Document AI in Banking and Tax: The Time-Savings Math Before You Buy
Nov 4, 2026 · @Brian Curry A working model for bank and tax operations leaders who need to know how many hours document AI will actually return before they…
Kansas City · AI, Causal Inference & Forecasting
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Independent AI and machine-learning research that turns rigorous math into decisions businesses can act on.
About Vector 1
Research That Holds Up in Production
Vector 1 is a Kansas City research and advisory practice led by Brian Curry. We build causal models, forecasts and simulations that explain why things happen, not just what happened. Every method we use is published, tested and open to scrutiny.
What We Do
Causal Inference & Marketing Mix
Measure what actually drives revenue, not what merely correlates with it. Bayesian MMM, uplift and causal discovery.
Forecasting & Simulation
Monte Carlo and causal simulation for demand, energy, capacity and risk, with honest backtests.
AI Strategy & Economics
Where AI pays off first, what it really costs, and how to deploy it without the hype.
AI Agentic Solutions
Agents that plan, act and check their own work: tool use, memory and evaluation, built to hold up in production.
Healthcare Analytics
Early-warning models for sepsis, deterioration and stroke, plus ED and hospital capacity forecasting.
Energy & Grid Economics
Large-load tariffs, flexible demand and distributed compute: the math of powering AI.
Open-Source Tools
PyCausalSim and Papilon: the causal simulation and modeling libraries behind our research, free to use.
Latest Research
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Why Most Readmission Models Never Reduce Readmissions
A readmission prediction model can validate beautifully and still prevent almost nothing. One equation shows where the readmissions you hoped to avoid actually…
SEO, AEO and GEO Are Three Different Jobs: What Each Optimizes and How to Measure It
For CMOs and SEO leads who now get asked about AI search every week: what SEO, answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization each win, and the…
Agentic AI Is Just Another Abstraction Layer: What Data Scientists Should Offboard, and What They Can’t
The same coding agent gives a data scientist back anywhere from minus 3.5 to plus 11.5 hours a week. The difference is the person directing it. Every…
What Should Evergy Pay a Homeowner to Host an AI Node?
Start the bill credit at about $112 a month, half the peak capacity each node keeps off the grid. Then put noise, heat and service in writing. A reader of my…
What Evergy’s Large-Load Tariff Means for Your Electric Bill
Data centers on Evergy’s system now pay a premium rate, sign contracts of up to 17 years and post two years of collateral. The first measurable effect on a…
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