AI Research Laboratory

See how AI automation holds upbefore you bet on it.

Case studies and technical write-ups from automation that ran inside real businesses. What worked, what broke, and how it got fixed.

Written from live production systemsOpen to read, no sign-upAuthored by the people who build them

What is AI Lab

The demo always works. We write about what happens next.

It is easy to find AI that works in a demo. It is harder to learn how it behaves in week six, with real orders, real exceptions, and a team that needs it to simply run. AI Lab is Mantiq's research space for that gap. We take automation into real businesses, watch how it holds up, and publish what we find.

Run by Mantiq. See how we handle that on the About page.

What we study

Four places where automation has to survive a real Monday.

  1. 01

    Logistics

    A delivery slot moves at 4 p.m. and three schedules shift with it.

    We look at how automation copes when the plan stops being the plan.

  2. 02

    Retail

    The system says 12 in stock, the shelf shows 3, and a customer is waiting for a reply.

    We look at what happens when AI handles that gap.

  3. 03

    Finance

    Month-end, a mismatch in the report, and no one sure which number is right.

    We look at where automation helps and where it needs a person.

  4. 04

    Operations

    A workflow that lives in one person's head, and that person is on leave.

    We look at what it takes to make it run without them.

Inside the Journal

Two ways to read, depending on what you need to decide.

Case studies

Follow one project from the first problem to the last fix. See what we built, what broke, and what changed, then judge whether it fits your situation.

Technical write-ups

See how one system is put together and why. The choices, the trade-offs, and the parts we would do differently.

How we write

Three rules for everything we publish.

  1. Real systems only

    Everything here comes from automation that ran, or tried to run, in a real business. No mock-ups, no "imagine if".

  2. Failures included

    If something broke, we say what and why, so you do not have to find out the hard way.

  3. Plain language

    Written so the person who signs off and the person who builds can read the same page.

Read one before you decide anything.

Pick any entry. No sign-up, nothing to buy.

Read the Journal