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Evidence before prose
Without a source span, run or manifest, nothing becomes a factual claim.
Research you can inspect.
Project-local control in Basic Mode. Conversational research orchestration in Reasoner Mode.
- PRIVATE ALPHA
- PUBLIC PRD
- PUBLIC BASIC SOURCE
THE PROBLEM
The handoff is where the evidence is lost
Search, PDF tools, coding agents, experiment trackers, writing systems and orchestrators each help with part of research. The chain between them loses exact source spans, hypothesis rationale, frozen evaluation, failed runs, claim lineage, licence context and approval history. Meanwhile “paper-ready” gets read as evidence-backed.
THE PRINCIPLES
Eight rules the system is built on
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Autonomy within consent
Automatic inside the approved brief, budget, permissions and stop policy. The system never grants itself permission.
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Reuse before rebuild
Adapt, wrap and compose existing tools rather than forking large projects early.
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One canonical truth
HowHow owns durable state, events, provenance, gates and approvals. An adapter never becomes a second source of truth.
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Failures are evidence
Failed, rejected and inconclusive paths are kept, classified and reused.
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Truthful readiness
Package-ready is not the same as novel, correct, accepted, safe or submitted.
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Human-owned decisions
Direction, sensitive actions, meaningful spend and publication rest with a person.
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Portable by construction
Records and artifacts export and rebuild when provider, OS or orchestrator changes.
RESEARCH INTEGRITY
What we will not do to look better
- No unexplained metrics
- No volatile prices, no unsupported percentages and no agent-count vanity figures presented as evidence of quality.
- No orphan claims
- A claim without a resolvable evidence path is labelled unsupported rather than softened.
- No hidden failures
- The deliberately failed run stays in the record. A package without failures is treated as incomplete.
- No manufactured agreement
- Reviews run against separate snapshots. Dissent is immutable and visible.
BUILT BY
Navin Research
HowHow is developed by Navin Research for applied-ML engineers, advanced graduate students and small research teams. The Reasoner PRD and Basic Mode CLI source are public; the broader product remains private alpha.
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