Creating leading AI partnerships to accelerate fusion innovation.
Partnership strategy and outreach case for frontier AI research collaboration.
Client challenge
The developer wanted to leverage generative AI to accelerate plasma-physics research but lacked internal AI expertise or budget for such capabilities. They were also approaching a fundraising round and needed to be cost-efficient while attracting the best talent for each task.
What we did
Identified a novel approach to AI-driven research acceleration, identified relevant contacts at each frontier AI lab, then mapped the client's design onto the research problems each frontier lab already funds, and wrote a targeted proposal per lab in that lab's own language, surfacing the specific ways in which partnering with our client can most advance their agenda.
Shape of the outcome
Reframed, the work directly progresses essential research for the client while addressing physics-wide challenges in a way that is enticing to top labs. By pairing these intriguing research questions with targeted outreach and a strong case for why each question is best solved through partnership with our client, we were able to gain attention of researchers at multiple frontier labs. Program is currently under way.
Client anonymized. Outcomes shown as direction and ratio, not absolute figures.