PerspectiveResearch
that becomes
companies.
Perspective is an applied research company and venture lab turning philosophy, behavioural intelligence, trust, and systems thinking into practical products and companies. The same shape can be a 6 or a 9. It depends on where you stand. We study those moments, where vantage shapes meaning and better systems can be built.
- Domains
- Intent · Trust · Agency
- Method
- Theory → System → Product
- Outputs
- Papers · Frameworks · Companies
- Stance
- Position shapes meaning
Most software knows what you did.
None of it knows what you meant.
Between action and intent lies a quiet failure. Trust frays. Products misread the people using them. Agents act without understanding why. People get flattened into personas. Perspective works in that gap, the space where intent, trust, and agency actually live.
Three questions, one research programme.
Plain language for the work underneath. The full theory lives in the papers.
Intent
Why someone is doing what they are doing. Action without intent is noise. We study what people mean, not just what they do.
Trust
The evidence one party has that another will follow through. Trust is not a rating; it is a graph of context and proof. We build systems that treat it that way.
Agency
Acting on behalf of someone, faithfully. As software starts to act for us, we study what it takes for an agent to represent a person, or an organisation, without distorting them.
Our identity, 6/\9, captures that philosophy. From one angle it is a 6. From another it is a 9. At the centre, the mirror reflects multiple directions. Meaning is shaped by position, context, and interpretation.
Our palette of black, white, and grey represents the spectrum between certainty and ambiguity. Some things appear absolute. Some things sit in between. The most valuable ideas often emerge from that middle ground, where complexity is not ignored but studied, understood, and transformed into useful systems.
Perspective researches intent, trust, and agency, along with the contexts in which they shift. We turn deep theoretical work into practical products, frameworks, and companies, each built from a research foundation rather than ordinary market assumptions.
Meaning is shaped by position, context, and interpretation.
Companies born from research.
Mirror(formerly Sonaqor)
Active · Identity & behavioural intelligenceA system for understanding people across contexts. Mirror treats identity as plural, situational, and observable rather than fixed.
Visit
Writing.
Papers and working notes that become the foundation for the products we ship. Read for the arguments. Cite for the frameworks. Write to us to build on them.
- TGN2025
Trust Graph Networks
A framework reframing trust as portable evidence in digital commerce, moving beyond static ratings toward graphs of verifiable, contextual signals.
TrustCommerceGraphsRead paperWorking paperMedium · Part I - APNP2025
A Person Is Not a Persona
A challenge to static identity models. People are plural, situational, and shaped by context, and the systems we build for them should be too.
IdentityBehavioural intelligenceSystemsRead paperWorking paperMedium · Part I