London — The day-job work this month is taking the legal and regulatory agent-team system at Altery from a shared library of fifty-one specialist experts into a routed configuration with explicit verifier-builder pairs and escalation contracts. The interesting question, with token costs forced back into the decision, is how much of the routing logic still earns its keep.
On the bench, Cosmic Copilot is the active project — a thousand and sixty-eight commits in the last ninety days, the iOS app pulling ahead of the web. The web app is now the reference implementation; the iOS app is being allowed to drift toward the more honest, in-the-moment surface that a phone affords.
AEO Platform shipped its first hundred and twenty commits this quarter and has moved past hallucination detection into a real recommendations workspace. QTax is in a quiet period; the next push is reserved for the tax-year cutover.
— V. U., 26 May 2026