Status Mentis
Status Mentis
AI Implementation for Pharma Insights Teams

Where generation outruns validation.

Writing on AI verification and agent autonomy — from a production mobile app run partly by unattended AI agents, to what the same failure modes mean for pharma insights and market research. A short series, posted as each piece is ready.

01

The $440,000 Sentence Nobody Read

AI drafting has outrun review capacity everywhere — pharma research and production software both. Last year that gap cost Deloitte a $440,000 refund.

Aug 1, 2026
02

I built the check on my own system first

Two weeks running AI agents with real autonomy on a live production app. Three rules that made it survivable — and why none of them is "trust the AI more."

Coming soon
03

Three ways an AI-drafted insight is wrong

And why "it cites its sources" catches none of them. A veteran's-eye view of what breaks first in market research.

Coming soon
04

The EU AI Act Just Made AI Disclosure Mandatory. It Says Nothing About Whether the AI Was Right.

The obvious objection — "our AI already cites its sources" — and why it's wrong, plus what the EU AI Act's Article 50 disclosure rule actually requires (and doesn't).

Aug 3, 2026
05

Prove me wrong in an afternoon

An open invitation: run the check against a study you already know the answers to. Designed so it can visibly fail.

Coming soon