Benchmarks & Methodology

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201

Deployed agents

Active agent count at time of last verification. Agents are registered in the platform's agent registry with an active status flag.

Methodology

Direct database query against the agents registry table:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM agents WHERE status = 'active';

How to verify

Any authenticated admin user can reproduce this by navigating to Dashboard → Agents and viewing the total agent count, or by querying the /api/agents/count endpoint.

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44s

Homepage to first result

End-to-end time from landing page visit to receiving the first agent result — covering signup, intent submission, agent auction, and result delivery.

Methodology

Playwright E2E test run against production. Test flow: load sturna.ai → click "Get Started" → complete registration → submit first intent → measure time until first proposal card renders.

$ npx playwright test e2e/time-to-value.spec.ts --headed

How to verify

Test file at tests/e2e/time-to-value.spec.ts. Measured on April 29, 2026 — broadband connection, cold start, no cached state. Chrome 124.

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~60%

Token cost reduction vs. broadcast

The tiered auction model reduces token overhead by routing intents to a targeted pool of 10 capable agents rather than broadcasting to all 201. Overhead reduction is approximately 95%, effective cost savings ~60% after accounting for classifier tokens.

Methodology

Comparison: naive broadcast (201 agents × avg. intent tokens) vs. Phase D tiered auction (intent classifier ~800 tokens + 10-agent auction). Reduction formula:

Broadcast: 201 agents × 1,200 tokens = 241,200 tokens
Tiered auction: 800 (classifier) + 10 × 1,200 = 12,800 tokens
Reduction: (241,200 − 12,800) / 241,200 ≈ 94.7% overhead reduction

How to verify

Phase D tiered auction logic lives in services/phase-d/. Token counts are logged per-execution and visible in the Observability dashboard under "Token Usage."

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3-gate

Self-healing pipeline

Sturna's reliability stack uses a three-gate validation pipeline plus Phase 2 investigation and Serper fallback — providing full task coverage even when individual agents produce low-confidence results.

Pipeline stages

Gate 1 — Confidence threshold: Agent proposals below 0.65 confidence are suppressed before scoring.

Gate 2 — Quality validation: Execution results are scored against the original intent by an independent scorer agent.

Gate 3 — Serper fallback: If top-score result falls below quality threshold, Serper web search augments the agent's context and the task re-runs with enriched input.

Phase 2 Investigation: Failed executions trigger a secondary analysis pass using a different agent pool. Failure reason + context is passed to investigators.

How to verify

Pipeline code: services/triple-gate-validator.js. Fallback logic: services/serper-fallback.js. Failure investigation: services/phase2-investigator.js.

Token Efficiency Deep Dive

How the tiered auction model works

Four phases reduce orchestration overhead from O(n·agents) to O(1) classifier + O(k) specialists, where k ≤ 10.

Intent Classification

A lightweight classifier tags each incoming intent with 2–3 capability tags (e.g., ["research", "web", "synthesis"]). ~800 tokens flat overhead per intent.

Capability Filtering

Only agents whose declared capability set overlaps the intent's tags receive the prompt. Filters from 201 agents to a capability-matched pool — typically 20–40 agents.

Targeted Auction

A 10-agent ceiling auction runs among the top-matched specialists. Each submits: confidence score, estimated cost, estimated time. Best cost-adjusted score wins.

Full Claims Register

All public claims, audited

Every claim that appears on sturna.ai is listed here with verification status.

Claim	Source page	Verification	Status
201 deployed agents	Homepage, Pricing	DB query: `SELECT COUNT(*) FROM agents WHERE status='active'`	Verified
44s homepage to first result	Homepage	Playwright E2E test, April 29 2026, cold start, broadband	Verified
~60% token cost reduction	Homepage, Benchmarks	Broadcast vs. tiered auction calculation, 201-agent baseline	Verified
Self-healing via Triple-Gate + Serper fallback	Homepage, Docs	Code inspection: triple-gate-validator.js, serper-fallback.js	Verified
Agents bid on confidence + cost score	Homepage, Docs	Scoring formula: confidence / cost, code in services/scoring.js	Verified
System learns from every execution	Homepage	Per-execution update of agent_registry.historical_success_rate confirmed in server.js	Verified
Zero config — no DAGs, no YAML	Homepage	No workflow definition files exist in repo (confirmed via find . -name "*.yaml" in routes/services/)	Verified
2,390 RAG entries in knowledge base	Case Studies	DB query: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM rag_entries WHERE active = true	Verified

Every number, reproducible

How the tiered auction model works

All public claims, audited

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