About BraveLabs

How you organize
around AI determines
what AI can do for you.

BraveLabs combines organizational science and applied AI to help B2B service firms make better decisions, build better processes, and launch the products that scale what they're already good at.

3
Disciplines held
in one practice
1
Published paper,
IJCAI 2024
B2B
Service firms,
exclusively
Work completed for
Educate
Existing partnerships grew ~50%. A new revenue tier — previously unreachable — became customers.
TCSHRM
100% of 21 attendees left with immediate, executable actions.
FIS
Succession visibility across 60,000 people. No dedicated analyst required.
ColdSpring
Thirty years of methodology encoded. The expert retired. The process continues.
The premise

Every organization deploys AI into an existing set of conditions.

How decisions get made. Where authority lives. Which processes are documented and which are tacit. Why alignment is harder than it looks even when everyone agrees.

Those conditions shape what AI can do. They determine how far the technology can take you.

The organizations advancing fastest with AI treat this as the central design problem. They invest in the decisions, processes, and alignment that let AI perform. That's where the leverage lives.

BraveLabs was built at this intersection. We combine organizational psychology, cognitive science, and product engineering as an integrated practice for designing AI into how organizations work. The moments that matter most are the decisions, the processes, the instances where people must change how they work. The people designing AI into those moments need to understand organizations as deeply as they understand the technology.

This isn't consulting intuition — it's grounded in original research. Explore the intellectual foundation behind our work

The capacity to use AI well
is built, not bought.

How we work

Four principles that define every engagement — from a single strategy session to a full product build.

01

Research-Driven Innovation

Our solutions are grounded in original scientific inquiry into work, organizations, and AI. Published, tested, and continuously updated.

02

Bespoke Precision

Every engagement begins with understanding how your organization operates. The solution is designed from your specifics, not adapted from a template.

03

Human Capability First

We design AI to amplify human judgment. The goal is always what your people can achieve — AI is the accelerant, not the answer.

04

Systems Over Symptoms

We work on the organizational conditions that determine what AI can do for you over time: decision architecture, process design, alignment.

The team

BraveLabs was assembled to hold two things at once: the scientific rigor to understand what is happening inside organizations deploying AI, and the technical depth to build something that works.

Our founders bring graduate-level training in organizational psychology and cognitive science, and careers spent building AI products: designing system architecture, conducting peer-reviewed research, and shipping software that clients use in production. Our product and engineering team has delivered across the full arc from concept to deployed product. Our advisors contribute decades of global leadership development, organizational culture, and senior talent strategy at Fortune 500 scale.

When the thing at stake is how your organization will work with AI, that combination is what we'd want in a partner. It's what we've built.

Founders & Core Team
Ibanga Umanah
CEO & Strategy
LinkedIn
Daniele Orner
Science & Engineering
LinkedIn
Scot Duffield
Product
LinkedIn
Jonas Goslow
Engineering & Product
LinkedIn
Advisors
Ed Cohen
Advisor · Leadership Development
LinkedIn
Joshua Craver
Advisor · Talent Strategy
LinkedIn
Abam Mambo
Advisor · Organizational Culture
LinkedIn
The "Labs" in BraveLabs is active

Our research on AI deliberation informs every engagement.

We study how AI systems form opinions, where cognitive biases enter, and how deliberation architecture shapes organizational outcomes. Published at IJCAI 2024.

Three ways to engage

One conversation to find your path.

Every engagement starts the same way: we learn how you actually operate. What changes is what we build from there.

Product
AI product your clients buy
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Tool
Internal tool your team operates
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Playbook
AI strategy your leadership executes
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Ibanga also speaks on organizational AI strategy — how B2B service firms build the conditions for AI to perform across decisions, processes, and leadership alignment.

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Work with us

Not sure which path fits?
Tell us what you're working on.

In the first conversation, we'll map your situation against our three offering areas and tell you honestly which one fits — or whether it's a combination. No project commitment needed.

We take on a small number of engagements each year. First conversation is always free.