Outsourced Research and Consulting
The pressures of day to day product development, sharp focus on quarterly results, and keeping up with the competition can cripple innovation. Companies have plenty of great ideas - any of which could lead to substantial competitive advantage - but lack time to explore them.

Outsourcing speculative or applied research is a cost-efficient, expedient, and sure investment in your company's future. Our engineers bring a comprehensive knowledge of audio and video production market and technology and an industry-focused perspective to your challenges. We target small, direct projects as well as longer-term applied research. Our world-wide network of industry and academic experts can accommodate your project requirements.

In-house research
We are leaders in the fields of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), audio signal processing, and machine learning systems for audio production, with further experience in data mining, pattern recognition, and Human-Computer Interfaces (HCI).

Large-scale research projects
We provide product and project management of your outsourced research projects. We are experienced in driving new university collaboration and sponsored research agreements.

Depending on the size and location of your business, grant opportunities are available to subsidize your research needs. We can setup and manage large-scale research projects using U.S. government funded solutions such as Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/ Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants, European Union research grants for fostering small business development, state-funded solutions similar to UC-Discovery, and University-specific startup seed grants.

Services include:
• Outsourced research and technical investigation
• Project management of large-scale research projects
• Technology incubation
• Algorithm development
• Competitive analysis of product features and product roadmap evaluations
• Impartial technology evaluation, including technical analysis, customer-focused user studies, and beta-testing

Innovation creates a competitive advantage.

How it Works

To get started, contact us! We are pleased to answer all of your questions.

Our first meeting will focus on your business, challenges, product needs, and technical goals.

Afterwards, you will receive a project proposal detailing your goals, milestones, and an overview of the solutions available to your company.