elan1 Research
Own the evidence on answerable AI.
elan1 Research is the group's research and innovation unit. We publish reports, open specifications and benchmarks on how AI agents act, and how anyone can check them. Free to read.
Why we publish
We publish the definition.
“Whoever writes the definition of ‘answerable’ sets the market.”
What we work on
5 questions on our agenda.
Governed autonomy.
How far agents can go with a person still answerable.
Calibration.
When an answer's confidence can be trusted.
Verifiable evidence.
Receipts a stranger can check.
Indian languages.
Agents that work in the languages India works in.
Economics of agent work.
What an action, and a refusal, really cost.
Reports and releases
Read the work, then check it.
Paper · October 2026 · 4 min read
Agents at work: where enterprise automation needs a person
A practical map of which agent actions can run alone, and which need a named person.
elan1 research team
Read free · no formPaper · September 2026 · 4 min read
The confidence line: where AI hands a claim to a person
Calibrated confidence and a signed cost matrix decide which claims a handler sees.
elan1 research team
Read free · no formBrief · July 2026 · 3 min read
Fail toward a human, never toward an action
What should happen when an AI system is unsure, or goes down.
elan1 research team
Read free · no formPaper · June 2026 · 3 min read
A record a stranger can check: designing an audit trail for agents
Why an agent's record should be verifiable offline, without trusting the vendor.
elan1 research team
Read free · no form
Survey · Annual report
State of Agentic AI in India.
- What it will cover
- How Indian enterprises put agents to work, from an annual survey.
- Findings
- Published with the report, free to read with no form. None appear here before it is written.
Hear when it is published. New reports go out in the monthly email.
Specification · open-source verifier
The Action Receipt: an open specification.
The fields every answerable action records, with the open-source verifier.
Labs and partners
Where research becomes working code.
elan1 Labs.
Where research becomes working code, starting with the verifier.
govern verify · offline · “Chain intact”
Academic partnership.
Joint research with IIT Madras.
Questions
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