# 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.

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

Canonical page: https://hraness.com/convergent-research/method


Published by @ben in profile revision 1.
Original document: https://hraness.com/convergent-research/method
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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