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The Lab

Innovation & R&D Partnership · Retainer

Ongoing partnership

Your dedicated innovation engine.

The Lab is our enterprise partnership model. We embed a dedicated cross-functional team inside your organization—strategists, engineers, designers, and data scientists—who operate like an internal product lab. Your team gets ongoing innovation capacity without the overhead of building it in-house.

Lab partnerships typically combine multiple service offerings—Working Sessions for alignment, Experiments for validation, Full Builds for production, and Continuous Engineering for iteration. The result is a persistent innovation engine that compounds learning over time.

Innovation Partnership

Leverage a single team across multiple investments.

Partner across the innovation funnel — from early-stage research through commercialization. One team, compounding context, building on every investment.

Innovation funnel showing 5 stages: Research (1-3 weeks), Proof of Concept (4-6 weeks), Prototype and Validate (1-3 months), MVP (3-6 months), and New Product Development (annual) — with ideas entering at Research, Development, and Commercialization phases
What You Get

An entire product organization. Embedded in yours.

Strategy, design, engineering, and data science—all working as one team on your innovation portfolio.

Innovation Pipeline

A structured process for identifying, validating, and building new products and features. We run continuous discovery and experimentation so your pipeline never runs dry.

Dedicated Cross-Functional Team

Product strategist, senior engineers, UX designer, and data scientist—all dedicated to your organization. Same team, building context over months and years, not weeks.

R&D Capacity

Dedicated time for exploring new technologies, building proofs of concept, and testing hypotheses. The Lab teams run rapid experiments alongside production builds.

IP Ownership

Everything we build belongs to you. Code, designs, research, data models—all IP is transferred to your organization. No licensing fees, no lock-in, no strings attached.

How It Works

A partnership that compounds over time.

The longer we work together, the faster and more effective the team becomes.

Q1

Foundation

Quarter 1

Team onboarding, stakeholder mapping, opportunity discovery, and the first round of experiments. We learn your organization and deliver the first working prototypes.

Q2

Velocity

Quarter 2

Validated experiments move to production builds. The team has context and can move faster. New opportunities enter the pipeline as completed products prove value.

Q3

Scale

Quarter 3–4

Multiple products in various stages of the pipeline. The innovation engine is running. The team scales up for high-priority builds and continues experimenting on the next opportunity.

Y2+

Compound

Year 2+

The partnership matures. Shared platforms, reusable components, and deep domain knowledge mean each new product builds faster than the last. Innovation compounds.

Who It's For

This is right for you if…

The Lab is designed for enterprise organizations that need sustained innovation capacity.

You have multiple product ideas but no capacity to explore them

Your organization sees opportunities everywhere but your internal teams are fully allocated to existing operations. The Lab gives you a dedicated innovation team without competing for internal resources.

You want to move faster than your organization naturally allows

Procurement cycles, committee approvals, and internal politics slow down innovation. The Lab operates outside those constraints—validated prototypes first, organizational alignment second.

You need a long-term partner, not a project vendor

One-off projects produce one-off results. The Lab is a partnership where context, trust, and shared knowledge compound over years. The team gets better the longer we work together.

Partnership, Not Procurement

We don’t build and leave.

Lab partnerships are measured in years, not sprints. We’re accountable for outcomes—not deliverables, not billable hours, not SOW line items. When your innovation succeeds, that’s our success story too.

Accountable for results

We expect to be held accountable for what we build. Not just delivery—adoption, performance, and business impact. If it doesn’t work, we fix it.

Your team gets smarter

Innovation partnerships should transfer knowledge, not create dependency. Your internal team builds capability alongside us—not around us.

Partnerships that compound

Mailchimp: 7 years, from startup to $12B exit. The best outcomes come from partners who stay long enough to understand what you’re really building.

We want to be part of your success story. Not your vendor list.

Ready to build your innovation lab?

30 minutes. No pitch. We'll explore whether an embedded partnership is the right model for your organization.

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