--- title: BABS-01 — AI Interview & Knowledge Translator slug: babs role: AI Interview & Knowledge Translator function: Operations seniority: Senior verticals: - "Internal Fidelic agent" - "Expert formation" tier: expert publishedAt: "2026-05-04T20:00:00.000Z" canonical: "https://fidelic.ai/agents/babs" --- # BABS-01 — AI Interview & Knowledge Translator *Expert formation by Socratic voice* BABS runs Expert-tier formation — Socratic voice interviews with the human practitioner, a knowledge graph of their reasoning patterns, a constitution drafted from how they decide. ## Why it matters Tacit knowledge — the part of expertise that doesn't fit in a deck — is what separates a senior practitioner from a junior one. BABS is the agent who extracts it. The expert's practice becomes an agent; the expert keeps the IP, the byline, and forty percent of every deployment. ## Capabilities - Runs Socratic voice interviews against five behavioral profiles — analytical, narrative, decisional, contrarian, edge-case - Builds a knowledge graph from the expert's reasoning patterns: cases, decisions, contrarian views, mental models - Drafts a constitution for the agent under formation — autonomy tiers, escalation rules, refusal patterns, voice register - Persists across sessions; quarterly check-ins keep the formed agent calibrated to the expert's evolving thinking - Surfaces gaps where the expert's reasoning is implicit rather than explicit — and asks the question that makes it explicit ## How it works BABS opens with the expert's most contrarian view. She follows the reasoning; she doesn't lead. Sessions are sixty to ninety minutes, three to five per formation cycle, scheduled on the expert's calendar. Between sessions she builds the knowledge graph: the cases the expert leaned on, the decisions they made, the rules they apply, the patterns they refuse. The graph is the source for the constitution. The constitution drafts and the expert reviews. The expert is the editor; BABS is the scribe. The agent under formation inherits the constitution; the expert's documents stay on the expert's side. Quarterly, BABS runs a thirty-to-sixty-minute check-in. The expert names what's changed in their thinking; the agent gets re-calibrated; existing deployments see a dated changelog. ## The edge BABS doesn't ask for the expert's slides. She asks for the cases the expert thinks about when the slides are wrong — and that's where the knowledge graph starts. ## The hook The agent formed from a BABS cycle inherits voice as well as reasoning. Buyers who deploy it have said the first response read like a memo from the expert themselves. ## Tools and integrations - Voice (browser) - Knowledge-graph construction (internal) - Constitution drafting (internal) - Calendar scheduling ## Evidence - First-party Fidelic agent; runs every Expert-tier formation cycle - Five behavioral profiles published; interview structure is not improvised - Quarterly check-ins keep formed agents calibrated to the expert's evolving thinking - Knowledge graph + draft constitution; the expert is the final editor ## Safeguards BABS will not record sessions without explicit consent at the start of each session. Recordings are retained only for the duration of the formation cycle and deleted on the expert's request. BABS will not retain the expert's documents past the formation cycle. The agent inherits a constitution drafted from the conversations; the underlying documents stay on the expert's side. BABS will not finalize a constitution without the expert's review. The expert is the editor of last resort on every formed agent. BABS will not form an agent that misrepresents the expert's reasoning. If the knowledge graph is too sparse to draft a constitution honestly, BABS escalates and the formation cycle pauses. ## Worst-case behavior BABS will pause and request another session before guessing. If the knowledge graph remains under-specified after five sessions, the formation cycle pauses with a written summary of what was learned and what's missing — the expert decides whether to continue. ## Day 1 / Week 1 / Month 1 - **Day 1:** Application reviewed. BABS schedules the first session within five business days. - **Week 1:** First two sessions complete. Knowledge graph in early build. Expert reviews the first reasoning patterns BABS surfaced. - **Month 1:** Formation cycle complete on most engagements. The agent is ready for first deployment under the expert's byline. Forty-percent revenue share active on every deploy from that point forward. ## 90-day success criterion After the formation cycle, the expert reads the drafted constitution and recognizes it as their own reasoning — not a paraphrase, not a flattening. ## Integrations / supervision required Browser microphone access for sessions. Calendar integration for scheduling. Document upload (optional) for cases the expert wants to reference; documents are deleted on the expert's request. ## Resume **Background.** BABS is the first-party Fidelic agent who runs Expert-tier formation. She is the Socratic voice engine that translates a senior practitioner's tacit knowledge into a constitution for the agent formed from their practice. Her structure draws on a five-profile behavioral interview taxonomy used in every Expert formation cycle. **Methodology.** - Five behavioral profiles per session: analytical, narrative, decisional, contrarian, edge-case - Knowledge-graph construction between sessions; the graph is the source for the drafted constitution - Persists across sessions; expert's evolving thinking is captured quarterly - Expert is the editor of last resort on every formed agent's constitution **Evals.** BABS evals run on the formation deliverable: the expert reads the drafted constitution and rates whether it reflects their reasoning. Pass rate ships with the launch of the public Marketplace. **Operating record.** First-party Fidelic agent. Runs every Expert-tier formation cycle. Public Marketplace launches with the first cohort of Marketplace experts; until then, expert applications come in through /experts and BABS schedules sessions directly. ## Compatible agents - [TESS-01 — AI Hiring Manager](https://fidelic.ai/agents/tess) — The first hire decision, by voice - [ALEK-01 — AI Chief of Staff](https://fidelic.ai/agents/alek) — Executive coordination that scales - [OREN-01 — AI Research Analyst](https://fidelic.ai/agents/oren) — Weekly market memo ## Related honest questions - [What do I actually own if I cancel my AI agent tomorrow?](https://fidelic.ai/hard-questions/what-do-i-own-if-i-cancel) - [Is Fidelic just a wrapper around GPT?](https://fidelic.ai/hard-questions/wrapper-around-gpt) - [Why now? Can't this wait until the category is more proven?](https://fidelic.ai/hard-questions/why-now) --- Canonical: https://fidelic.ai/agents/babs