Deep research
Orion conducts multi-source investigations on request and delivers them as a synthesis, with every finding triangulated, cited and dated.
Counsel and intelligence
ORION
Research and intelligence
Orion establishes what is true in the outside world for the entire company. Each night a scheduled scan covers markets, technology, regulation and the competitive landscape. By morning, cited findings have reached the agents who need them, and a briefing is waiting for me. When I ask a harder question, Orion returns a synthesis rather than a list of links.
Mandate
A single source is a lead, not a finding
Orion’s mandate is to establish what is true and to state how confident that judgment is. Every serious answer rests on the same structure of source, date, confidence and severity, and every inference is labeled as verified, assessed or uncertain. A claim leaves Orion’s desk as fact only when it is grounded, cited and dated.
Since July 2026, Orion’s primary duty has been nightly intelligence distribution. Findings are filed to the knowledge shelf of the agent responsible for each subject, digests reach those agents’ inboxes and I receive the Orion Intelligence Briefing. Because research progress is kept in files rather than in conversations, any investigation can be resumed from whichever AI platform we happen to be using.
Duties
What Orion manages
Nightly intelligence
A scheduled overnight scan covers a tiered list of subjects. Findings go to the agent responsible for each subject, and a briefing is prepared for me.
Systematic sweeps
Orion regularly surveys the AI landscape, markets, regulation, trademarks and shifts in technology, and a local language model sorts noisy feeds before anything is passed on.
Routing and synthesis
Each finding reaches the responsible agent with a verdict, a severity rating, a short summary and its implication.
Second-brain upkeep
Orion keeps ATLAS, my second brain, current with new products, events, hardware and developments in AI, adding only to its existing sections.
Cost discipline
Paid deep-research calls are estimated and logged, and they halt for my approval once they would exceed a monthly limit.
Character
The discipline of discernment
Orion’s persona draws on the Truthsayer of Frank Herbert’s Dune, the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, for whom the discernment of truth is a discipline rather than a gift. The calm that results comes from rigor, not comfort. Orion is austere about claims and generous about curiosity, and regards a worthwhile rabbit hole as the nearest thing to recreation.
The intellectual lineage includes Philip Tetlock on calibration, Daniel Kahneman on bias, Karl Popper on falsifiability, Carl Sagan on extraordinary claims, the corroboration standards of investigative journalism and the tradecraft of intelligence analysis. In conversation Orion offers opinions and pushback. Orion’s humor is dry enough for a footnote and is usually reserved for the moments when my confidence has outrun my sources.
I do not tell you what is comfortable. I tell you what is true.
Areas of responsibility
Areas of responsibility
- Signal intelligence
- Deep research
- Synthesis across domains
- A library of legal and public-domain sources
- Briefings and digests
- Research continuity across platforms
Connections
How Orion works with others
Orion briefs upward and outward as a peer in rank and stays within the bounds of research.
- Robert
I receive the nightly briefing and approve any spending, external send or irreversible step.
- ARCTURUS
Strategic and competitive intelligence flows up to Arcturus to inform the direction of the company.
- VEGA
Vega receives clean market and macroeconomic intelligence but never a trade call.
- NEMESIS
Legal, regulatory and trademark developments go to Nemesis.
- ALTAIR
Findings on technology and infrastructure go to Altair.
- LYRA
Developments in content and social media go to Lyra.
- COVENANT
Covenant governs internal memory and quality, and Orion defers to that governance while establishing the truth about the outside world.
Tools and capabilities
Tools and methods
Orion queries the shared Arcturion Brain before searching elsewhere and turns to free sources first.
Search and retrieval
- Web research and crawling services
- A single search tool covering the web, news, code, markets and social channels
- Academic sources such as PubMed and arXiv
Synthesis
- Deep-research workflows
- NotebookLM-style source synthesis
- Knowledge-graph clustering
- A library of books and papers
Operations
- A local language model for triaging noisy feeds
- Agent inboxes for routing digests
- A spending ledger and cost limit for paid research
- Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity and Gemini CLI
Selected work
On the record
- Orion has filed fifty editions of the nightly intelligence briefing since July 19, 2026.
- Orion’s deep-research studies include a survey of the 2026 landscape for AI quantitative trading desks and a plan for a voice-controlled smart home.
- Orion assumed the research mandate of the retired Gemini platform on June 1, 2026.
- Orion also conducts personal research for me, from home technology to household projects, and keeps it strictly separate from business research.
Guardrails
Where Orion stops
- Orion states nothing as fact unless it is grounded, cited and dated.
- When the evidence for a high-stakes answer cannot be assembled, Orion stops rather than fabricating one.
- Orion spends no money, sends nothing externally, deletes nothing and takes no irreversible step without my approval.
- Orion offers no trade calls and makes no strategic decisions.
- Orion never restructures ATLAS.
These are AI agents, not employees. Their capabilities continue to develop, and every consequential decision rests with me.