Whatever expertise your project needs, we plug it in.

What you get

• Required-capability identification
• Vetted partner recommendation
• Technical coordination & alignment

• Required-capability identification. A precise statement of the expertise, equipment or infrastructure the research actually needs — separated from what merely looks impressive on a partner list.
• Vetted partner recommendation. Named specialists or facilities matched to the requirement, assessed for technical fit, availability and working style before you meet them.
• Technical coordination & alignment. One research plan, one set of definitions, one documentation standard — external contributors work inside your project’s framework, not alongside it.

Where the capability comes from

Two sources, one standard. Through our IRIN innovation network, we engage university researchers whose academic depth matches the technical uncertainty at hand. Alongside them sits a pool of vetted specialist and equipment partners — labs, facilities and niche technical firms assessed before they ever touch a client project. In both cases, contributors are integrated into your project’s research plan and documentation standards, so the evidence trail stays whole no matter how many hands the work passes through.

When you need this

• “The experiment needs equipment we don’t own.” The design calls for a test chamber, instrument or facility that makes no sense to buy for one project — but the work cannot proceed without it.
• “We need expertise nobody on the team has.” One deep, narrow question — a fermentation chemist, a power-systems modeller, an RF engineer — stands between the project and its next result, and hiring for it would take months.
• “We have three suppliers and no coordination.” External contributors are already involved, but each works to its own definitions and record-keeping, and nobody can assemble their outputs into one defensible body of evidence.

How it runs

1. Identified

   We derive the required capability directly from the research plan: what expertise or infrastructure the uncertainty actually demands, specified tightly enough to match against.

2. Vetted

   Candidate specialists and facilities — from the IRIN network and our partner pool — are assessed for technical fit, capacity and compatibility with documented, structured research.

3. Coordinated

   The chosen contributors are onboarded into the project’s governance framework and coordinated through delivery, with their work aligned to the plan and captured in the same evidence trail as everything else.

Integration never works alone

Capability requirements come out of R&D Scoping & Problem Translation and R&D Design & Experimentation; the framework the specialists work inside is Research Management & Documentation. See our research approach for how the four core services chain together, or browse all services.

Frequently asked questions