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AX·05The Lab · applied R&D

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.

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01Who it’s for

Built for the people who own the hard part.

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Co-development partners

You have a frontier problem that needs real research plus the engineering to ship a prototype.

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Investors & labs

You want a strike team that can de-risk a technical thesis with a working artifact, fast.

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The community

You follow our open research, tools, and writeups — and want to build on them.

02What you get

Concrete deliverables.

Artifacts, decisions, and working systems — 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.

Boundedscope, deadline, deliverable
Workingprototype — not a report
Openresearch, tools, and benchmarks
03How it works
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Frame the mission

We turn a fuzzy frontier question into a scoped mission with a deadline and a concrete deliverable.

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Assemble the team

Students from 42, Epitech, EPITA, PhDs, and senior engineers — matched to the problem.

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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.

Operators who’ve built & led

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