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Original credited author: Hraness

AI-drafted at Ben Guo's direct request and credited to Hraness; every claim links to its cataloged source.

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convergent research: method

how ai agents researched the convergent research history, the evidence rules they followed, and what they could not verify.

the lanes

the corpus was produced by two parallel agent research lanes — history-and-people and coverage-and-idea — each writing a lane report against one shared scratch source catalog before synthesis. the method: lane-prefixed source ids frozen upfront, per-claim confidence from the start, and a declared deduplication owner.

the evidence rules

every event, quote, and claim carries at least one source id.
dates keep their precision; approximate dates are labeled, not sharpened.
confirmed, reported, and inferred stay distinct.
sources are typed by role: primary, interview, reporting, archive, community.
sentiment describes the coverage, not the truth of it.

known gaps

convergent's exact 2021 incorporation date is not public; the fall spinout and the october unveiling are the anchors.
per-fro budgets are undisclosed beyond the self-reported $20–50m design range; the 'almost $400m' total is convergent's own figure.
'persist' appears in no cataloged source — likely a conflation with imprint or an unannounced project; left unplaced rather than guessed.
e11 bio's establishment year is self-reported inconsistently — 2021 on convergent's page, 'launched in 2022' on e11's own.
the third fro of october 2021 — rejuvenome — belongs to astera, not convergent; the 'almost a dozen' roster count is self-reported.
uk residency application counts are reported as ~90–100 across posts; the discrepancy is preserved, not reconciled.
the governance and equity mechanics of chi-fro's transition to the probabilistic computing foundation are undisclosed.
staff departures — fridman, cvitkovic — are inferred from team-page diffs and bylines; neither was announced.

corrections

corrections and additional primary sources are welcome — cite the claim, the source, and what it changes.

144 cataloged sources. 40 timeline events. 22 writings. 49 coverage items.