What runs
Commands, environments, dependencies, variants, and reproduction order.
Research Continuity
Carry forward the knowledge files cannot explain.
EG helps laboratories and R&D groups preserve tacit workflows, project decisions, source relationships, and hard-won warnings - then turn them into useful handoffs for new researchers and AI coding agents.
Private group workspaceTacit knowledge interviewHuman handoffAgent-ready export
The continuity gap
The files survive. The reasoning often does not.
Scripts, figures, notes, papers, configurations, and datasets rarely explain why a workflow is arranged a certain way, which variants are interchangeable, what silently fails, or how an experienced student knows that a result is wrong.
Research Continuity connects those files to the missing operational context before the person who knows it leaves.
What fails
Silent errors, invalid assumptions, misleading outputs, and recovery paths.
What requires judgment
Interpretive choices, validation thresholds, and when to ask a domain expert.
What connects
Related files, project families, source lineage, and downstream consumers.
One capsule, several handoffs
Preserve once. Prepare every new collaborator differently.
A governed research knowledge capsule can support a conversational Mentor, a project map, onboarding documents, quizzes, source-grounded inquiry, and a context package for coding agents.
Code, LaTeX & configs
Figures & datasets
Papers & notes
Human context
Research knowledge capsuleSources, projects, decisions, workflows, warnings, and evaluations.
Research Mentor
Knowledge map
Student handoff
Codex / Claude pack
A better knowledge interview
Review a growing model instead of answering an endless questionnaire.
The redesigned interview should inspect the files first, prefill what it can, ask only source-appropriate questions, and make the value of every answer visible.
Resolve reuse blockers
Missing commands, dependencies, validation checks, rights, or context that prevent someone from using the source safely.
Capture operational judgment
Recommended variants, workflow roles, expected outputs, and conditions that change how the file should be used.
Grow the knowledge tree
Connections, scientific rationale, related projects, and broader lessons that deepen group understanding.
AI-prefilled
Review and improve a draft drawn from the source.
File-family aware
Answer once for related script or source variants.
Always editable
Correct answers without deleting and re-uploading.
Visible progress
See gaps resolved and branches ready for handoff.
Agent handoff generation
Give a coding agent the right project context, not the entire archive.
A researcher can name a project and a new objective - for example, adapting an existing DFT workflow to a new system. EG selects relevant group knowledge and produces a scoped handoff for Codex, Claude, or another agent.
- Objective, scientific context, and definition of done
- Relevant files, sources, environment, and commands
- Known pitfalls, validation checks, and human decision points
- Boundaries, citations, and questions the agent must escalate
“Use the group's existing knowledge to prepare an agent for the new project - without asking the researcher to reconstruct the entire workflow in a prompt.”
Research Continuity product direction
Founding pilot
A defined Knowledge Capsule for one group or project.
The founding engagement combines guided onboarding with the existing Academic Lab infrastructure, then produces a reviewed handoff package.
Research Knowledge Capsule
- One research group or defined project scope
- Up to 100 representative sources by agreement
- Structured knowledge interview and source-family review
- Research Mentor, knowledge map, and handoff deliverables
- Evaluation report and 90-day support period
A suitable pilot group
- A real transition, onboarding, or continuity need
- A defined source collection and project owner
- A knowledgeable researcher available for focused review
- Permission to measure usefulness and improve the workflow
Common questions
What a pilot is - and is not.
Is this the same as a CAD $99 Academic Lab subscription?
No. A Knowledge Capsule is a guided service engagement with source preparation, a structured interview, review, evaluation, and handoff deliverables. Ongoing workspace access may be included or offered afterward.
Does EG train a new foundation model on our research?
No. The product organizes and retrieves approved project material for defined experiences. Model providers, deployment, retention, and confidentiality requirements are reviewed for each engagement.
Can confidential or unpublished work be included?
The current product supports private academic sources, but every pilot must define access, sensitivity, retention, provider, and deletion requirements before ingestion. Highly sensitive work may require a different deployment approach or exclusion.
Will the handoff replace supervision?
No. It should reduce repeated reconstruction and make known context easier to find. Scientific judgment, safety, ethics, and decisions outside the approved material remain human responsibilities.