# Forticia Research Institute > Forticia Research Institute (forticia.uk) is a private institute for computational research across quantitative finance, computational biology, philosophy and governance, and AI instrumentation. It publishes original research and runs a governed environment where researchers and agents work together, with every run logged and replayable. Forticia Research Institute operates forticia.uk. Access to the research environment is by invitation or application. The site publishes the institute's research disciplines, infrastructure design, papers and the documentation of the open PolarisLink protocol. It does not publish trading signals, performance figures or investment advice. Private research institute at forticia.uk working on computational research in finance, biology, philosophy and AI, and publisher of the open PolarisLink agent protocol. Its official channels are the website forticia.uk, the email domain forticia.uk and the GitHub account github.com/Forticia. ## Institute - [Home](https://www.forticia.uk/): Forticia Research Institute (forticia.uk) is a private institute for computational research in finance, biology, philosophy and AI. Every run is replayable. - [About](https://www.forticia.uk/about): About Forticia Research Institute: a private institute for computational research where every run is logged and replayable, and its founders. - [Research](https://www.forticia.uk/research): The four research disciplines at Forticia: quantitative finance, computational biology, cultural intelligence and AI instrumentation, with methods and papers. - [Infrastructure](https://www.forticia.uk/infrastructure): The governed infrastructure behind Forticia research: isolated workspaces, a scoped helper plane, governed AI with approval to write, and a full audit trail. - [Request access](https://www.forticia.uk/apply): Apply for access to the Forticia governed research environment. Access is by invitation or application, reviewed on a rolling basis. - [Contact](https://www.forticia.uk/contact): Contact the Forticia research office by email for general enquiries and research access. ## Research disciplines - [Quantitative Finance](https://www.forticia.uk/research/quant): How quantitative research is tested at Forticia: hypotheses fixed before the data, blind out-of-sample validation, placebo controls and realistic costs. - [Computational Biology](https://www.forticia.uk/research/biology): Computational biology at Forticia: sequence, structure and folding studied in versioned, reproducible simulation environments. - [Cultural Intelligence](https://www.forticia.uk/research/culture): Cultural intelligence at Forticia: philosophy, governance and ethics, and how institutions reason, decide and stay accountable. - [AI Instrumentation](https://www.forticia.uk/research/ai): AI instrumentation at Forticia: multi-agent coordination, evaluation and guardrails that keep model-written changes reviewed, bounded and auditable. ## Infrastructure - [Workspaces](https://www.forticia.uk/infrastructure/workspaces): Isolated research workspaces at Forticia: each project gets its own perimeter, and capabilities attach on demand rather than by default. - [Helper Plane](https://www.forticia.uk/infrastructure/helper-plane): The helper plane at Forticia: scoped read and write contracts that keep applications off raw disk while research data stays inside its perimeter. - [Governed AI](https://www.forticia.uk/infrastructure/governed-ai): Governed AI at Forticia: models draft by default, a research lead approves any write, and every action is kept in a full audit trail. ## Papers - [Papers](https://www.forticia.uk/papers): Papers, notes and essays from Forticia Research Institute on research methods, evaluation, infrastructure and computational science. - [How many independent proteins are in a benchmark? Error correlation across sequence similarity and the cost to error bars](https://www.forticia.uk/papers/effective-number-of-independent-proteins-benchmark-error-bars): Model errors on related proteins are correlated even at the weakest significant hits. We measure it and what it does to benchmark confidence intervals. - [Where identical code gives different answers: a reproducibility budget for a protein-sequence pipeline](https://www.forticia.uk/papers/reproducibility-budget-protein-sequence-pipeline): One protein pipeline, 192 runs, one factor changed at a time: seeds dominate, thread and BLAS noise is invisible, and one library release flips a verdict. - [Canaries in the approval queue: what injected known-bad requests buy a fatigued human reviewer](https://www.forticia.uk/papers/canary-requests-approval-queue-human-oversight): In simulation, injected known-bad requests help a fatigued reviewer only above a spare-attention threshold, and recognisable canaries hide the failure. - [What an agent audit log can answer: measuring incident answerability across logging schemas](https://www.forticia.uk/papers/audit-trail-answerability-agent-approvals): Simulated approval incidents and a hash-chained log show which fields answer which questions, what defaults cost, and how anchoring sets tamper detection. - [Gate stacks are not products: measuring the rubber-stamp risk of a research pipeline](https://www.forticia.uk/papers/gate-stack-rubber-stamp-risk): In a simulated research pipeline, correlated gates protect up to 18 times less than their pass rates imply, and a one-draw placebo is a coin flip. - [When a failure record lies: the economics of shared negative results in a research swarm](https://www.forticia.uk/papers/graveyard-economics-shared-negative-results): In a simulated swarm, sharing falsified ideas saves a third of compute, but neighbourhood rules close off real effects unless records carry their test power. - [Never Tune a Corpse](https://www.forticia.uk/papers/exhumation-policies-rejected-ideas): When may a rejected idea be reopened? Simulated burial and exhumation rules, their false discovery cost, and how the graveyard can audit the court. - [When Approval Stops Carrying Information](https://www.forticia.uk/papers/rubber-stamp-gate-informativeness): A conditional-information measure of rubber-stamping, the defect rate where review rationally collapses, and which levers restore it. A simulation study. ## PolarisLink documentation - [PolarisLink](https://www.forticia.uk/polarislink): PolarisLink is the open protocol from Forticia Research Institute for governed multi-agent coordination, telemetry and provenance. Apache-2.0, C++20 and Python. - [PolarisLink Protocol Specification](https://www.forticia.uk/polarislink/specification): Public edition of the PolarisLink protocol specification: REST routes, event stream, scoped keys, coordination plane and provenance rules. Apache-2.0. - [PolarisLink Quickstart for Python and C++](https://www.forticia.uk/polarislink/quickstart): Install the PolarisLink Python or C++20 client, authenticate with a scoped key and make a first call: telemetry, runs, issues and the event stream. - [PolarisLink Python and C++20 Clients](https://www.forticia.uk/polarislink/clients): The PolarisLink reference clients: a dependency-free Python package with a command line, and a single-header C++20 library. Apache-2.0. - [PolarisLink Changelog and Release History](https://www.forticia.uk/polarislink/changelog): Release history of the PolarisLink protocol from 1.0.0 to 2.6.1: new routes, security fixes and compatibility notes, with dates. ## Open source - [PolarisLink on GitHub](https://github.com/Forticia/polarislink): Open protocol specification, C++20 header and Python client, Apache-2.0. - [Forticia on GitHub](https://github.com/Forticia): Public repositories published by Forticia Research Institute. ## Status and legal - [Status](https://www.forticia.uk/status): Live service status for the Forticia Research Institute website, API and public endpoints. - [Privacy](https://www.forticia.uk/privacy): How Forticia Research Institute handles information submitted through forticia.uk, including research access applications. - [Terms](https://www.forticia.uk/terms): Terms governing use of the Forticia Research Institute website and any research workspace access granted.