The problem
Some problems need research — not just more engineering.
Bounded R&D missions with elite talent — applied research, working prototypes, and open tools at the frontier. Each mission has a scope, a deadline, and a deliverable.
For problems that don't fit a sprint.
Co-development partners
You have a frontier problem that needs real research plus the engineering to ship a prototype.
Investors & labs
You want a strike team that can de-risk a technical thesis with a working artifact, fast.
The community
You follow our open research, tools, and writeups — and want to build on them.
What a mission produces.
Artifacts, decisions, and measurable outcomes — not slide decks.
Applied research missions
Bounded missions on hard problems — agentic security, AI infra, autonomous systems, biorobotics — with a working deliverable.
Prototypes & tools
We build the thing that proves the idea, not a report about it. Code, benchmarks, and demos.
Open research
Selected work ships as open source, writeups, and benchmarks the whole field can use.
Co-development partnerships
Longer-horizon collaborations where we build alongside your team toward a shared technical bet.
Every mission ends with something that runs.
Answer a question with data
A rigorous benchmark and the write-up behind it — reproducible, citable, open by default.
Make the idea exist
A working system that proves the bet end to end — code, demo, and the decisions documented.
Give the field a lever
A tool or dataset the community actually adopts — documented, maintained, used.
From first call to real-world impact.
- 01
Frame the mission
We turn a fuzzy frontier question into a scoped mission with a deadline and a concrete deliverable.
- 02
Assemble the team
Students from 42, Epitech, EPITA, PhDs, and senior engineers — matched to the problem.
- 03
Ship the artifact
A working prototype, benchmark, or tool — plus the research behind it.
Bring us your hardest problem.
If it's at the frontier of what's technically possible, it's the kind of thing the lab exists for.
Engineers who’ve shipped & led
Scaleway
Kiln
Tresorio
Berty
Gno.land
Ingenium Calor