Stateful Swarms are 2x more Effective at 39x lower Cost (Code/Experiment Data Included)

Hey Reddit. I'm Devansh, from Irys. Through our work, we've observed that Agents have 2 main issues: 1. They're very expensive to run. 2. They can be very hard to trace and audit (so you don't know how they come up with the answers they do). We're open sourcing a paradigm to solve these problems called "Stateful Swarms,". Simply put: instead of AI agents repeatedly rereading documents and losing information, Stateful Swarms use a structured blackboard to maintain persistent, auditable memory. Specialized agents perform specific tasks and store their results into this centralized, structured memory—meaning you pay once to read and understand your documents and then cheaply query and build upon that knowledge indefinitely. Here's how it performed: * On Harvey AI’s Legal Agent Benchmark, we hit an 83.74% criteria pass rate and a 17.75% strict all-pass rate at just $1.30 per task. The current state of the art is Harvey’s published at 10.4% at $50.90 per task, so swarms are both better and cheaper. * We generalized beyond legal, analyzing Datadog's 10-K filings to produce a comprehensive investment memo, while Claude Code's Opus agents couldn't handle the context load and failed. Because we're committed to open science, we've open-sourced everything—the code, experimental setups, data, and full reasoning traces—under an MIT license. This lets you validate our claims directly, improve the approach, or adapt it for your own applications. We strongly believe the future is about AI systems that don't forget as they learn. If this resonates with you, come collaborate or build upon what we've started. Let's advance stateful, intelligent systems together. Whitepaper on the thesis here: [https://github.com/dl1683/ant-irys/blob/master/whitepaper.pdf](https://github.com/dl1683/ant-irys/blob/master/whitepaper.pdf) **Repo:** [https://github.com/dl1683/ant-irys](https://github.com/dl1683/ant-irys) A primer to the thesis here: [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stateful-swarms-make-ai-agents-cheaper-safer-better-devansh-devansh-8enxe](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stateful-swarms-make-ai-agents-cheaper-safer-better-devansh-devansh-8enxe)