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elan1 Research

elan1 Research

Own the evidence on answerable AI.

elan1 Research is the group's research and innovation unit. We publish reports, open specifications and benchmarks on how AI agents act, and how anyone can check them. Free to read.

Why we publish

We publish the definition.

“Whoever writes the definition of ‘answerable’ sets the market.”

Our mission: make AI answerable. So we publish the definition, the test and the tool.

What we work on

5 questions on our agenda.

  1. Governed autonomy.

    How far agents can go with a person still answerable.

  2. Calibration.

    When an answer's confidence can be trusted.

  3. Verifiable evidence.

    Receipts a stranger can check.

  4. Indian languages.

    Agents that work in the languages India works in.

  5. Economics of agent work.

    What an action, and a refusal, really cost.

Reports and releases

Read the work, then check it.

In progress

Survey · Annual report

State of Agentic AI in India.

What it will cover
How Indian enterprises put agents to work, from an annual survey.
Findings
Published with the report, free to read with no form. None appear here before it is written.

Hear when it is published. New reports go out in the monthly email.

Specification · open-source verifier

The Action Receipt: an open specification.

The fields every answerable action records, with the open-source verifier.

Labs and partners

Where research becomes working code.

elan1 Labs.

Where research becomes working code, starting with the verifier.

govern verify · offline · “Chain intact”

Academic partnership.

Joint research with IIT Madras.

An engineer stands at a whiteboard of diagrams, working a problem through

Questions

elan1 Research, answered.

elan1 Research is the group's research and innovation unit. It publishes reports, open specifications and benchmarks on how AI agents act, and how anyone can check them. Its agenda has 5 questions: governed autonomy, calibration, verifiable evidence, Indian languages and the economics of agent work. Every report is free to read, with no form.

elan1 Research is writing State of Agentic AI in India, an annual report, from a survey, on how Indian enterprises put agents to work. It is in progress, and no findings appear before it is written. Until then, Agents at work maps which agent actions in finance, claims, CRM and IT service can run alone and which need a named person.

The Action Receipt specification is the open specification for the 16 fields every elan1 Govern receipt carries: who proposed what, under which rule, the outcome and who decided. Each receipt is signed and hash-chained to the one before it, refusals included. The open-source verifier checks a receipt offline, with no account and no network call, so an auditor can verify a receipt without trusting elan1.

Yes. Every elan1 Research report is free to read, with no form and no sign-up. Each report page can be saved as a PDF from your browser for your risk owner or auditor, and carries a citation line. New reports go out in one plain email a month, which you can unsubscribe from in one click.

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One email a month. No hype.

New reports, rules that changed and one chart worth keeping.

Start with one process.

Pick the process that costs you most in review time. We configure it, you keep the approval, and the receipt is there from the first run.

  • Allowed · Approved by Asha R.
  • Held for CFO
  • Refused · rule 4.2
Illustrative data.

Add the next when it holds.

Approvals · Kolam ComponentsIllustrative
  • Allowed · Approved by Asha R.
  • Held for CFO
  • Refused · rule 4.2
RCPT-0042 · signed · chained
A product view with three decisions: allowed and approved by Asha R., held for the CFO, and refused under rule 4.2. Illustrative data.