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Research, field notes and honest postmortems from the work behind our products and systems.

The Blackshape Prime two-seat aircraft as a see-through digital twin on a dark grid floor: the engine cover cut away to show the engine, two tan leather seats, the landing gear down, and a band above the wing, blue at the tips and amber at the centre, showing the computed lift along the span.

Latest · Research and Development · 7 min read

Can AI agents build a digital twin of an aircraft? We tested it

We asked two AI agents to build a digital twin of a real aircraft, then tested it like engineers would. What worked, what did not, and why it matters.

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A row of glass-enclosed automated lab machines in a dark laboratory at night, each lit from inside, with a robotic gantry moving a sample plate above trays of plates, pipette tips and tubes.

Research and Development · 18 min read

Always-On Research and the Future of Science

We went looking for the labs already running research around the clock, and for who ends up owning what they find.

A whitewashed house with a converted windmill at dusk, its glazed living and dining rooms lit warmly under a vine-covered pergola, beneath a clear starry sky over a dry meadow.

Research and Development · 21 min read

AI Just Solved 3D. Here's How We Designed an Observatory House in Alentejo, Portugal

Early impressions of OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra, and how well it thinks in 3D. We gave it a house, a telescope and a business case to hold at the same time.

The Darkmatter Agents workspace, showing an invoice-processing workflow, on a thin display standing in shallow water at dusk, with a low red sun on the horizon.

Postmortem · 5 min read

What We Learned Building Darkmatter Agents

It began as a client project and became a product we tried to sell. What we got wrong about workflows and agents, and where the attention goes now.

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