Research Consulting

The same methodology that produced a corpus of two thousand papers — applied to your problem. Delivered in days, not months.

You have a question that requires deep, rigorous research. Traditional consultancies give you slides. Academics give you timelines measured in semesters. We give you answers — with citations, adversarial review, and honest uncertainty estimates — in days.

Engagement Types

How It Works

1
Scope
30-minute call. Define the question, constraints, and deliverable format.
2
Proposal
Written scope, timeline (days), and price. Flat fee, no billable hours.
3
Delivery
Operator-scaffold research. Tiered verification on all claims. Adversarial review.
4
Review
Walkthrough call. Revisions if needed. Ongoing engagement option.

What Makes This Different

Speed without sacrifice. Operator-scaffold coupling produces research at 10–100× academic pace. The speed comes from the scaffold's ability to enumerate and explore faster than any human. The rigor comes from the operator's ability to recognize and kill nonsense.

Honest uncertainty. Every claim is tagged with a verification tier. We tell you what we're confident about, what's likely but unverified, and what's speculative. No consultancy-grade false confidence.

Cross-domain synthesis. The same operator has produced research across mathematics, philosophy, AI, law, medicine, physics, and more. Pattern recognition across domains is the method's core advantage.

The operator matters. Kevin Scharp has spent twenty years on conceptual engineering — the discipline of finding and fixing broken concepts. This is what makes the coupling work: not just domain knowledge, but the specific skill of recognizing when a concept is doing multiple jobs badly.

Start a conversation

Describe your research problem. We'll tell you if we can help and what it would cost.

kscharp@gmail.com