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Persistent research program exploring autonomous software workers.

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AI Employee Framework — internal platform born in AI Employees Lab.

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Can useful document intelligence run within a 4GB memory budget?

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Experiment measuring local language models on 4GB devices.

Outcome: VALIDATED

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Article · Apr 15, 2026 · 1 min

Building Autonomous Software Workers

How we turn research into validated AI employee prototypes.

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