An independent AI research lab
Passion Is Ecstasy
PIE Research is a small lab building machines that reason, create, and think alongside people. We start where curiosity stops feeling like work.
01 — The lab
Most research begins with a question. Ours begins with an obsession — the moment curiosity stops being work.
Obsession over process
The best work here started as something someone could not stop doing on a weekend. We organise around that, not around roadmaps.
Build to understand
Every idea leaves the whiteboard as something you can run, break and feel. Demos beat decks; artefacts beat opinions.
Small, fast, unreasonable
A handful of people, no layers, one question at a time — and the freedom to chase the version that sounds impossible.
02 — Research
What we work on
Three directions we are pursuing right now. They will change — that is rather the point.
Agents & reasoning
Systems that plan, use tools and stay coherent over long horizons — and that fail in ways we can actually inspect.
Human–machine interfaces
New surfaces for thinking with models. The chat box was a first draft, not the destination.
Generative worlds
Models that make things — sound, image, story, code — with taste and intent, not just fluency.
03 — Members
The people
PIE Research was founded by two people who kept having the same argument until it became a lab.
Research direction and systems.
Product, interface and design.
04 — Join us
We are only at the beginning.
Open to researchers, engineers, designers and collaborators who are already obsessed with something. Tell us what it is.
hello@pieresearch.ai