- Conducting primary market research and investor discovery to assess demand.
- Developing unit economics and financial models to evaluate margins, costs, and impact.
Spring 2026
Our Projects.
Every semester our teams partner with founders, operators, and engineering leaders to ship deliverables that move their business forward. Here’s a snapshot of what we’re building this term.
This semester
Engagements in flight.
Eight teams, eight clients. Each project runs the full UIUC semester from kickoff to final delivery.
- Identifying high-impact opportunities for AI-driven efficiency and automation.
- Designing and testing light-weight AI-enabled solutions using the CRAFT framework.
- Researching smart-manufacturing trends and adoption across the industry.
- Synthesizing insights on AI and automation within Panasonic's platform.
- Building a member intelligence system to centralize data and automate intake.
- Implementing automated engagement workflows fired from a unified data layer.
- Prototyping Workshop Mode to support live in-session collaboration.
- Research, workflow design, and feature scoping for the workshop experience.
- Centralized inventory management with audit trails and consistent documentation.
- Automated reorder workflows triggered by inventory thresholds.
- Diagnosing inefficiencies across go-to-market workflows.
- Designing targeted AI-driven solutions and piloting them with stakeholders.
- Prototyping Optura's Workshop Mode to support collaboration and decision-making.
- Leading research, workflow design, and core feature development for a scalable end-to-end workshop experience.
Recent Clients
Companies we've worked with.
