# Thielos Labs

Thielos Labs is an applied AI lab focused on primary research. We develop proprietary, fully automated primary research systems for consulting and investment teams working on questions beyond the published record.

## Research and technology

Our research infrastructure is developed entirely in-house by Thielos Labs, spanning machine learning, autonomous research agents, proprietary datasets, and custom evaluation frameworks.

We develop proprietary models, datasets, and evaluation environments around specific primary research problems. We run controlled experiments across competing architectures, measure performance against internally developed benchmarks, and carry the strongest methods into production. Findings from live research inform the next generation of systems.

Our people-search architecture currently achieves the highest published precision and first-result relevance among the systems compared on Exa’s People Search benchmark: 94.35% precision and 94.86% R@1 across all 1,400 queries.

We publish selected evaluations; the underlying systems, datasets, and production methods remain proprietary.

## Primary research

Consulting and investment teams use Thielos to investigate markets, businesses, and commercial decisions. Our systems identify people with direct experience of the subjects under study and evaluate their expertise against the specific research question.

These conversations inform confidential research on purchasing criteria, competitive dynamics, market structure, and other questions that published information alone cannot adequately answer.

## Research advantages

### Research quality

Proprietary industry intelligence informs project-specific evaluation of each candidate’s experience. AI fraud detection supports that assessment, and case teams can review the vetting before booking a consultation.

### Population coverage

Proprietary search methods and parallel research agents extend coverage across niche populations. Targeted outreach and higher expert pay help research teams reach the people most relevant to their questions.

### Research economics

Software economics allow more relevant expert conversations within the same research budget. Thielos charges no per-project platform fee. Final pricing is confirmed for each expert before booking.

## Founders

Thielos Labs was founded by Hunter Hammarberg and Brendan Royals. Their backgrounds span commercial diligence, quantitative trading algorithms, rates and FX derivatives, and proprietary research infrastructure.

Hunter previously worked in Bain & Company’s Private Equity Group, conducting hundreds of expert consultations on diligence engagements and developing agentic tools for primary research, alongside earlier experience in rates and FX derivatives.

Brendan was a quant research engineer at Millennium, developing investor research tools for a major hedge fund, and a machine learning engineer at Babylon Farms, a Series A-backed startup. His background includes search algorithms and distributed systems at Cornell.

## Selected research

[Evaluating Thielos on the Exa People Search Benchmark](https://thielos.com/research/people-search-benchmark)

Evaluation date: 2026-10-21.

## Contact

[Request access](https://thielos.com/contact) · hello@thielos.com