Author
Roy Manzi
Founder
Founder of Manzia AI. Researches agent trust frameworks and the operational gaps between agent design and deployment.
Writing by Roy Manzi
2026
- · Design
The Year We Taught a Machine to Tutor
A team built an ambitious AI tutor, watched it slowly degrade under its own safeguards, paused the pilot, and rebuilt it twice — the stubbornly simple rebuild won, decisively.
- · Frameworks
The Agent Trust Framework — an overview
A horizontal architecture for buyers, users, builders, vendors, and regulators of AI agents. Three layered frameworks — ATLAS, SAFE-A, TRACE — each descended from a different lineage of trust primitives.
- · Frameworks
ATLAS — buyer-facing verification for AI agents
ATLAS is the buyer- and user-facing layer of the Agent Trust Framework. It answers a single question: how does someone who didn't build this agent decide whether to trust it?