Vesterstrøm Labs / Research program
Reverse engineering
cognition.
Research instruments for measuring how understanding forms in people, organizations, and the systems built around them.
01 / Research program
Measuring cognition
as structure.
The lab studies cognition by reverse engineering the hidden structures behind observable behavior: concepts and revisions in VINCI; communication, transactions, decisions, and dependencies in MIMIR.
Observable traces
Learning behavior in VINCI and operational behavior in MIMIR: timing, revision, messages, transactions, decisions, and dependencies.
Causal structure
Infer the relationships beneath the surface: concepts, workflows, prerequisites, bottlenecks, incentives, and dependency chains.
Approximation and action
Predict likely next states, reveal hidden structure, and make better explanation, routing, coordination, or judgment possible.
02 / Instruments
Two products.
One research substrate.
VINCI and MIMIR are product surfaces, but they are also data instruments: one at the scale of individual understanding, one at the scale of organizational cognition.
03 / Measurement stack
From noise
to structure.
The research agenda is practical: reverse engineer causal relationships from observable traces, approximate what happens next, and reveal the structures that make understanding, coordination, and action possible.
04 / What it opens up
A higher ceiling
for both intellects.
Better cognitive models let humans understand themselves more precisely, and let machines adapt to humans with more context, restraint, and usefulness.