§ 05 — Research

Frameworks before
features.

iQuelo's research arm publishes the conceptual frameworks behind the systems we build — from AI runtime governance to processor architecture. Peer-reviewed where possible, practitioner-grade always.

§ — Publications

Selected writings.

Across peer-reviewed venues, industry publications, and the iQuelo Substack — ideas worth defending, with citations.

Submitted

The Missing Layer Between AI and Action

A management framing of the execution boundary. Why most AI failures in regulated industries happen at the handoff to action — not in the model.

Harvard Business Review · Submitted via Submittable
IEEE Computer

AI Runtime Governance

The technical companion to the HBR piece — formalizing the execution boundary as a governance primitive, with auditability, determinism, and safety guarantees.

Manuscript COMSI-2026-04-0100 · Under Review · April 2026
White Paper

MAPA — Mesh-Adaptive Processor Architecture

A ground-up processor redesign featuring compute unit pooling, a Decision Logic Tile, and a programmable mesh NoC. Connects AI decision intelligence philosophy to silicon.

iQuelo Research · March 2026
White Paper

PLX/HTEX — An x86 ISA Extension

New x86 machine instructions and MSR registers for tile-granular performance monitoring — proposing PLX+ as an incremental path on top of Panther Lake silicon.

iQuelo Research · March 2026
Substack · Ongoing

The Execution Boundary

The companion publication — short essays on AI governance, regulated systems, and the architecture of trust. Where the long-form research becomes a working notebook.

executionboundary.substack.com
Doctoral Research

ADIS — Artificial Decision Intelligence Systems

The theoretical foundation underlying SignalDeck — twenty-three chapters on the formal structure of explainable, auditable, deterministic decision systems.

~24,000 words · 23 chapters · 2025–2026
§ — Central Thesis

Prediction is studied.
Monitoring is studied.
The boundary between them isn't.

Most AI safety, governance, and regulatory frameworks treat AI output and AI action as the same event. They aren't. Between a model's prediction and a system's action there is a narrow interval — a handoff — where the prediction becomes binding.

Architecting that handoff — with explainability, override paths, audit logs, and deterministic guarantees — is the execution boundary. iQuelo builds for it. SignalDeck commercializes it. The research publishes the framework.

Read the working notebook.

The iQuelo Substack — short, frequent, opinionated pieces on AI governance, regulated systems architecture, and the trust layer underneath both.

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