Projects in NormanProjects in NormanResearch OS — Evidence-Driven AI Research Workflow
The problem
AI makes research dramatically faster, but speed creates new problems: duplicated work, unclear authority, unsupported conclusions, model drift, expensive context reconstruction, and findings that become detached from their evidence.
What I built
Research OS is a structured AI-assisted research workflow designed to move from question to evidence to decision while preserving state and provenance.
The system combines:
exploratory research
model routing
structured evidence capture
machine-readable state
staged escalation
independent review where useful
durable research artifacts
explicit closeout and recovery
Local models are used where they are sufficient, with more capable systems deliberately introduced when the task justifies them.
Result
The workflow has been applied across software architecture, technical research, security research, market analysis, and other long-running investigations.
Its purpose is not to automate judgment away. It is to make research easier to resume, inspect, challenge, and reuse. 
