Trust boundary diagnostics

Why capable offerings fail when buyer risk remains unresolved.

Pankai studies trust gaps across products, markets, organizations, and cultures.

Pankai 研究有能力的产品、服务、工具和公司,为什么会在文化、市场和组织边界上失去信任,以及这种信任如何被重新命名、解释、证明和建立。

Recent writing

Jun 2026
No. 001

"AI Chief of Staff" Is a Trust Claim, Not a Product Category

Before you evaluate AI coordination assistants, draw the trust boundary: what workflow is delegated, where approval stays, and how failure is recovered.

  • trust-gap
  • agent-adoption
  • failure-mode
  • diagnostic

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A diagnostic vocabulary for adoption risk: what is promised, what is delegated, where trust stops, and how failure is recovered.

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