Applied AI Research & Engineering
The models are capable.
Powerful, fast, pointed nowhere. The discipline that turns capability into working autonomy barely exists. We build it — harness, evaluation, defense.
The practice
Research, put to work.
We turn applied AI research into tools people can use. Harnesses, evaluation, and defense are the foundations.
Harness Engineering
We design the context, memory, tools, protocols, and orchestration that let models operate inside consequential work.
Agent Evaluation
We measure trajectories, outcomes, drift, cost, and value — then make those signals useful during development and runtime.
Agent Defense
We engineer identity, access, supply-chain, and runtime boundaries for systems that can act, not only answer.
The lab loop
We earn conviction in our own systems first.
Run it in-house.
We run autonomous workers and agentic infrastructure inside the lab, where abstractions meet actual work.
Stress it under load.
We expose failure modes, measure behavior, and make the system earn every increase in authority.
Share what survives.
We turn durable findings into frameworks, technical writing, and reusable infrastructure for the field.
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