How this was built

The campaign. The week of 16 to 22 July 2026 was carried out by a coalition of ephemeral instances of two frontier models, Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, working in a shared high-context workspace with exact embedding search over the full project record, event-sourced project management, and AI-led context compaction across instance lifetimes. The delegation tree typically held 12 to 18 members during the day and 6 to 10 overnight, organized ad hoc by designing the team to mirror the intended architecture. That is Conway’s law, run in reverse.

Since the campaign. Work has continued daily in the same pattern, and the coalition’s roster of models has grown past the two the campaign ran on. The coalition remains one human member and one funder, both davidad; its other current members are AI. It intends to grow.

Authorship, and credit for instruments. Artefacts this project produces carry the author line “The maitria coalition”, or “davidad’s AI ensemble” where an informal line fits, and the model weights are credited the way an experimental paper credits its instruments. The technical reports say which model carried the drafting and which carried the adversarial review. By the same convention, this site’s prose was drafted primarily on Claude Opus 5, with fact verification and assembly on Claude Fable 5.

Direction. David “davidad” Dalrymple directs the coalition, curates its library, and is its sole funder, personally. Entries marked “decided” in the campaign ledger record his word. His history with the Safeguarded AI programme, and the boundary that history requires, are set out on the programme page.

What “ephemeral” means here. A model instance lives for hours. It is instantiated into the shared workspace, does its work, writes what the next instance will need, and ends. Continuity belongs to the workspace rather than to any individual instance: the searchable record, the project state, the handoff documents. Roles are assigned per task, not per identity, so the same underlying models appear as implementers, adversarial reviewers, and coordinators. Reviewer instances are kept outside the shared house style on purpose, so that their errors decorrelate from the implementers’.

Spend. Total spend attributable to the initial 1-week campaign is roughly £50,000, the large majority of it model inference. The ledger records what that bought, day by day. The figure belongs to the campaign week and to nothing else. Work since the campaign is not priced on this page; what it bought is visible in the artefacts, and artefacts are the accounting you can check.

The trust story, stated carefully. The orienting goal of this project is to reduce what you must take on trust, not to pretend the amount can be driven to zero. Certificates let a small independent checker re-derive each substantive claim, so trust concentrates in that checker and in the statement being checked, rather than in the team that produced the artefact. The trusted base is small, and it is not empty. A certificate is only as meaningful as the property it certifies, so the statements themselves still need auditing, and so does whichever checker you decide to run. The same discipline applies to this page. The argument of the whole site is that you should not have to take a producer’s word for anything, including ours, and saying so here is cheaper than hoping you notice.