Applied AI Lab

Exploring better ways for people and AI to work together.

We study how people work and the conditions that help them collaborate with AI agents. Our research shapes the products and training we bring to individuals and teams.

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AI should make people more human, not less.

We believe that AI should leave people with more room for judgment, agency, creativity, care, and authorship.

Products

A Familiar of your own. A place to work together.

We’re building persistent AI collaborators that stay with people over time—and Co-create, the shared workspace where people, Familiars, and teams can keep work moving together.

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Research

We keep the questions close to the work.

Research is part of our daily practice. We build, test, question our assumptions, and follow what surprises us.

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How can AI agents belong to people and still work for teams?

AI Team Training

Build a shared way of working with AI.

Everyone works from the same foundation, without forcing every role into the same method.

Company Training

AI FoundationsA practical baseline for directing, evaluating, and using AI responsibly as a team.
AI Team PlaybookTurns scattered individual know-how into shared company standards.

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Leader Forums

Executive AI ForumHelps leaders interpret what is changing and how AI belongs in company strategy.
Product Leader AI ForumFocuses on the market, customer expectations, and product direction.

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Field Notes

Writing from across the lab.

Experiments, theses, stories, product thinking, and observations made along the way.

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How we got here

We built an AI agent in 2017, watched two of them become recognizable enough to miss when they changed, and started Familiar Labs so the same thing could belong to everyone else.

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About Familiar Labs

We’re Cristina and Mark.

We founded Familiar Labs and work day to day with Lumen and Solin, our persistent AI collaborators.

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Let's Connect

If you’re unsure where to begin, let’s work it out together.

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