BUILD · VALIDATE · TRANSFER · SCALE
The AI Innovation Lab
YOUR JOURNEY
Coaching → Workshops → Sprint → AI Department → Innovation Lab
You have the data, the customers, and the market position. We have the AI and entrepreneurial experience. The Innovation Lab is where those two things meet: to build solutions that solve your most expensive problems, prove they work, and in the right cases, take them to market together.
START A LAB CONVERSATIONTHE CORE IDEA
Most enterprises have the same problem: they know AI can help, but they can't move at the speed the opportunity requires. Internal IT is backlogged. Vendors want to own the solution. Consultancies want to scope indefinitely. We take a different approach. You send us the problem. We send back a solution. If you want us to build it, we do, through the Department structure, inside your IT environment, with you owning the IP. If the solution is validated internally and has natural applications across your industry, we explore going to market together.
HOW IT WORKS
Phase 1
Problem Identification
Typically begins with a Sprint or Department relationship. You surface your most expensive, repeatable operational problems. We score them against our ROI framework and identify the highest-leverage candidates for AI solutions.
Phase 2
Build and Validate Internally
We design and build the solution, inside your IT tenant, with your data, compliant with your governance. We validate it works and measure the ROI before calling it done. You own the result from day one.
Phase 3
Transfer or Manage
Choose your exit: we transfer the solution fully to your team with documentation and training, or we continue as the managed service provider. Either way, the IP and data are yours.
Phase 4
Take It to Market (Optional)
If the solution has proven value internally and natural applications across indirect competitors or adjacent industries, we explore joint venture models to take it to market together. You recoup your investment and generate new revenue from the IP you helped create.
CASE STUDY: BRAND COMPLIANCE TOOL
- Problem: Brand managers manually reviewing hundreds of images and videos for compliance: slow, subjective, expensive, inconsistent.
- Solution: AI-powered brand compliance tool. Ingests brand guidelines, analyzes visual and video assets, delivers approve/deny decisions with detailed reasoning.
- Speed: Vision to vibe-coded proof of concept in 4 days.
- Impact: 50% reduction in review time. Hundreds of assets processed per day. Consistent, objective decisions. Scalable across brands and markets.
- Model: Built, validated, and transferred, not licensed indefinitely.
WHAT YOU CAN BUILD
THE JV MODEL: WHERE THE REAL VALUE LIVES
When a solution built for your business has natural applications across your industry, we don't just hand it back. We propose taking it to market together, as partners. Every validated solution is a potential startup: proven technology, enterprise-grade first client, real commercial demand. The client who funded the build gets the internal efficiency gains and, if they want it, co-ownership in something that can generate revenue from the market.
- Revenue from IP you helped create: recoup your investment and generate ongoing returns
- Strategic positioning as an AI-forward brand in your sector
- Aspiro contributes go-to-market, sales, and ongoing technical infrastructure
- You contribute domain expertise, market access, and proof of concept
- Equity or revenue share structured per opportunity, no boilerplate terms
- For the right solutions, Aspiro may co-invest and retain equity; we put skin in the game
The ladder from Sprint to Department to Lab is also a path from client to partner. Some of our most important relationships started as a $15,000 workshop and became joint ventures.
WHO THIS IS FOR
- Companies at $100M–$50B in revenue with defined, repeatable operational problems that have expensive consequences
- Enterprises in the US, UK, or Switzerland looking for an AI build partner who takes accountability for outcomes
- Organizations already on the AI Department retainer who are ready to build their first priority use cases
- Leaders who want to move at startup speed without giving up enterprise-grade governance, IP protection, and data security
WHY ASPIRO FOR THE LAB
- We build, we don't just advise: Rohan (former VP at JP Morgan Chase) leads engineering. Vahid leads workflow and BI design. Real builders, not theorists.
- 4-day POC to market: The brand compliance tool went from vision to proof of concept in four days.
- JV alignment: We only propose taking solutions to market when we genuinely believe in the opportunity.
- IP stays with you: We don't own your data, your solutions, or your results.
PRICING & PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURE
The Innovation Lab is scoped per engagement. There is no standard price because there is no standard problem, and the commercial structure depends on how far you want to take what we build together.
Build and transfer
We build the solution inside your environment, you own the IP entirely. Billed at Department retainer development rates ($55 USD/hr engineering, $100 USD/hr data science and senior strategy).
Build and manage
We build and continue as your managed service provider. Same rates, ongoing relationship.
Build, validate, and co-venture
We build together, prove it works internally, and take it to market as partners. Equity or revenue share negotiated at the point of market validation. Client engagement to startup partnership.
Most Lab engagements begin through an AI Department retainer relationship, which provides the lowest rates and the fastest path to trust. Standalone Lab engagements are considered on a case-by-case basis.
NEXT STEP
Not a shelf product. A path from your toughest problems to solutions we build with you, for you to own.
We think meaningful AI leverage is often closer than it feels, faster to validate with discipline, and more profitable at the operating line when it is aimed at a real, expensive problem instead of novelty. The next step is one direct conversation about what is costing you money, time, or momentum. From there we either map a Lab build that earns its place, or we tell you clearly if something else is a better fit.