Who employs the people that do research and development in my lab?

We do. We provide them full benefits, regular paychecks, and we handle mentoring, and letters of recommendation when they move on to faculty jobs.

For most institutions, it is best to see us as a service that accomplishes specific needs or tasks in your lab. That is, we are a contractor, not a set of remote employees that you are hiring.

Where are you located?

We are an all-remote company. We have no central location. We believe this ‘cloud’ presence represents the best opportunities for both labs and researchers to work with their best match.

That said, we are a business entity registered in the United States. If your funding requires you to work with somebody in the United States, you can use us, even though we work with people from around the world (exceptions apply for certain Defense Contracts).

How do we pay you?

This is flexible and depends what is best for your institution and your sources of funding and which stage of the project you are in.

Some people just contract us directly, paying with flexible University or Lab funds. Others have us as a subrecipient, subawardee, contractor, or vendor on a grant. We can operate in any capacity, and it often depends on the scope of assistance you are looking for.

We can help define which of these would be most beneficial or required for you after learning more about the project.

How do you handle intellectual property?

This also depends on the type of work. Generally everything is yours, but we would encourage you to share authorship of papers with significant contributors from our side to help further their career. Authorship rights will be discussed as we discuss the scope of work so that this is known before we even begin.

We offer a discount on our services to people that elect to allow work products to be open-sourced.