Decisions under uncertainty.

EBK is a quantitative research firm. We study how decisions get made when the outcome is unknown, then build AI systems that hold up under the same scrutiny.

The practice

Research first. Engineering that answers to it.

Research

Quantitative Research

Five programs: evolving agent populations, placebo-grade evaluation, calibrated forecasting, real-time market data, and self-hosted inference. This is where our evaluation methods are developed and stress-tested.

Research
  • Multi-agent decision systems
  • Evaluation methodology
  • Calibrated forecasting
  • Market data engineering
  • Self-hosted inference

Applied

AI Engineering

Production AI built alongside the people who use it. Connectors, governed agents, and the tests that keep them honest.

House ruleThe AI extracts. Deterministic code verifies every number.

Systems

  • MCP connectors
  • Governed agents with human approval at consequential steps
  • Auditable, reproducible decision support
  • Evaluation and regression testing
  • Production systems built with their users

Federal, state & local

EBK Public Sector

American-built AI for public missions. Our government practice, built on the research and the engineering. Governed, auditable AI for federal, state and local agencies, delivered with its evaluation evidence and its code.

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EBK Public Sector
  • Read-only by default
  • Portable across models and vendors
  • Evaluation gates before production
  • Full code to the Government's repository

Evidence

What we can show.

Research

~500

Autonomous agents in an evolving population, where only agents that pass a false-discovery test at 5% may reproduce. 1,090 evolution cycles in 34 days.

Agha, CMC Senior Thesis, 2026

Calibration

0.145

Expected calibration error after calibration, down from 0.252, on a held-out window split by time. Brier score fell from 0.259 to 0.211.

Market data

15,000+

Prediction-market instruments tracked in a real-time order-book lake spanning five venue feeds, with timestamps aligned across sources.

Contact

Bring us the hard decision.

Research collaborations, AI engineering engagements, and public sector work.