research group

Ensemble Labs

better ways for people and agents to work together.

01 · the problem

Every tool became multiplayer. Then AI put each person back in a private room.

A private chat window.

Insights are born and die in one person's session. Every handoff to a teammate loses context and repeats the work.

Agents on laptops.

An agent with one person's access, acting alone, is an infrastructure problem. Nobody else can reach it, and it inherits everything that person can see.

One provider, forever.

The tool you work in decides which model you use. The best model changes every few weeks, and most tasks do not need it.

02 · the bet

Agents belong in the workstream, with the whole team in the room.

One session a whole team can see, correct and teach, in the places work already happens. What one person teaches becomes a rule for everyone. Permissions follow the people in the room. The context belongs to the company, and the model is a supplier, chosen per task.

Claudeclaude
OpenAIopenai
Grokxai
Geminigemini
Metamuse
Mistralmistral
DeepSeekdeepseek
Qwenqwen
Kimikimi
Ollamaollama

any of them, on your keys. each task goes to the model that does it well, which is rarely the most expensive one: frontier where it matters, small and open where it does not. the context stays yours when you switch.

03 · what we build

Two products, one bet.

atlasthe context layer

What a company keeps for its agents. Skills, knowledge and metrics, with a scope on every object and a version on every change. Any agent reads it.

skills · knowledge · metrics · any agent

maiathe coworkers

Your team's AI coworker, in Slack. One per channel. Anyone in the thread can ask it, correct it or teach it; it asks before it acts.

one per channel · any model · your keys · approvals in the thread

04 · letters

Written in the open, published when they are true.

01AI made work single-player again.what a private chat window costs a team, and what a shared session gives back
02Permissions follow the room.an agent in a shared thread may only use what everyone there can see
03What one person teaches becomes a rule for everyone.corrections as skills, confirmed by a teammate, versioned and reversible
04The model is a supplier, not a landlord.why the tool you work in should not decide which model you use