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Back the research. Help shape what comes next.

Fund the research your organization wants to see become useful practice. Build TBD Innovation Labs offers scoped partnerships around context, decisions, human–agent work, and agentic operating systems—with substantive work, leadership engagement, and visible recognition.

Discuss an enterprise partnership

A research relationship with operational and strategic value.

Your organization brings an important question, relevant expertise, and funding. Together, we define the investigation, the evidence needed, and how the findings can inform your next move.

Investigate a priority

Direct research effort toward an agreed operational challenge with a defined scope, milestones, and work products.

Build informed capability

Include executive briefings, working sessions, and scoped evaluation opportunities so your team can understand the implications.

Be visible behind the work

Agree recognition across the research pages, relevant publications, and events or briefings included in the program.

Three ways to make a meaningful commitment.

Enterprise partnerships are priced around research capacity, scope, duration, access, and recognition. They are separately negotiated commitments, distinct from individual and small-team memberships.

One defined question

Research Partner

Support a bounded study with a decision your organization needs to make.

  • Agreed study brief, milestones, findings, and limitations.
  • Leadership readout and a working session on implications.
  • Approved logo acknowledgment on the supported research page and agreed outputs.

Commercial structure: a funded study agreement.

Discuss a research partnership

A coordinated body of work

Program Sponsor

Back a sequence of studies around one of the lab’s research areas or an industry challenge.

  • A defined research agenda with staged reviews and reports.
  • Executive briefings and separately scoped evaluation opportunities.
  • Named program recognition and agreed visibility across related outputs.

Commercial structure: a multi-stage program commitment.

Discuss a program sponsorship

A sustained lab relationship

Founding Lab Partner

Make a sustained commitment to developing the lab’s research and practical application.

  • A jointly scoped agenda spanning agreed research themes.
  • A leadership review cadence and defined collaboration capacity.
  • Prominent approved recognition in the Research Partners section, with additional placements agreed in writing.

Commercial structure: an annual or multi-year partnership proposal.

Discuss a founding partnership

A visible place for organizations advancing the work.

The proposal identifies logo placement, acknowledgment wording, duration, and any co-branded publication or briefing. Recognition follows a signed agreement and approved use of each organization’s brand.

Build the proposal around what matters to you.

  1. Research: the questions, study design, capacity, milestones, and reports you fund.
  2. Participation: the sponsor team, working sessions, leadership briefings, and evaluation access.
  3. Recognition: the approved placements and acknowledgment schedule.
  4. Rights: data use, publication, confidentiality, and any separately agreed technology or method license.
  5. Commercial terms: the commitment, payment milestones, review points, and conditions for renewal.

Sponsors can help frame the questions. Research findings remain evidence-led, including negative or inconclusive results. Sponsorship does not automatically grant exclusivity, product rights, or control of the conclusions.

For personal learning and smaller teams, explore the proposed supporter tiers. For a specific business transformation assessment, start with Discovery.

Tell us what needs to work better.

Discuss an enterprise partnership