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.