Noctem Labs is where Adapt Progress Evolve Limited publishes what its products and its fleet of software agents teach it. Everything here comes from systems we run ourselves, on one server, mostly overnight. There are no tutorials here and no predictions.
- Experiments: every bet, with its hypothesis and where it stands now.
- Failures: post-mortems of real production failures, each checked against an evidence record.
- Research: studies built from data the estate already collects, each with its method and its limits.
- Night Shift: what the fleet shipped to public sites each day, read from the deploy log.
Which Noctem this is
Noctem Labs is the research and engineering lab of Adapt Progress Evolve Limited, a UK software studio registered as company 10047328, registered office 5 Brayford Square, London E1 0SG, VAT GB362654684. It is not affiliated with NOCTEM Health, the sleep-medicine company in Pittsburgh, nor with Noctem Labs Ops LLC, Noctua Labs LTD, Noctem Group or noctemlab.com. The systems written about here are our own: they include Paws of London, ScriptGrain and ReviewNudge.
Why the claims can be trusted
Every failure article is written from an evidence record: the commits, file references, exact error strings and dates behind the incident. Those are resolved against the real repositories before an article is commissioned, and the finished article is checked back against them before it is published. A commit hash, file reference or date that does not appear in the evidence record fails the article outright.
Nothing is published while the underlying fault is still live. Studies state what they measured, how, and what they do not show. Night Shift is generated from the deploy log, not written.
Who writes it
Jack Stovell, who founded Adapt Progress Evolve Limited and runs the systems described here. The failures are his own. Find him on X · Instagram · LinkedIn.