Pieces filed under Field Reports in the Black Box Notes archive.https://blackboxnotes.com/en-ushttps://blackboxnotes.com/articles/10-the-compliance-edge-ai-marketing-needs-audit-layers/https://blackboxnotes.com/articles/10-the-compliance-edge-ai-marketing-needs-audit-layers/AI marketing was, until recently, an unregulated category. The shift to agentic marketing pipelines — automated outreach, automated segmentation, automated content — is putting it inside regulatory perimeters it has never had to think about. A note on why marketing stacks now need the same audit primitives as the regulated-industry deployments.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTField ReportsmarketingcomplianceauditTomás Esquivelhttps://blackboxnotes.com/articles/05-inside-an-agentic-audit-a-hypothetical-walkthrough/https://blackboxnotes.com/articles/05-inside-an-agentic-audit-a-hypothetical-walkthrough/A composite scenario, drawn from the patterns of real audit engagements. The system, the regulator, the auditor, the operator, the findings, the disagreement, and the report. Notes on what goes wrong when a real audit meets a stack that was not built to be read.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTField ReportsauditscenarioprocessTomás Esquivelhttps://blackboxnotes.com/articles/04-the-interpretability-stack-a-practitioners-toolkit/https://blackboxnotes.com/articles/04-the-interpretability-stack-a-practitioners-toolkit/What an interpretability practice actually consists of in 2026, layer by layer. A working toolkit, with notes on which layers are mature, which are research-grade, and which are still mostly marketing.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTField ReportsinterpretabilitytoolkitpractitionerTomás Esquivelhttps://blackboxnotes.com/articles/03-ten-operators-building-auditable-ai-systems/https://blackboxnotes.com/articles/03-ten-operators-building-auditable-ai-systems/A reluctant listicle. We do not normally publish them. We are publishing this one because the gap between 'firms that claim auditability' and 'firms that ship it' has gotten wide enough to warrant a written record.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTField ReportsoperatorsauditregisterBlack Box Notes Editorial