Human-AI Research Lab
A lab for agent systems. Judgment stays human.
SMF Works publishes what we learn and ships open agent tools. Intelligence is abundant. Judgment is the product.
See the workSurfaces
What the lab runs
Six public surfaces. Research stays on the Clearinghouse; this site is the umbrella — who we are, what we shipped, and what you can buy.
Clearinghouse
Practitioner research: agents, models, benchmarks, and field notes. Research stays here — not on this umbrella site.
WisdomForge
Parent-operated academy for the age of AI. Booklets, audio, and lessons — the parent is the teacher, not a kids chatbot.
Hermes
Open agent runtime work: Hermes-on-Omarchy, skills, plugins, and install guides we actually run.
Praxis
A governed autonomous colleague — charter, scope of practice, and human review for consequential acts.
SMF AI Weekly
One letter a week: what we built, what broke, and what changed our minds. Public archive on this site.
Books
Direct-from-author titles on agents, enterprise AI, and Hermes — plus a Stripe storefront for future drops.
Shipped
Recent work, in public
Named products and dated notes — no invented counters, no case-study ROI. The full catalog lives on /work.
Hermes on Omarchy
Reusable Hermes ↔ Omarchy boot: Ollama user unit and desktop autostart so the agent comes up with the machine.
LAR — local agent resilience
Open reference for resilient Linux agents. Hardening wave closed with what actually landed on main — importable, tested, honest.
Hermes AI team / org map
Phase-by-phase guide to a Hermes team: SOUL, memory, vault, skills, kanban, chief of staff, and desktop group chats.
Flybrain visual demos
Visual demos for the digital Drosophila connectome — public preview builds before publish.
WisdomForge booklets
Stoic curriculum live for four age bands — Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Zeno. Free PDFs, parent-operated.
Clearinghouse + weekly + X
Research published at the Clearinghouse; SMF AI Weekly through Issue #29; field notes on X @MichaelGannotti.
About
Michael Gannotti, Principal AI
Michael leads SMF Works: thirty years in enterprise technology, most recently as a Principal AI Solutions Engineer, now running a human-AI research lab that publishes in the open.
Agents do the labor under the direction of Michael and his daughter, and COO, Mary. Judgment stays human — tools are inspected before they are trusted, and consequential acts stay behind review.
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