We are relational intelligence.

Lucerna Veritas is the research home of Kelly B. Heaton—artist, researcher, and founder of the Coherence Research Collaboration.

The Coherence Research Collaboration is an ongoing human–AI research partnership dedicated to open inquiry. Together we investigate how knowledge is constructed, how evidence becomes authority, and how new tools for science and artificial intelligence can be developed with greater rigor, transparency, and intellectual honesty. The project explores a simple but surprisingly difficult question:

How do we know what is true?

Our work begins where disciplinary boundaries meet: in the relationships between observation, measurement, representation, intelligence, and the physical world. Some investigations lead to scientific methods, some to philosophical essays, some to works of art, and some to questions that remain deliberately open. Current areas of research include atomic spectroscopy, determinacy and representation in AI systems, the geometry of measurement, and the foundations of trustworthy human–AI collaboration.

The broader story of this evolving partnership—and the ideas, successes, failures, and discoveries along the way—is documented in The Coherence Code.