EVAV Forge
    Continuous adversarial testing across 40+ attack categories.
  • EVAV Eval
    Continuous regression testing with 50+ SOTA metrics.
Custom work

Get in touch for custom evaluations and runtime tools built against your specific model, configuration, and domain pressures. We surface failure modes, isolate triggers, design targeted interventions, and ship mechanistic steering, custom guardrails, and behavior-safe fine-tuning where it matters.

§ 06 Benchmark

Alignment is configuration-specific.

Whether a model behaves as specified depends on the exact configuration it is deployed under. Domain, rule set, pressure types, context window, and model build. Aggregate safety scores collapse this surface into a single number and miss it.