About

WHY WE EXIST

AI is moving faster than most institutions can govern, operationalize, or understand

Our answer is to keep the pieces together: strategy, governance, training, legal-grade thinking, and product development. "Labs" is literal: we build because building is the only honest way to advise.

THE NAME

Conatus is the sustained effort toward capability. It is the work of becoming more able over time

That is how we think about AI adoption: not a one-time purchase, not a deck, not a switch you flip, but an organization building the capacity to work with these tools responsibly. Labs is the operational part. We build products, not just advice.

HOW WE WORK

We start with the problem

Sometimes the answer is fractional AI leadership. Sometimes it is governance. Sometimes it is training. Sometimes it is a product or workflow. The scope follows the decision in front of you, not a prebuilt consulting package.

WHO WE WORK WITH

Our clients are usually past the "is this real?" phase and into the harder question: how do we use AI responsibly and defensibly?

They need experienced judgment from people who can think across strategy, governance, and implementation.

ENGAGEMENT PATTERN

The organizations that hire us tend to share a disposition

They are serious about AI. They operate in environments where risk matters. They want strategy, governance, legal thinking, and implementation in the same conversation.

CREDENTIALS

Our work is informed by active engagement with AI companies, policy institutions, legal education and hands-on work in frontier AI

We are Harvard- and Yale-trained, active participants with the OpenAI Expert Forum and the Center for AI and Digital Policy, and our technology is powered by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. We stay close to the tools, research, and governance questions shaping the field.