Research

Synthesize all rounds into a final consensus report documenting agreements, dissent, and process.

Compute consensus score from collected judgments using the appropriate statistical method.

Classify items as consensus or dissensus at a given threshold.

Apply conjunctive screening rules to eliminate candidates that fail any threshold.

How do constraints conflict with each other? — Evaporating Cloud + assumption challenging + injection to resolve constraint conflicts

Calibrates confidence scores based on debate progression. Determines whether to escalate, continue, or terminate based on cumulative evidence.

Standardize evaluation condition differences across papers — 20 methods, 60 data points, 30 web searches budget

Compare and standardize experimental conditions across papers

Record evaluation conditions (data splits, hyperparams, hardware, seeds) from a paper

Map which assumptions are load-bearing by assessing how the conclusion changes if each assumption fails.

Quantify how much conclusions change across all assumption negations and produce a sensitivity ranking.

Build articles × concepts coverage matrix to visualize research landscape and identify empty cells as gap candidates.

Build concept levels from purpose through concepts to ideas, with escape and fractionation at each level.

Expand from purpose to concepts to directions to ideas (de Bono Concept Fan)

Expand concept fan from purpose through concepts to directions to ideas (de Bono Concept Fan).

Fauconnier-Turner 4-space model: Generic + Input1 + Input2 → Blended Space

Normalize results by compute budget (Pareto analysis)

Generate compressed conflicts (oxymorons) from problem contradictions and extract concrete idea directions from the symbolic tension.

Component-level surgical operations (subtract/multiply/divide/unify/redirect) from Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT).

Decompose system into functional components, identify dependencies, and surface trimming candidates.

Competitor perspective — design strategies to defeat this solution, then use attack vectors to improve it.

Use when evaluating whether a research idea clears the AER top-5 bar, when routing between AER, AER:Insights, and the AEJ family, or when sharpening a fuzzy contribution sentence into one publishable claim. Apply before any writing begins.

Use when running the final pre-submission audit for an AER, AER:Insights, or AEJ manuscript — length, format, cover letter, per-author disclosure statements, file packaging, and routing among the AEA journal family. Apply immediately before clicking submit.

Use when the main empirical results exist but the manuscript lacks the robustness, heterogeneity, mechanism, and placebo checks that AER referees will demand. Apply after aer-identification and before aer-introduction so that the value-added paragraph can reference these tests.