Practice Areas / Applied Research Lab
For the questions a consulting engagement cannot answer.
An applied research practice run in partnership with graduate researchers from leading universities across the NYC/NJ corridor. We take on the pre-commercial AI questions our advisory clients keep surfacing — and produce research a leadership team can act on.
University-partnered · Sponsor-engaged · Published
Propose a research problemThe practice point of view
The practice point of view
Consulting engagements are sized for questions that can be answered in weeks, with evidence available today. But the questions leadership teams now face are often earlier than that. Does this emerging agent architecture actually work in our environment? Is this novel AI capability trustworthy enough to deploy against a regulated workflow? What does the research literature say about a risk we are about to take?
The Applied Research Lab is designed for those questions. We run engaged-sponsor research projects with graduate researchers at leading universities — producing studies that are rigorous enough to defend and practical enough to act on.
Offerings in this practice
Applied Research Project
A sponsored research engagement — question definition, literature review, original investigation, and a leadership-grade written output — delivered with a named university research team.
10–16 weeks · Fixed sponsorship fee
Learn moreClosed-door discussions bringing Lab researchers, sponsor leadership, and outside practitioners together on a current question.
Quarterly · Invitation-based
Short, citation-anchored briefings produced out of Lab work, intended for leadership audiences rather than academic ones.
Ongoing publication
University partnerships
Leading research universities · NYC/NJ corridor
The Lab partners with graduate programs at leading research universities across the NYC/NJ corridor. Each research project is supervised by Runbit and executed by a named graduate research team, producing work that meets academic standards while answering a sponsor’s operational question.
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