01Research
Why organizations get less intelligent as they grow
Cognito Research studies how customer, financial and operational perspectives reach — or fail to reach — the people making decisions. We're developing the Dagz Scale to measure that flow. The instrument is early: it has been applied internally, with a six-company cohort underway.
02The Dagz Scale
Perspectives integrated per decision
Our working instrument for turning an organizational bottleneck into something specific enough to examine and measure. The Dagz Scale assesses how structurally an organization integrates distinct perspectives into decisions — from isolated input at Level 0 to autonomous integration at Level 5.
Count alone is not intelligence — more voices in a room can slow a decision as easily as sharpen it. What the scale measures is whether a perspective arrives in time, with context, to someone accountable.
03What we publish
- WP 01The Synthesis ThesisA unified theory of intelligence · PDF · v0.1
- WP 02Selection, Integration & CommitmentThe three atoms of a decision · PDF · v0.1
Field notes
- From Hierarchy to Intelligence: A Different PathSystems Thinking · Essay
- Someone tried to hijack our AI agent — and our support reps’ browsersEngineering · Security post-mortem · PDF
- Someone tried to hijack our AI agent — and our support reps’ browsersEngineering · 10 min read
- We stopped trying to make our AI smarter. We gave it a sense of who it was instead.Systems Thinking · 6 min read
- Building Martha Into Something Businesses Can Depend OnSystems Thinking · 2 min read
Cohort results — Field Notes forthcoming, Q4 2026.
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