Overlay Research

Progress as a collective act

Overlay builds digital products that help people navigate everyday challenges, with opt-in research initiatives integrated into the tools themselves. Everyday human experiences can become rigorous knowledge, opening a new path for research that reaches more people, reflects greater diversity and learns from life as it happens.

The product

Learn it. Remember it. Master it.

Bring Mnemea what you need to learn. It structures the material, finds the right ways to encode and practise it, and adapts the journey to you. Expert memory techniques for healthier learning. Our first product, and the first step toward Research-at-Scale.

Explore Mnemea

Overlay Research

Progress as a collective act

Overlay builds digital products that help people navigate everyday challenges, with opt-in research initiatives integrated into the tools themselves. Everyday human experiences can become rigorous knowledge, opening a new path for research that reaches more people, reflects greater diversity and learns from life as it happens.

The product

Learn it. Remember it. Master it.

Bring Mnemea what you need to learn. It structures the material, finds the right ways to encode and practise it, and adapts the journey to you. Expert memory techniques for healthier learning. Our first product, and the first step toward Research-at-Scale.

Explore Mnemea

Overlay Research

Progress as a collective act

Overlay builds digital products that help people navigate everyday challenges, with opt-in research initiatives integrated into the tools themselves. Everyday human experiences can become rigorous knowledge, opening a new path for research that reaches more people, reflects greater diversity and learns from life as it happens.

The product

Learn it. Remember it. Master it.

Bring Mnemea what you need to learn. It structures the material, finds the right ways to encode and practise it, and adapts the journey to you. Expert memory techniques for healthier learning. Our first product, and the first step toward Research-at-Scale.

Explore Mnemea

Mnemea

Learn like the experts do

Most of us are taught what to learn, but rarely how to learn it. Remembering is a skill, and Mnemea teaches it to you by bringing proven memory techniques into everyday learning, making them practical, accessible, and tailored to how you learn.

What it does

Your learning journey

Made for you

One tool, many journeys

Where it's going

What we're building towards

Bring what you need to learn

Lecture notes, slides, a paper, a video. Mnemea identifies the key concepts, maps how they relate, then organises everything into learning materials you could have built yourself, with a week to spare.

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Bring what you need to learn

Lecture notes, slides, a paper, a video. Mnemea identifies the key concepts, maps how they relate, then organises everything into learning materials you could have built yourself, with a week to spare.

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What it does

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Made for you

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Where it's going

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Prepare

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Product preview. Click Enlarge for full size

Bring what you need to learn

Lecture notes, slides, a paper, a video. Mnemea identifies the key concepts, maps how they relate, then organises everything into learning materials you could have built yourself, with a week to spare.

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What it does

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Made for you

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Where it's going

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Research-at-scale

How much further could research go?

Research today inherits structures shaped by the realities of previous eras. Digital technology has since transformed our ability to connect at scale, adapt to individuals and learn continuously from real-world activity. Research-at-Scale asks what could happen if research could borrow more of those capabilities.

In practice

How product and research meet

The ecosystem

Connecting people, products and research

What it enables

New possibilities for research

Where we focus

The questions we want to explore

A digital dimension for research

Digital products have succeeded in turning complex services into experiences people can understand and navigate in daily life. Research-at-Scale extends that possibility to research, creating new ways to connect people with studies relevant to them, make informed choices about participating and contribute over time.

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Where we focus

A digital dimension for research

Digital products have succeeded in turning complex services into experiences people can understand and navigate in daily life. Research-at-Scale extends that possibility to research, creating new ways to connect people with studies relevant to them, make informed choices about participating and contribute over time.

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Catalog

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Functionality preview. Click Enlarge for full size

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The ecosystem

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What it enables

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Where we focus

A digital dimension for research

Digital products have succeeded in turning complex services into experiences people can understand and navigate in daily life. Research-at-Scale extends that possibility to research, creating new ways to connect people with studies relevant to them, make informed choices about participating and contribute over time.

Values & principles

The principles that shape our work

What matters is how the commitments we make translate into practice: in the products we build, the research we conduct, the people we work with and the choices we make along the way.

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Human

People first

People are the reason for our work. Products, research and technology should begin with human needs and be judged by the value they create in people’s lives.

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Collective

Open & participatory

Research should be understandable, voluntary and reciprocal. People should be able to see what is being studied and learned, help shape the questions, and share in what comes from the answers.

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Inclusive

Inclusive by design

People come with different backgrounds, abilities, resources and ways of experiencing the world. We want our products and research to work across those differences, not ask people to fit around them.

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Responsible

Ethics by design

Responsibility starts before anything gets built. From how we conduct research to how we use AI, clear purpose, human oversight, fairness, safety and accountability should shape our choices, with their downstream effects considered from the start.

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Protected

Privacy & security by design

Trust depends on protection by default. Consent should be informed and revocable, data minimised, identity kept separate from research data, and access controlled and auditable, with safeguards proportionate to sensitivity.

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Systemic

Embrace complexity

Individual well-being and society are deeply interconnected systems. We look for those interactions, trade-offs and ripple effects, treating them as part of the question rather than simplifying them away.

None of us can shape the future alone.
All of us can contribute to what it becomes.

What could we do together?

Whether you’re curious about Overlay or interested in Mnemea, have a research question worth exploring, or see an opportunity to work together, we’d love to hear from you.

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