Build the lab that ships the human signal
A small, deliberate team turning years of consented human-behavior research into the training material the frontier actually needs.
Five things we mean when we say "a lab"
Quality is non-negotiable
If a sample isn't honest signal, we don't ship it. We pay our reviewers to say no, and we expect them to use that power.
Long maker time
We protect deep-work blocks aggressively. Standing meetings are rare. Most communication is asynchronous and written.
One foot in the work
Everyone on the lab team, including leadership, runs at least one capture session per quarter. The work informs the work.
Consent is not a checkbox
If you can't articulate why a session is okay to record, we don't record it. If you can't reach the participant for re-verification, we don't ship.
Small, by design
The lab will not grow past around twenty people in the first eighteen months. Hiring slowly is a deliberate choice, not a constraint.
The parent doesn't own us
Askable is the parent, but Askable Labs has its own brief, its own team, and its own commercial decisions. We share infrastructure. We don't share roadmap.
Open roles
The process, in five visible steps
We try to make the process honest: minimal hoops, clear feedback, paid trial work when relevant, and a real conversation with the team you'd be joining. Average end-to-end is around three weeks.
Application
Send the form on the contact page. CV or LinkedIn is fine. We read everything within a week.
Initial conversation
30 minutes with whoever has hired into this role before. What you've done. What you'd want to do. What worries you.
Paid trial brief (relevant roles)
For engineering and operations roles, a 2-day paid trial on a representative slice of work. You keep what you make.
Team conversation
90 minutes with two future colleagues. Half their questions, half yours. We don't bait you.
Offer
Written offer within five working days of the team conversation. We tell you our reasoning either way.
Send us an open application anyway
If you've spent your career sitting with experts and turning what they know into something a system can use, write to us, even if the listed roles don't match.
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