The studio behind Agentic SQA
IR Labs is an applied AI studio and a venture of Integrated Research. We build products where AI meets hard engineering problems, and we run them as real businesses.
How we work
We pick one hard problem at a time and put a small senior team on it. We build against real usage, not demos. What earns its keep gets scaled. What does not gets killed. That discipline is the studio.
What we choose to build
We look for problems that are technically deep, economically meaningful and underserved by generic AI tooling. Conviction starts the work. Evidence decides whether it continues.
The first product
Agentic SQA is evidence-first verification for systems code. It went from first commit to paying customers in under a year, and it sets the bar for everything we build next.
The team
A small senior team across engineering, compilers and machine learning. Everyone builds.
Geoff Sieron
Founder and General Manager
Runs IR Labs end to end, from product to P&L.
Nick Brown
Cofounder and CTO
Built the platform: infrastructure, the data backbone and the console.
Mars Saxman
Principal Compiler Engineer
Compilers and static analysis at Microsoft, Google, Coverity, Synopsys and Intel.
Joe Hoover
Principal AI Scientist
Led agentic evaluation systems research at Apple and LLM training and inference at Replicate.
We hire rarely and deliberately, and when we do, the bar is the team you would want reviewing your kernel patch.