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You no longer have to choose between innovation and upholding your values.

The Progress Lab delivers guidance from AI experts and provides a mission-aligned AI platform that enables progressive groups to harness the power of general purpose foundation models within a robust security and transparency framework.

Our values

Five commitments, built into the product.

Each one is a promise — and a set of product features that make it real. Open any value to see how.

AI amplifies human judgment; it doesn't replace it.

  • Customizable plugins ensure the platform adapts to how your team already works
  • Open-ended model access to build something new without sending your prompts and data to Big Tech
  • Human review is built into our workflows — nothing ships without human oversight
  • Full audit trail — see who did what, on which model, so people stay accountable and in control

Bias, impact, and methodology live in the open.

  • Risk tiers at the point of model selection, drawn from published independent evaluations and vendor system cards
  • Energy and carbon per run made visible, per user and per workspace
  • You select the model size, time-of-day scheduling, data center region to control environmental impact
  • We publish methodology — sources cited, scoring visible in-app
  • Factual claims are searched and cited so every claim is traceable to a source

When security and convenience conflict, safety wins every time.

  • Perimeter defense: required multi-factor sign-in, invite-only accounts, encryption in transit and at rest
  • Access governance — role-based access management, policy enforcement, and full audit logs
  • Defaults, not upsells — security at the architecture level, not as configuration

Your data stays yours.

  • Your data, queries and prompts are never sent to third-party AI vendors
  • Customer-managed encryption available for enterprise builds — you hold the keys, not us
  • Your data is never used to train models for Big Tech (or us!)

We're model-agnostic on purpose. The right tool serves the organization's mission, not a vendor relationship.

  • Choose the right model for each task, the moment, and the mission
  • Risk tier and energy surfaced so the choice serves your mission, not a vendor
  • No lock-in — no single-vendor dependency baked into your stack
Security · Internal & external

Safety wins every time.

Security at the architecture level, as a default — not an upsell. Three layers, from the login screen to the model itself.

The Front Door

Perimeter defense

  • Two-factor authentication on every account
  • Password & access rules enforced platform-wide
  • Encryption in transit and at rest
Inside

Access governance

  • Role-based access management
  • Policy enforcement built into every workflow
  • Full audit logs — who did what, on which model
Vendor Access

Private by design

  • Zero data retention
  • Customer-managed keys
  • No external AI APIs
  • Workspace admins can wipe all data at any time
  • Your data never trains anyone’s model
Tested and monitored

What we build, we test. What we ship, we monitor.

Every system we build — platform or custom — is tested and monitored for hallucination, bias, drift, and agentic risk. Academic benchmarks, third-party model evaluations, and project-specific tools travel with every engagement, from AI roadmapping audits to custom builds.

See how The Lab evaluates

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