Whitepapers
Decisions made through The Crusible, written up and shared. Each represents a real question, rigorously examined.
The $3,460 Question: Testing AI Deployment Assumptions Before Production Failures
Craig Borman the Crusible
OpenAI's o3 costs $3,460 per query—200x more than humans. Before deploying expensive AI systems in production, enterprises must identify the hidden assumptions that lead to catastrophic failures. This whitepaper shows why assumption testing delivers 200x-2,000x ROI.
Crucible The Coordination Problem - Completed
Craig Borman — The Crucible
Responsible disclosure — the label applied to how security vulnerabilities are found, verified, reported and patched — was never a coherent framework. It is an aspirational term masking wildly different practices across organisations, contexts, and relationships. What AI has done is make that absence of coherence impossible to ignore.
Crucible The Coordination Problem
Craig Borman Founder, Crucible — The Crucible
Responsible disclosure was never a coherent framework. AI didn't kill it — it made the incoherence impossible to ignore at scale. This paper finds the structural failures that access control solutions like Project Glasswing cannot survive, and names what replaces them. Produced using Crucible, now becoming Tanren.
Crucible The Coordination Problem
Craig Borman Founder, Crucible — The Crucible
Responsible disclosure was never a coherent framework. AI didn't kill it — it made the incoherence impossible to ignore at scale. This paper finds the structural failures that access control solutions like Project Glasswing cannot survive, and names what replaces them.
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