about the lab
Good questions.
Experiments you can inspect.
plicara is an independent AI research lab. We study how systems behave, what makes them useful, and how to tell when they work.
What we are curious about
01. questions
Evaluation
What does a benchmark actually measure? Where does success on a test stop predicting success in use?
Systems around models
How do tools, interfaces and the information available to a model change what it can do?
How we investigate
02. practice
Start with a concrete question and a simple baseline. Build an experiment, inspect the failures, and revise the explanation when the evidence changes. State the limits alongside the result.
What we share
03. work in the open
Research articles, benchmarks and small tools that help others investigate the same questions. We aim to publish the evidence needed to check a claim, and identify gaps when that evidence is incomplete.
Find me
04. elsewhere
I am Adrian Tame, and I run plicara. You can find me in these places.