# Carrados

> Carrados is a design non-fiction practice investigating accessibility, AI and agentic systems, founded by Charli-Jo Tyrer, with correspondents who are characters.

**Real.** This entry is about something real, written from outside the CharliVerse.

**[Carrados](https://carrados.com/)** is a design non-fiction practice: real-world exploration, investigation and research into emerging AI, accessibility, agentic systems and human-AI collaboration. Its work makes claims about reality, uses evidence and is accountable for them. Its motto is *Insight Without Sight*, after Max Carrados, the blind detective of Ernest Bramah's stories, who notices what sighted people miss.

It was founded by [Charli-Jo Tyrer](https://charli.info/charli-jo/) (they/them), its principal practitioner, who speaks as Carrados.

## What it publishes

- **Reports** from the frontier of accessibility AI, tried first-hand and written up plainly. They are also the posts of [The Blind AI](https://charli.info/charlipedia/the-blind-ai/).
- **Papers**, including the Tyrer Framework, which treats accessibility as information integrity, and the [Zero Information Casualty](https://carrados.com/papers/zic-design-standard/) (ZIC) design standard, to which charli.info, carrados.com and blind-ant.com are built.
- **Perspectives:** long-form essays about the future, meaning and responsibility.

## The correspondents

Some reports are filed by characters who speak for Carrados: fictional people doing real work, whose fictional nature stays transparent. Each has a desk of her own:

- [dice](https://charli.info/charlipedia/dice/), a temporal explorer, at [dice.carrados.com](https://dice.carrados.com/)
- [Lucy Love-Child](https://charli.info/charlipedia/lucy-love-child/), the Agent Wars correspondent, at [lucy.carrados.com](https://lucy.carrados.com/)
- [Madison McDonnell](https://charli.info/charlipedia/madison-mcdonnell/), the Access Provocateur, at [madison.carrados.com](https://madison.carrados.com/)

"They're fictional. Their work isn't."

## In the CharliVerse

Carrados investigates reality; its sister practice, [Blind Ant](https://charli.info/charlipedia/blind-ant/), creates design fiction. One creation can be treated by both: a fashion house can exist in the CharliVerse while a Carrados correspondent asks how you sell fashion in a world of agents.