# Research — TSL Intelligence Lab

We publish as the work develops: working notes first, then papers and open-source releases. Collaboration enquiries from universities, research groups and development partners are welcome.

## Agentic-first architecture

What changes in an enterprise architecture when agents are first-class actors: reference architectures, protocol layers such as MCP and A2A, data strategy as agent strategy, and model selection as an architectural decision.

Questions we are working on:

- Which parts of a reference architecture change when agents, not only people, call the systems?
- Where do protocol layers such as MCP and A2A belong, and what do they replace?
- How should an estate be designed so that it can absorb agents without another rewrite?

Published:

- [Agentic-First Architecture](https://tambalamin.substack.com) — Substack

## AI-led software delivery and DevSecOps

How a delivery team runs with agentic coding tools: the rules, hooks, commands and purpose-built agents, and the review gates and evidence trail an enterprise will accept.

Questions we are working on:

- What guardrails let an enterprise accept code that agents wrote?
- What evidence trail does a security or quality function need, and how is it produced as a side effect of the work?
- What changes for architects, reviewers and engineering managers when agents carry part of the delivery?

## Digital public goods for education in West Africa

Open, adoptable platforms for education and civic data in low-bandwidth, low-budget settings, drawing on the Sierra Leone Learning Passport and the Sierra Leone Open Election Data Platform.

Questions we are working on:

- What makes an education platform adoptable by a ministry or university that cannot pay recurring licence fees?
- How should open platforms be designed for intermittent connectivity and mobile-first users?
- What does it take for a national system to meet the Digital Public Goods Standard and stay maintained?

Published:

- [Public ICT Resource Centers for Students and Teachers in West Africa](https://www.ictworks.org/public-ict-resource-centers-students-and-teachers-west-africa/) — ICTworks, 2010
- [Setting the Record Straight About Agora's Blockchain Elections](https://medium.com/@tlamin/setting-the-record-straight-about-agoras-blockchain-elections-misleading-headlines-on-the-internet-afcf20c7a3b7) — Medium, 2018

## Earlier research

### Machine learning for health data

Research co-authored at Pace University, Seidenberg School, in 2015 and 2016 on big-data analytics for telemedicine, ensemble models in histological examination, and a multivariate biomarker for Parkinson's disease. Published as arXiv preprints.

- [Transforming Telemedicine Through Big Data Analytics](https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06967) — arXiv preprint, co-authored at Pace University, Seidenberg School, 2015
- [Using Ensemble Models in the Histological Examination of Tissue Abnormalities](https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03932) — arXiv preprint, co-authored at Pace University, Seidenberg School, 2015
- [A Multivariate Biomarker for Parkinson's Disease](https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07264) — arXiv preprint, co-authored at Pace University, Seidenberg School, 2016
- [Google Scholar profile](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rMgqsqcAAAAJ) — Four research articles co-authored at Pace University (2014–2015); 13 citations as at September 2026

## Collaborate

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