[ FRONTLATCH RESEARCH LAB ]

Systems essays on AI, physical scarcity, biology, and creative worlds.

Frontlatch builds infrastructure connecting AI agents to the physical economy. The Lab is where we explore what happens next: when intelligence, robotics, and biology route around old human bottlenecks.

• [ ISSUE 01 // THE ACTION LAYER ]

  The Action Layer: What 79,000 Website Scans Showed Us About AEO vs. Agent Tools

  Answer engine optimization gets your site quoted by AI. It does not get a job booked. We scored about 79,000 business websites to see what an AI can actually do on them, and what changes when it calls a tool instead of reading a page.

  6 minute read1 November 2026

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• [ ISSUE 02 // AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS ]

  The Sovereign Calorie: Why Isn't Basic Food an Autonomous Public Utility?

  Cost-of-living talk and vague AI abundance talk both skip the engineering. A systems essay on treating public land as one data grid worked by solar machines, with a 100-plot simulation you can run.

  5 minute read1 November 2026

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