CombientCombientCombientCombient
What you get

AI Center

Turn advanced technologies into human centered solutions, so you can make them work in your business.

We help you explore, evaluate, and develop human-centered AI solutions around business challenges, grounded in your own context, data, and decision-making needs. Through applied research, rapid experimentation, and human-centered design, you can learn faster, reduce uncertainty, and turn emerging technology into practical business value.

AI Center

Key Benefits

  • Scalable, human‑centered solutions — Turn AI into tools and experiences that fit real workflows and user needs.
  • Minimized risk — Validate feasibility and value through focused experiments and clear evaluation.
  • Better technology decisions — Compare technologies in your own context before committing resources.

How it Works

  • Start with a challenge — We deep-dive into your context and map the people, decisions, data, and systems around it.
  • Test what works — we combine research and experimentation to align solutions to your business.
  • Leave ready to scale — Your teams get validated concepts, success measures, and reusable methods.

Strategic Impact

The AI Center studies emerging advances in AI and connects them to the practical problems the network faces today. We build and apply methods grounded in how the network actually works, which lets us work through the harder parts of people and AI together and turn what we learn into tools others can reuse. Working this way, you move faster and keep full control over your own AI development.

Formats & Resources

Ways to engage

Fast Labs

Fast Labs are a focused 2-week R&D cycle focused on solving a well-posed problem that supports Associated Companies with a working prototype, documented findings, and integration recommendations.

2 weeksSenior leaders and managers

Tech Anthropology Study

In-depth anthropology research cycle focused on the Individual Contributor Level to understand AI adoption and its impacts across future of work topics to identify strategies and tactics to make AI scale at the current frontier.

10-12 weeksSenior leaders and managers