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THE COGNITA RED-TEAM SERIES · NEW

We don't wait for the next AI incident.
We commission the postmortem.

Every public AI incident in the last 18 months — Air Canada chatbot, NYC MyCity, Klarna's customer-service rollback — ended the same way: "we couldn't reconstruct what the agent did." Cognita's answer is to commission red-team exercises on consenting partners' agent systems and publish the full Merkle-anchored reconstruction trail. The canonical reference for what audit-grade looks like, without waiting for someone else's bad day.

WHAT'S IN EACH ENGAGEMENT
  1. A consenting design-partner's agent system goes under credentialed AI red-team review (Apollo Research / METR-style engagement).
  2. Every finding the red-team produces is paired with the Merkle-anchored reconstruction trail from Cognita: agent action log, policy version hash, signature chain, S3 Object Lock receipt.
  3. Unredacted publication: paper + LinkedIn series + conference talk + podcast appearances over the following 90 days.
  4. The customer + Cognita co-publish. The customer's name is on the paper. We don't anonymize; the consent is the whole point.
WHY PROACTIVE BEATS REACTIVE
  • Timing under our control — ship the asset, then drive demand; vs. racing the news cycle when the next incident hits
  • No reputational risk — the design partner consented; findings demonstrate the platform working (catching + reconstructing the failure)
  • Becomes the canonical "this is what audit-grade looks like" reference for the AI governance category
  • Content engine — one engagement → 6 months of marketing material across multiple channels
WHAT YOU'LL SEE PUBLISHED
  • Red-team findings report (vendor-neutral, technical)
  • Cognita-side reconstruction methodology (Merkle chain, Object Passport, action log)
  • Customer post-mortem narrative (what changed in their AIMS as a result)
  • Regulatory crosswalk — what the findings would have meant under EU AI Act Article 73 incident reporting, AIDA s.12, Colorado §6-1-1703(5)
  • Open replication kit — if you run Cognita, you can audit your own agents the same way
RESULTS FROM PRIOR ENGAGEMENTS

First paper drops Q4 2026.

The series launches with the first commissioned engagement in the back half of 2026. Two design partners under consideration: a mid-market fintech with an agentic underwriting workflow and an MSP serving healthcare end-customers with a chat triage agent. Subscribe below to be notified when the first paper drops.

Subscribe to the seriesVolunteer as a design partner
HOW THIS PAIRS WITH THE 24-HOUR REACTIVE PLAYBOOK

When a major public AI incident does land (the Air Canada / NYC MyCity / Klarna cadence is roughly one every 4–8 months), Cognita publishes a 24-hour analysis showing how our customers prevent that specific category of failure, with concrete reconstruction examples from the commissioned series paper. The series is the canonical reference; the 24-hour analysis is the timing accelerator. Together they're the procurement-catalyst chain that turns "audit-grade observability" from a marketing claim into a demonstrable category.

WHAT WE WON'T DO
  • No redaction of findings to protect the partner. Consent is the whole point; selective publication breaks the credibility.
  • No fabricated red-team narratives. Every paper is a real engagement, with a real red-team firm on the byline.
  • No exclusive content unlocks. Every paper is public, every reconstruction methodology is replicable, every regulatory crosswalk is open.
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The Cognita Red-Team Series — Audit-grade reconstruction in public · Cognita GRC