Research

Deeper work: benchmarks, whitepapers, evidence

Longer-form investigations where a blog post is not enough — reproducible tests, measured trade-offs and written conclusions.

Current Research

Whitepaper

Single-node analytics at scale

Measuring where a local columnar engine stops being enough, across eight query shapes and three data volumes.

In progress · 2026

Benchmark

Retrieval quality under real questions

A labelled evaluation set drawn from production support tickets, scored against four chunking strategies.

Published · 2026

Field Study

Where cloud data budgets leak

Patterns observed across platform migrations, and the guardrails that stopped the spend from drifting.

Published · 2025