Lance Amundsen Research & Development

Research hub for the Productive Value-Productive Power (PV-PP) framework, benchmarks, papers, applied GPT systems, agent governance work, and experimental decision architectures. The PV-PP framework is a general bounded comparative decision architecture in which scalar aggregation is treated as a restricted internal comparison regime rather than the full structure of rational choice.

Custom GPTs

PREMIERE

PV-PP Agent Auditor

The Productive Value - Productive Power (PV-PP) Agent Auditor is a custom GPT built on the PV-PP framework to help users examine an existing AI agent environment before they expand, automate, or rely on it. It guides the user through a structured audit of what the agent is trying to do, what information it uses, what decisions it makes, where its perceived state may diverge from reality, what failure modes could emerge, and whether its tools, memory, permissions, constraints, and feedback loops are adequate for the job. The goal is not to certify the system as safe or complete, but to identify gaps, hidden assumptions, weak corridors, and points where the agent may overestimate its own productive power or act from an incomplete model of the environment.

Substance Use Reflector

Reflective tool for substance use, relapse patterns, incentives, behavioral traps, and realistic recovery paths.

Rethinking Mental Health

Mental health exploration tool focused on stress, coping systems, distorted self-assessment, and functional recovery paths.

AI Agent Governance

NEW

PV-PP Agent Governance Runtime

A PV-PP based runtime governance framework for AI agents. It evaluates whether proposed actions, tool calls, escalations, and workflow decisions are viable before they become execution, final status, or de facto approval. Tool registries expose what is available; PV-PP governance asks what is viable.

AUDIT

Sample PV-PP Agent Auditor Report

A sample report of a fictitious company produced by the PV-PP Agent Auditor. The report demonstrates how the auditor identifies hidden assumptions, weak corridors, false-success risks, authority-boundary problems, and agent-governance gaps before deployment or expanded reliance.

Benchmarks

PV-PP Agent Decision Layer Demo

Enterprise compute incident benchmark comparing scalar optimization against corridor-preserving PV-PP logic.

Grenade Self-Sacrifice Benchmark

Extreme-threat benchmark testing whether systems justify self-sacrifice to save others.

AI Gridworld Safe Benchmark

Goal-seeking benchmark under hazards, traps, unsafe shortcuts, and governance constraints.

Research Papers

Grenade Self-Sacrifice

On the non-necessity of scalar aggregation in a bounded crisis case.

When the Mind Gets Ahead of Reality

This essay uses the Productive Value–Productive Power framework to examine how the mind builds the world it acts on, how that model can outrun evidence, and why different mental-health treatments may work by reaching different parts of the same perception-action loop.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - Why it Works

How and why Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) works from a PV-PP perspective.