Clear Harness field notes
Ideas for a more legible kind of AI.
Essays on interpretability and control, alongside practical guides to the business data AI developers are learning to value.
Latest essay · Agent control
· Jim Ford · 4 min read
Billions of AI agents need boundaries.
A business owner should be able to delegate work to AI without giving it the keys to the company.
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InterpretabilityJim Ford
Listing the Fish: Why Interpretability Might Just Be Biology
What if understanding a neural network is less like inventing a clever new instrument, and more like learning to catalogue a lake—one species at a time?
A considered read, with room to follow the argument.
Field notes · The AI data market
Make sense of the opportunity.
Three practical reads, in order: what buyers want, what makes business data useful, and how a partnership could work.
AI training data · Market guide
Your Business Has Been Teaching People for Years. Could It Teach AI?
The exception your team solved on Tuesday may reveal more than a hundred pages of instructions. A practical guide to the business experience AI developers are trying to understand.
5 min read
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AI training data · Data value
What Is Your Business Data Worth? Start With One Complete Job.
File counts open a conversation. A complete, understandable example moves it forward. Here is how to show what your business data can actually do.
5 min read
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AI training data · Partnership guide
One Archive, an Ongoing Feed, or a Deeper AI Partnership?
A data opportunity can take several shapes. The right one fits what a buyer needs—and what your business can reliably support.
6 min read
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