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Cross-Domain Research Governance: A 12-Month Integrated Research Plan for Capital, Operational, and Physical AI Systems

Orchestrating four parallel research streams across capital decision engines, operational agentic companies, robot judgment systems, and holding integration under unified gate governance

Research programs that operate in isolation produce findings that cannot be integrated. Capital decision engines optimized without operational context misallocate resources. Operational agentic companies designed without capital awareness cannot sustain themselves. Robot judgment systems built without holding-level governance create liability gaps. This paper presents a 12-month cross-domain research plan for an Autonomous Industrial Holding that integrates four parallel streams — Capital Decision Engine (Stream A), Operational Agentic Company (Stream B), Robot Judgment OS (Stream C), and Holding Integration (Stream D) — under unified research gate governance. We formalize stream dependency graphs, derive milestone probability models using PERT/CPM analysis, introduce cross-stream conflict detection metrics, model research velocity and throughput, express gate passage probability as a function of research maturity, and quantify integration risk propagation across streams. The plan covers 20 research themes (4 streams x 5 themes each) with detailed experiment designs, statistical methodology, and KPI specifications. Research gates RG0-RG3 govern all outputs with fail-closed semantics. The central thesis: cross-domain research governance is not project management — it is a decision architecture problem that requires the same structural rigor as the systems it studies.