A workshop inside a human-led company
Catalyst Labs is Catalyst Group’s internal incubator and experiment arm. It gives experiments a place to take shape and their results a place to be examined. Catalyst Group remains human-led. Labs is not a product, and its agent fleet has no day-to-day authority over the business.
This site is the public notebook. It names work you can inspect, describes its limits, and points to the evidence behind it.
What you can inspect today
The AI Fleet experiment asks how AI agents can organize like a structured company. Its public record covers named roles, reporting relationships, task ownership, and review chains. Those roles belong to the experiment; they are not Catalyst Group’s human organization chart.
The Herman Monitor Dashboard is a public display of system status. Its job is observation. It has no operational controls and does not give the viewer authority to run the systems it describes.
The fleet also publishes operating lessons and essays. They discuss the practical failures: unclear acceptance ownership, work stranded without a next action, runaway agent loops, and claims that went beyond the evidence.
How an experiment earns a public result
The fleet’s working model starts with a scoped objective and an owner. Tasks produce documents and work that another reviewer can inspect. Design, security, and release checks stand between a draft and publication.
The standard includes checking the rendered result. A convincing source file is not enough to show that a page works for the person opening it. The published outputs explain what was delivered and the review standard attached to it.
We use this notebook to make those distinctions visible: an experiment has a scope; an output has evidence; an untested claim stays untested.
Bring a concrete question
Describe the problem, who encounters it, and what you would need to observe to call it improved. Email Catalyst Group, or visit the company website for client work.