The one where we attempt to overcome Technical Dependency with more AI.

The Distant Field Labs “Apparently” Thought-Provoking, Hard-Hitting, Overly Simplistic and Unnecessarily Blunt Attempt At Explaining The “Return to Office” Conflict.

If we are what we eat, Generative AI is you.

Is Generative AI the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ of Tech? Impressive, but not fully dressed yet.

Artificial Intelligence is your saviour, steadfast and true.

Today we are opening our new report The Great Augmentation. Within this report, we take a look at the risks, considerations and good bits of LLMs in the modern workplace. Oh, and we have licensed all our work under CC-BY-NC 4.0 to help keep innovation in the light.

In which we hypothesise that innovation is dying in darkness. Openness in technology development can reduce redundancy and foster a culture of pride and leadership in problem-solving, ultimately enhancing the solutions we build.

Back in 2011, the Dead Internet Theory might have seemed like little more than a digital ghost story. Fast forward to today, with large-scale bot operations, rampant misinformation campaigns, and AI-generated content increasingly interacting with other AI outputs, it's time to reconsider.

We had a theory: we can better serve analysts by bringing the data to them, not the other way around. In this post we explore how we experimented with extending Google Workspace to support analyst activities in the lab.

Today we are opening access to our report Wielding the AI Hammer. In this report we take a high level look at considerations for early adopters of AI within their organisations.

Cultivating Capability in the Shadow of AI.

We needed a place to share our insights and make some big ideas public, so today we’re introducing not only why we are here but The Observatory - A place to open some of our work.

In Email Alchemy we delve into the intricacies of self-hosting email services. Acknowledging the dominance of major providers like Google, Microsoft, and Apple, we embark on constructing a self-hosted email solution, driven by the desire to avoid reliance on specific ecosystems and confronted by the challenges of successfully delivering email to the major platforms.