Labs — Research for capital allocators & deep-tech operators
Institutional-grade due diligence, cohort screening, IP landscaping, technical strategy, and sector thesis — for investors, incubators, and the deep-tech operators building the next platform shifts. Eight research agents, six-phase pipeline, knowledge-graph memory. Built to replace six-week Big 4 DD with two-week outputs that go deeper.
The research infrastructure
8
Research agents
academic, patent, grant, VC, regulatory, talent, market, competitor
6-phase
Pipeline
plan → search → cross-pollinate → iterate → verify → synthesize
12+
Sources in parallel
arXiv, Semantic Scholar, USPTO, EPO, JPO, SIPO, grant DBs, VC press, regulatory bulletins
KG
Knowledge-graph memory
every run compounds — paper, patent, author, and deal links persist across engagements
PhD-grade
Depth, not breadth
published science evaluated at specialist depth, not abstract-level skims
Weeks
Turnaround
one week for screens, two weeks for full DD — months of work compressed
Every run compounds the graph. A week of compute can ingest thousands of papers and patents at specialist depth, for a marginal cost that makes month-long human research engagements look expensive by an order of magnitude.
01 / What comes back
Every engagement is fixed-scope, fixed-fee. A written deliverable in your hands in two weeks, not six. Defensible under IC scrutiny.
01 / Output
Two weeks. One deal. One verdict.
Deep-tech DD that goes past the founder's pitch. Published science evaluated at PhD depth. Competing teams mapped. IP conflicts flagged. Regulatory path scored. One written verdict with cited sources.
Deliverable
Diagnostic report + technical plausibility score + IP + regulatory + team + market assessment.
02 / Output
200 applicants → 40 technically plausible in 48 hours.
Batch-screen an applicant pool at the depth a human analyst applies to one deal. Each founder gets a scored card: technical plausibility · IP strength · market sizing · regulatory + team. Filtered, sorted, comparable.
Deliverable
Ranked shortlist + per-applicant scorecard + comparison matrix.
03 / Output
Prior art, white space, litigation exposure.
We map what's already patented, who's suing whom, and where the defensible white space lives. Goes beyond the USPTO — EPO, JPO, SIPO, and tracked litigation — pulled live per engagement.
Deliverable
Patent landscape map + prior-art conflict list + defensibility score.
04 / Output
What's real, what's hype, where the money is moving.
Full-spectrum sector analysis for thesis-driven funds. Published research + funding flows + talent migration + regulatory signals + researcher networks. One document you can brief your IC with.
Deliverable
Sector thesis doc + investment map + network graph + public-vs-PE-vs-VC flow analysis.
02 / Who we serve
VCs, family offices, incubators, rating agencies. Anyone whose decisions depend on whether the underlying science holds up.
VCs
Deep-tech DD · technical plausibility · IP landscape · sector thesis
Incubators
Cohort screening · mentorship matching · IP conflict checks · regulatory scan
Deep-tech operators
Competitive intel · prior-art defensibility · technical strategy · regulatory path · team benchmarking
Family offices
Sector thesis · co-investment screening · due diligence for deep-tech deals
Rating agencies + research desks
Sector coverage · primitive data feeds · white-label research
03 / Methodology
Plan → Search → Cross-pollinate
Research agents parallel-search across 12 sources (arXiv, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, USPTO, grant databases, VC deals, press, regulatory bulletins). Cross-references close the gaps any single source misses.
Iterate → Verify → Synthesize
Every claim gets a citation. Every citation gets verified. Uncertainty is flagged, not smoothed. The final synthesis is a written document you can defend under IC scrutiny — not a dashboard.
LLM tier routing
Frontier-grade reasoning routed only where it pays, bulk generation on the next tier, classification run locally. Cost-controlled, reproducible, auditable — so the economics work on long horizons, not just one-off reports.
Dogfooded before delivery
The full-domain synthesis format — hundreds of papers read at specialist depth, researcher profiles, materials-and-signals matrices, publishable follow-ups — has been shipped on our own research. Your sector is next.
Every engagement produces a citable, defensible artifact. Every source is tracked. Every finding is reversible.
Engage
Two weeks. Fixed fee. Written DD in your hands by Friday of week two. If it doesn't match what your in-house analyst would have produced, we refund the engagement.
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