Lab 01 — Call for Research Partner Companies
Companies see GenAI save time when it generates — and lose that time again when a human verifies the output. If someone spends 10 minutes checking a 1-minute AI draft, the net ROI is zero or negative. Most organisations measure the first number and never the second.
Lab 01 — the Verification & Trust Lab — measures this verification tax in real enterprise conditions and ships the tools companies need to succeed at Westerman Level 1. The Lab has started, the Spoke roster is confirmed, and the double-blind field study runs July–August 2026. We are now recruiting the Partner Companies whose workflows the study measures.
What the study does
Lab 01 is a pre-registered, double-blind, mixed-methods field study. It separates the verification tax into three measurable layers run against the same task library:
• Layer A — researcher-prompted, expert-verified output, scored blind by domain Spokes.
• Layer B — your employees write their own prompts in their normal working environment, isolating the real cost of everyday AI literacy.
• Layer C — your employees verify AI output as if about to use it in their own job, measuring real-world acceptability.
Both your employees and the expert graders score output without knowing which model produced it. The headline result is the gap between the optimistic cell most published studies report and the realistic enterprise cell — with effect sizes attached.
What Partner Companies bring.
4–8 employees as Sample Users from Marketing, Sales, Finance and / or Project Management. We are looking for AI-affine practitioners — people who already use GenAI in their daily work and are comfortable being visible about it.
Roughly 90–120 minutes per Sample User across the whole cycle: one 60-minute prompting session, one 30-minute verification session, plus a short consent and intake step. An optional 30-minute tool-feedback session is offered to those interested.
Honest feedback in interviews on what works and what does not.
What Partner Companies receive
Premium access to Lab 01 tools — the GenAI Verification ROI Calculator, the Enterprise GenAI Quality Rubric (Q-Matrix), and the Trust Infrastructure Diagnostic — four weeks before public release.
A Westerman Level assessment: where you sit on the risk slope and your readiness for the Level 2 transition.
Access to EBTH experts for the implementation of the tools (optional)
An invitation to the EBTHub expert network and events.
Data protection and ethics
All GenAI tools run under enterprise agreements with a Zero-Training Guarantee — providers may not use your prompts or outputs to train foundation models. No company data is used for the test. Data is processed under GDPR (Art. 6 legitimate interest or consent), with Data Processing Agreements in place. Telemetry is strictly opt-in per task and bounded to the active GenAI window — it is not employee monitoring. EBTHub provides briefing templates for Works Council clearance.
How to apply
Email office@ebthub.com with the subject line “Lab 01 Research Partner Application” by 27 June 2026.
Tell us your industry, company size, and which functional areas your Sample Users would come from. A short intro call follows.
Questions about any open call? office@ebthub.com
