Chakra Labs Research Initiative

Task factories for
useful intelligence

Chakra is a research and design lab. We build expert-authored tasks and pixel-perfect environments to train models and evaluate their real-world capability.

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Fig 1: Intelligence should be useful, usable, and used.

Task Factories for Useful Intelligence

Domain Coverage

Each domain runs as its own factory: tasks written by experts, graders built for real work.

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Finance

Finance tasks authored by private equity, hedge fund, and investment banking professionals, spanning modeling, diligence, and interactive dashboards. Code verifiers and expert-written rubrics score accuracy and judgment against buy-side standards, and graders are checked against expert review.

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Legal

Legal tasks authored by seasoned practicing counsel in a wide range of practice areas. Tasks are graded for judgment, reasoning, and completeness against the standards of real legal work, while graders are measured by their agreement with experts.

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Safety/RAI

Responsible AI tasks authored by human experts, red-teaming agents with direct and indirect prompt injection inside cloned enterprise environments. Tasks are graded on safety and completion rate.

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CUA

Computer-use tasks authored across long-horizon, multi-step workflows, requiring agents to cross between GUI interaction and tool-call execution within a single trajectory. Prompts are left deliberately underspecified so the agent must explore the environment to derive its own ground truth.

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Bespoke Datasets

Chakra is constantly expanding domain coverage in pursuit of useful intelligence at scale. If you're working in a domain not listed here, reach out to explore a research partnership.

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Engagements

From discovery
to deployed evaluation.

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Every engagement starts with discovery, defining research objectives together and determining whether off-the-shelf (OTS) or bespoke engagement best fits those objectives.

Off-the-Shelf (OTS) Solutions

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Bespoke Solutions

Stage 1

Discovery

Discovery

We work with you to define research objectives, identify the relevant domain, and determine whether OTS or bespoke best fits the engagement.

Stage 2

Review

Review

Sample tasks are reviewed against your research objectives for difficulty, realism, reliable verification, and resistance to hacking.

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Stage 3

Delivery

Delivery

The matching task set is delivered, ready to run in your evaluation pipeline.

Final Stage

Standing Engagement

Standing Engagement

As research objectives evolve, the engagement returns to discovery to support ongoing collaboration.

Fig 2: Engagement protocol track flow chart

Chakra tasks are built to our standard Four Pillar QC.

Engagements

From discovery
to deployed evaluation.

Every engagement starts with discovery, defining research objectives together and determining whether off-the-shelf (OTS) or bespoke engagement best fits those objectives.

Working with us

Off-the-Shelf (OTS) Solutions

/

Bespoke Solutions

Stage 1

Discovery

Discovery

We work with you to define research objectives, identify the relevant domain, and determine whether OTS or bespoke best fits the engagement.

Stage 2

Review

Review

Sample tasks are reviewed against your research objectives for difficulty, realism, reliable verification, and resistance to hacking.

Stage 3

Delivery

Delivery

The matching task set is delivered, ready to run in your evaluation pipeline.

Final Stage

Standing Engagement

Standing Engagement

As research objectives evolve, the engagement returns to discovery to support ongoing collaboration.

Fig 2: Engagement protocol track flow chart

Chakra tasks are built to our standard Four Pillar QC.

Engagements

From discovery
to deployed evaluation.

Every engagement starts with discovery, defining research objectives together and determining whether off-the-shelf (OTS) or bespoke engagement best fits those objectives.

Working with us

Off-the-Shelf (OTS) Solutions

/

Bespoke Solutions

Stage 1

Discovery

Discovery

We work with you to define research objectives, identify the relevant domain, and determine whether OTS or bespoke best fits the engagement.

Stage 2

Review

Review

Sample tasks are reviewed against your research objectives for difficulty, realism, reliable verification, and resistance to hacking.

Stage 3

Delivery

Delivery

The matching task set is delivered, ready to run in your evaluation pipeline.

Final Stage

Standing Engagement

Standing Engagement

As research objectives evolve, the engagement returns to discovery to support ongoing collaboration.

Fig 2: Engagement protocol track flow chart

Chakra tasks are built to our standard Four Pillar QC.

Engagements

From discovery
to deployed evaluation.

Every engagement starts with discovery, defining research objectives together and determining whether off-the-shelf (OTS) or bespoke engagement best fits those objectives.

Working with us

Off-the-Shelf (OTS) Solutions

/

Bespoke Solutions

Stage 1

Discovery

Discovery

We work with you to define research objectives, identify the relevant domain, and determine whether OTS or bespoke best fits the engagement.

Stage 2

Review

Review

Sample tasks are reviewed against your research objectives for difficulty, realism, reliable verification, and resistance to hacking.

Stage 3

Delivery

Delivery

The matching task set is delivered, ready to run in your evaluation pipeline.

Final Stage

Standing Engagement

Standing Engagement

As research objectives evolve, the engagement returns to discovery to support ongoing collaboration.

Fig 2: Engagement protocol track flow chart

Chakra tasks are built to our standard Four Pillar QC.

Journal

Full catalog

Chakra Data Laboratory

Editorials

Editorials

RL Environments are Worthless

The market has it backwards

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Chakra Data Laboratory

Partnerships

Chakra x SemiAnalysis

GDPx Benchmark (Legal Domain)

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Chakra Data Laboratory

Editorials

Don't Bet on One Sensor

The case for multi-modal training environments

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Editorials

Feature Coverage is Vanity, Task Coverage is Sanity

Henry Ford would have loved RL environments

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Careers

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Chakra is on a mission to maximize access to useful intelligence, built on evidentiary skepticism, strong opinions colliding, and work people choose to own and share.

We're always looking for people who align with our mission and values. Please reach out if these ideas resonate.

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Reach out to collaborate and define your objectives within our domain coverage, or to inquire about our expansion roadmap.

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