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Whitepapers, technical blog posts, and collaborative research from the Tiresias team. We believe in building in public and sharing what we learn.

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Whitepaper2026-02-0118 min read

Introducing the T-Score: A Psychographic Primitive for Cross-Domain Prediction

Our foundational whitepaper detailing how the T-score compresses psychographic trait vectors into a universal preference signature - and why it outperforms collaborative filtering by 41% with zero user data.

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Blog2026-01-1510 min read

Zero-Data Recommendations: How Psychometrics Eliminates the Cold Start Problem

A technical deep-dive into our approach to the cold-start problem. We show that psychographic trait inference from minimal digital telemetry yields preference predictions that rival systems trained on months of behavioral data.

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Whitepaper2025-12-1014 min read

From Film to Finance: Cross-Domain Transfer via Psychographic Vectors

Early results on using the T-score to predict preferences across entirely unrelated domains - from media consumption to savings behavior and ad response affinity.

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Blog2025-11-207 min read

Why Psychometrics Will Replace Cookies

An opinion piece on the structural fragility of behavioral data pipelines and why a psychographic-first approach is both more ethical and more predictive than the status quo.

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