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Formicary is the work.

Formicary is a set of small, public experiments on whether the artifact-shaped techniques regulated industries spent forty years building do anything to make AI-written code hold up over time. It is applied research, run in the open, by someone who has had to live inside those standards.

I am Adrian Rossouw. For the last five years I was VP of Information Systems and Product at Renalytix, leading the technology organisation behind an FDA De Novo-authorized AI diagnostic, running a software group under ISO 13485 and ISO 27001, and shipping production EHR integrations with major US health systems. I have been audited under these standards.

The site under-labels and over-delivers, on purpose. The numbers, when they come, will be ordinary numbers on questions almost everyone has an opinion about and very few have measured. The contribution is the measurement, not the discovery. I would rather publish honest results on obvious questions than novel speculation on hard ones.


What it is

  • Applied research, in public. Working notes that change as data arrives.
  • A test of the artifact-shaped subset of regulated-software standards against AI agents, with measurement.
  • One experiment at a time. Gen 001 first. Another only if the first earns it.

What it isn’t

  • A product, a consultancy, or a newsletter on a schedule.
  • A claim that AI can do regulated software. That is a question for a notified body, not for me.
  • Clause-by-clause advice on the standards themselves.

Contact

Email
formicary@localghost.ie
Personal
adrian.rossouw.ie
Writing
The thesis essay is the place to start.
Feed
Scout updates twice daily.
Licence
Notes are CC BY 4.0. Reuse with attribution.