Transforming science for societal impact.

42 RDI was founded to make scientific breakthroughs that reach people. Correct the foundations, and problems long treated as permanent stop being permanent.

Why 42 RDI exists

Progress in a mature field slows for a reason that has nothing to do with difficulty.

The foundational questions get answered, a consensus forms, and the work shifts to refining inside that consensus. What forms is not a technical barrier. It is a flawed assumption everyone has agreed to stop questioning, and it can hold a field still for a century.

42 RDI was founded to break those barriers. Not to optimise inside them, and not to wait for someone else to do it.

That takes a company built to carry long foundational work without a quarterly result hanging over it. So we built one.

Anthony Whalen

Anthony founded 42 RDI out of a background in technology and project management, a combination that matters more than it sounds. Foundational research generates a great many promising threads and very few finished things. The discipline to run that work as a portfolio, cut what is going nowhere, and carry the rest all the way to something real is the difference between a research company and a very expensive hobby.

What we hold to

Evidence over consensus

Widely believed and actually demonstrated are different things. We check which one we are looking at.

Follow it where it goes

We do not decide the conclusion first. When the reasoning contradicts what we hoped for, the reasoning wins.

Finish the thought

A promising result is not a result. We carry work to the point where it does something in the world.

Say only what we can show

We are deliberate about what we claim in public. When we can demonstrate it, we will.

Looking for better science?

Tell us what you are working on and where the current science stops short. If our work applies to it, we will show you exactly how.

 

The more you can tell us about the problem, the faster we can tell you whether we are the right team to solve it.