The frontier R&D unit of Edge
Your frontier roadmap, built by people who build. We keep you ahead of what's happening in AI, turn it into concepts for your business, and when you say go, we build the finished product. Reports, specs and calls. Not decks.
Start with a report. Build when it's earned.
Bench 02Quadruped gait trial
§2On-device VLM inference under 200ms
Tested in the lab this quarter. Precision holds; recall doesn't yet.
Why Labs exists
A slide that fails in the real world still gets paid for. Labs only recommends what it's prepared to build, then builds it. We run our own robotics lab and design Red Dot-winning hardware, so we know the difference between a demo and a product.
The engagement
A single report to begin, a fixed retainer if it earns its place, and outputs designed to be acted on, not filed. Reports, briefs, product concepts and calls. Building only when there's something worth building.
01 Quarterly, with a monthly brief
02 Two or three a year
0recommendations we wouldn't build ourselves
03 When you say go
The lab
Proof
Short write-ups of Labs work, live and in use. Each one starts with the number that changed, and follows the report's structure: context, what we built, how, what changed, what's next.
Built with and for
On tools
Every product above began as a brief sharp enough that a model could act on it and a person could tell whether it had. Knowing what to ask, what good looks like, and which answers are wrong: that part isn't automated.
That part is us.
The quarterly report
crosses from demo to deployable
Implication: in your pick-rate model within two quarters.
On-device VLM inference under 200ms on
Tested in the lab this quarter. Precision holds; recall doesn't yet. Lab result
Competitor signal:
Not the threat it looks like. Here's why, and what to watch instead.
Recommended move: none this quarter
The capability you asked about isn't ready. We'll tell you the month it is.
How it works
Everything short of a build is virtual: reports, briefs, specs and calls. Building happens only when there's something worth building. Some quarters the right answer is "not yet", and we'll say so.
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.
An industry-specific frontier report every quarter: developments, lab results, competitive signals and what they mean for you. A two-page brief and a call each month in between.
Product concepts aligned to where you're going. Each scoped and justified, designed to move your numbers, not your slide count, and each arrives with a spec we're prepared to build.
Rapid iteration to a finished product. Software and AI built by the Labs team; physical devices designed and engineered in our lab to Red Dot standard. Priced per piece of work, agreed up front.
The finished product goes to Edge Expert Services to host, operate and evolve on the Edge platform. Labs stays on the retainer, watching for the next move.
Industries
Labs works best in industries with something at stake in the real world: a fleet, a network, a line, a customer base. Most of what we build is software and AI. Some of it is hardware. All of it has to work outside the demo.
Tell us about your organisation and the change you're after. We'll come back with what the first report would cover, and what it would cost.
Or write to labs@edge.network
