Talk to The Lab
Talk to The Lab
The Lab is The Progress Lab's solution-design practice. We help progressive organizations figure out their AI strategy — and then build the systems to deliver on it. From a team that has designed and deployed AI in highly regulated industries at Fortune 50 scale, for a movement that deserves the same caliber of work.
Start a conversationWe assess your AI usage, policies, and goals — then recommend the structure that supports your values and objectives. Security planning, certifications, architectural design, tools assessment, and staff training, all on one engagement.
AI usage, policies, vendor inventory, security posture, staff readiness.
Tooling map, integration plan, security planning, certification path.
Readiness program for the people who'll actually use what we build.
A roadmap your team owns, with the support to execute it.
The Lab's custom builds extend the platform into the work no off-the-shelf tool can do — measured against your outcomes, not a vendor's vanity metrics.
Outcomes, not demos.
Voter contact, supporter Q&A, donor servicing — architected to specific outcomes with measurable performance, not a flashy demo that breaks the first time a real user shows up.
Models that adapt as conditions change.
Machine learning models that recalibrate in real time as new data and conditions come in — no manual retraining cycle. Backed by 15+ years of patented enterprise ML experience.
Accurate answers, every time.
Pre-built secure retrieval-augmented-generation frameworks customized and tested for your use case. Customer-managed keys, private inference, testing methodology published.
Bridge mission and proposal eligibility.
AI approach and architectural support for organizations applying for AI-enabled funding where a technical partner sign-off is required.
The Lab brings academic benchmarks, third-party model evaluations, and project-specific measurement and monitoring tools to every engagement — because deployed AI is only as safe as the methodology that watches it. We design for evaluation from day one, not as an afterthought.
We benchmark against published hallucination evaluations and build use-case-specific tests for the queries your audience will actually ask — so factual errors get caught in evaluation, not in production.
Our evaluation methodology travels with every engagement, from AI Roadmapping audits to custom builds. We can take it deeper — including a separate evaluation engagement for AI you've already deployed elsewhere.
Most AI consultancies have done one or the other. We've done both.
Our founding team has designed and shipped AI in highly regulated industries at Fortune 50 scale — where privacy law, audits, and validation aren't optional. That discipline travels with every engagement.
15+ years of patented enterprise AI experience on the founding team. Including human entity resolution at scale.
Founded by a long-time progressive operator and national political fundraiser who has worked for campaigns, elected officials, and national committees.
We tap a network of public- and private-sector experts to bring the right capability to the right engagement — without ballooning the engagement.
Tell us a little about your organization and what you're trying to figure out. We'll get back to you within a week.
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