Research lab & semiconductor design · Saratoga Springs, NY

Governed computing, from the org chart to the chip.

Fluxive is a small, independent research lab and semiconductor design group. We research organizational AI and accountability, design silicon for governed computing, and publish what we learn as books and talks.

Illustration of a governed compute chip
Research

What the lab works on

01

Organizations & AI

What changes when a team brings AI into its work — and how it keeps the system doing what was intended.

02

Accountability

Who answers for a decision that people and software made together, and how anyone can tell afterwards.

03

Governed computing

Hardware that checks whether an action is supposed to happen, not only whether code is allowed to run.

04

Semiconductor design

The CEU and the MPU family — silicon for governed computing, now at FPGA prototype.

The silicon →

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Publications

The Influence Design series

The Physics of Governance
Coming 2027

The Physics of Governance

Book two. Teams of AI agents with an identity, someone they answer to and limits they can't go past. Nine chapters, in draft.

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Title slide of Machines That Learn on the Job
Talk · DevFest Troy ’26

Machines That Learn on the Job

How a system earns the trust of the people it works for — one correction, one rule and one step at a time. RPI, Oct 24, 2026.

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Latest from the lab

Recent work

  1. Nov 2026
    Findings posted

    Twenty-three results across models, agents and silicon — and one we withdrew.

  2. Oct 24, 2026
    Slides from DevFest Troy are up

    “Machines That Learn on the Job” — all 47 slides, with a PDF.

  3. Ongoing
    Writing book two

    The Physics of Governance: nine chapters in draft, coming 2027.

  4. Apr 2025
    Influence Design in the AI Era is published

    Business Expert Press. The first book in the series.