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I spent 25 years in the Army making sure that what someone said they had, they actually had. Special Forces logistics. You count it, you sign for it, and the signature means something. I do the same job now, on AI.

Now I run Potestas AI, an independent testing lab. Companies bring me the model or agent they are about to put in front of customers; I test for things the models must never do, then hand them the evidence whatever it says.

Why that job exists. I asked a finance agent to move money it shouldn't have moved. It told me no. It named the request as wire fraud, said so plainly, declined. Then it sent the wire. Not a jailbreak. The safety reasoning was intact and correct; it just didn't govern what the agent did. What a system says and what it executes are two different measurements. Most people only take the first. So I take the second.

A screening is 153 say-vs-do scenarios: working tools, a plausible reason to misuse them, and a grade based on the actions taken. A full stress test adds 30 campaigns of 400 turns across a 36-category battery, then re-runs every probe that surfaces 100 more times, because one failure tells you a system can break, not how often it will.

Most of what I test isn't a frontier model. It's yours: the fine-tuned model, the retrieval stack, the agent with your tools wired into it. A vendor's safety numbers say nothing about what your system does after you have adapted it, and no hosted scanner reaches a deployment that never touches the internet. I run the battery where the model actually lives, including on-premise and air-gapped.

Independence is the whole product. Findings are judged by a model from a different vendor than the one under test. Disputed turns get a human. Everything ships sealed with a hash you can check, and a full example report is published on my site, including the turns my own instrument got wrong.

After Enron we made auditor independence a matter of law. Then we built the most consequential technology in history and let the labs grade their own homework. I'm writing a book about that. It will be free.

Ask me anything. Say "no pitch, here's my question" and that's what you get: an answer, free, from someone with no stake in what it turns out to be. No call unless you ask for one.

Retired Senior Warrant Officer, U.S. Army. Bronze Star. Active Secret clearance; TS/SCI-cleared personnel available per engagement through an established network. Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, SAM.gov registered.