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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



Status Submitted
Workspace Cloud Pak for Data
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 30, 2026

Fabrication Of Reality (Eternal Labs And Research)

Title: Eternal Research Lab — Persistent Multi-Agent Research Units with Human-Gated Test Management for watsonx Orchestrate

Enterprises lose research. Hypotheses live in chat threads, experiments die in notebooks, and nobody remembers what was tried or falsified. AI assistants give one-off answers, but there is no persistent, cumulative research memory that keeps working between sessions.

This idea adds persistent multi-agent research units to watsonx Orchestrate: a Hypothesis Agent that proposes falsifiable claims, an Experiment Agent that runs tests against enterprise data, and a Critic Agent that challenges weak evidence. Every claim carries a status of untested, supported, or contradicted, and every experiment links back to the hypothesis it tested, building a living ledger of what the organization knows and how it knows it.

The human is the lab director. No experiment touching production data, customer records, or external systems runs without explicit human approval, and the human holds kill authority over every agent and every claim at all times.

This turns AI research assistance from one-off answers into cumulative science. All claims are evidence-graded, nothing is presented as fact without supporting evidence, and the lab never auto-publishes a conclusion the human has not reviewed.

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)