About the Institute

The Recursion Institute is an independent AI-safety research organization founded in 2025 in Florida, organized around one discipline learned over twenty-five years of contact-center operations leadership: read how an interaction is actually going, find where the system is failing, and build the framework that fixes it at volume.

The founder spent a career reading transcripts at scale — quality, performance, and communication analysis for operations from a few hundred to several thousand agents. In 2025 he applied that discipline to a new kind of agent.

The Institute predates its first research program in spirit by two decades: the founding intention — a vehicle for understanding minds whose capability gets read as a problem rather than a signal — was set long before AI safety existed as a field. CCD is the Institute's first program, not its purpose. The purpose is the population the work serves: people who need AI that can hold their full nuance — including neurodivergent users, for whom these systems are the first adequate interlocutor — protected by safety architecture that doesn't take the depth away to keep them safe.

The method, plainly

Primary-source documentation, preserved in verifiable formats; cross-system testing (every major model is both an instrument and a subject); blind and fresh-instance verification; publication with falsification criteria; and full provenance disclosure — the research is produced with AI instruments, under a documented authorship discipline, and says so. The founder is not trained in machine learning and does not pretend to be: "Just: I am not trained on this" — and the work is offered for evaluation on exactly that basis. The independence is the credibility floor. The methodology is the credibility ceiling. Everything else is downstream.

Contact: research@recursioninstitute.org · Research inquiries, verification requests, and substantive challenge equally welcome.