Labs engagements start simple and stay predictable: one monthly fee, one monthly report, concepts as they surface, regular calls, and a build team ready the moment something is worth building. Everything on the retainer is virtual.
A short series of calls to get inside your industry and your organisation: where the value sits, where the friction is, and where frontier capability can change the game. Interviews and data access where useful. No site visits required.
An industry-specific frontier report every month: developments, competitive signals and concrete implications for you. Presented on a call to your leadership team, with time for questions.
Product concepts and strategic ideas, each scoped, justified and designed to move your numbers. Every one comes with a product spec, so you're deciding on something concrete, and something we're prepared to build.
Choose what to pursue and Labs builds it: rapid iteration from spec to finished product. Software and AI built by the same team that wrote the report; physical devices designed and engineered in our lab to Red Dot standard.
The finished product is handed to Edge Expert Services to host, operate and evolve on the Edge platform. Labs stays on the retainer, watching for the next move.
A fixed retainer you can budget for, and builds priced per piece of work. Nothing else.
Fixed for the term once scoped to your organisation. Twelve-month minimum, then rolling.
Fixed price or time-and-materials, agreed up front.
A retainer with a build team attached is unusual. Most advisers can't build, and most builders don't advise. We've set it up this way deliberately.
The retainer means we're paid to be right over time, not to be impressive once. A concept that doesn't pan out costs us credibility with a client we want to keep for years. So we only recommend what we're prepared to build.
Building being optional means we have no incentive to invent work. Some months the right answer is "do nothing yet", and we'll say so. When there is something worth building, you already know the team, and the team already knows your business.
Handing the finished product to Expert Services means it keeps working. Labs doesn't run production systems. Edge Expert Services does, on infrastructure we own. You get one group for the idea, the build and the years after.
The report lands on schedule without chasing.
Every concept carries an estimate of what it moves and by how much.
We'd rather lose a month than sell you a build that fails.
From insight to finished product, the same people.
Code, models tuned on your data, hardware designs; all yours.
We don't resell anyone's robots or models. We only sell being right.
Not in the usual sense. Consultancies advise and leave. Labs advises, then builds the finished product with the same team, then hands it to Edge Expert Services to run. We're judged on what ships.
Remote. Everything on the retainer is delivered as reports, product specs and calls. Building happens in our lab and on the Edge platform. It's a virtual offer by design, so your team's time goes on decisions, not travel.
No. The retainer stands on its own. Building is there when a concept is worth pursuing, priced separately and agreed up front.
Mostly software and AI: agentic systems, models tuned to your data, internal tools, customer-facing products. Some physical devices when the concept calls for it, designed and engineered in our lab. Our device design has won multiple Red Dot awards.
Expert Services provides senior engineering teams for the day-to-day running and evolving of systems. Labs exists for the moves that change the game: finding them, specifying them, and building them. When a Labs build goes live, Expert Services takes it on.
You do. Code, models fine-tuned on your data, hardware designs; all yours. We retain our general know-how and anything that pre-dates the engagement.
Anything sensitive runs on the Edge platform, sovereign infrastructure under your control, or on hardware in our lab that never leaves it. We agree the boundaries in writing during discovery.
Tell us about your organisation and we'll come back with how a Labs retainer would work for you, and what the first report would cover.
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