Testing the Frontier.

Building What Works.

We study how people in different industries organically adopt AI, then build the vertical tools that match their real behaviour.

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Applied AI Research - London, UK

People use AI differently than predicted

Travellers describe moods to ChatGPT, not keywords. Brokers draft relationship notes, not reports. Real adoption patterns reveal real opportunities.

Every industry has its own AI behaviour

A hotelier uses AI nothing like a yacht broker. Horizontal tools miss industry-specific behaviour entirely.

The right tools do not exist yet

Most AI tools are built for everyone, optimised for no one. We study specific industries, then build what fits.

FindingFin

AI Visibility for Hospitality

Travellers ask ChatGPT for boutique hotel recommendations. Couples ask Perplexity for wedding photographers. AI curates 3-5 options from thousands. FindingFin makes sure independent businesses appear in those answers.

40%
of travellers use AI for discovery
72%
of AI hotel picks are chains

Meridian

Relationship Intelligence for Brokerage

Ship brokers, yacht brokers, and luxury asset dealers manage long-cycle, relationship-heavy deals across fragmented channels. Meridian studies how brokers are organically using AI to maintain relationships and surfaces the tools they actually need.

18mo
average deal cycle in brokerage
73%
of brokers use AI for client comms
Research phase

Procoto

Optimised Procurement for One-Time B2B Events

Conference organisers, exhibition managers, and festival producers procure hundreds of one-time suppliers under extreme deadlines. Procoto maps how event teams already use AI to shortlist vendors, then builds the sourcing layer that fits their actual workflow.

62%
of event procurement is manual outreach
3.2x
faster shortlisting with AI-assisted sourcing
Pilot phase
01

Observe

We study how people in specific industries are organically adopting AI. Not surveys or predictions. Real behaviour, real workflows, real queries.

02

Test

Behavioural hypotheses become experiments. We run controlled interventions with real businesses and measure what actually changes.

03

Build

Validated patterns become products. We build vertical tools shaped to how people in each industry already use AI, not how we think they should.

Built with industry, not for it

Independent operators
Hotels, brokers, event teams
Domain experts
Researchers and consultants
Research teams
Academic and industry labs

We partner with independent operators, domain experts, and research teams who want to understand how AI is actually changing their industry. If you are building in the space or living the problem, we want to hear from you.

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