# The lab's named concepts

Source: https://dinand.com/research/concepts/
Author: Dinand Tinholt

> Each concept the lab has named in public work, in alphabetical order, with a one-sentence definition. Every page gives the longer explanation, the headline number where a live piece carries one, and the campaign and piece it comes from. 7 concepts.

1.

[Accountability Rent](https://dinand.com/research/concepts/accountability-rent/)

The extra value that goes to whoever can answer for an irreversible outcome once AI makes thinking cheap.

2.

[Cognition-Accountability Grid](https://dinand.com/research/concepts/cognition-accountability-grid/)

A two-axis chart that places an AI initiative by how much judgement the model performs and how much consequence attaches to being wrong.

3.

[Decision Head](https://dinand.com/research/concepts/decision-head/)

A small service that takes the state of a case and a list of typed questions and returns a probability for each answer, on a model you host.

4.

[Delegation Cliff](https://dinand.com/research/concepts/delegation-cliff/)

The point where pushing work further from human review stops paying for itself.

5.

[Error Independence](https://dinand.com/research/concepts/error-independence/)

The property that makes a second opinion worth having: when one checker is wrong, the other is wrong on different items.

6.

[Sprawl cost under a fixed monitoring budget](https://dinand.com/research/concepts/sprawl-cost/)

What a fleet of agents costs as it grows when the monitoring budget stays flat, which here rises faster than the fleet does.

7.

[Trial Balance](https://dinand.com/research/concepts/trial-balance/)

An audit that compares the ledger of what an agent owes with the log of what it ran, and reads only where the two fail to balance.

A concept appears here once a public piece carries it. Concepts whose pieces are still queued are not listed.

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