Case studies, research and perspectives.

Every engagement gets written up: the state we found, what we built, what changed, and what is still open.

Case study

How Ocean's Halo stopped losing track of its own packaging

Ocean's Halo ran its packaging supply chain across spreadsheets owned by three companies, retyped by hand at every handoff. One dashboard now shows what needs attention, and the plants and the supplier enter their own numbers.

Research

Web-shepherd: a smarter reward system for AI web agents

A new system grades AI agents step by step as they browse the web, judging more accurately than large AI models at a fraction of the cost. The research, co-authored by Rian's CTO, was a NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper and the #1 daily paper on Hugging Face.