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The applied AI research lab Ries co-founded with Jeremy Howard in December 2023 — whose operating philosophy and flagship product Solveit embed the Lean Startup's learning discipline into the architecture of AI tooling itself.
Answer.AI is an applied R&D lab co-founded by Eric Ries and Jeremy Howard in December 2023, dedicated to building AI tools that keep humans at the center of the creative process. Its operating philosophy — that development should inform research and research should inform development — is pure Build-Measure-Learn logic directed at the technology transforming the loop itself. The lab's flagship product, Solveit, breaks complex tasks into small, iterative, understandable steps, with the human maintaining agency as 'the agent driving the process end-to-end.' The architecture is a structural response to a structural problem: the tendency of AI-assisted production to outrun human comprehension, producing artifacts that work without anyone understanding why or whether they should exist.
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The lab's founding reflects Ries's recognition that the Lean Startup methodology itself required rebuilding for the AI age. 'People think that the order is research then development,' Ries said at the lab's founding, 'but this is wrong. Development should inform research