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🤫 University Relations

The builders of what comes next are in school right now.

We fund research, share our work, and show up for students where we live first. Research universities, technology colleges, business schools and community colleges: the places raising the next generation of thinkers and builders.

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Why universities

Every good idea starts as somebody's research.

🤫 is a public-benefit project, funded today by one American citizen as research and development given to America. That kind of work has always started on campus, with people who chose to teach. We partner with universities to fund the field, not to take from it, and to help the smartest, hardest-working students in America and around the world build things that matter.

Who we build with

Four kinds of school. One set of promises.

For the thinkers

Research universities

Funded labs and sponsored research on the hard problems: consent a machine can verify, agents that run on hardware a person owns, and personal supercomputing for everyone.

For the builders

Technology and technical colleges

Real systems, not toy problems. Capstones on the work we actually ship, the Garage Residency in Kirkland, and the hands-on craft that turns an idea into a working machine.

For the business men and women

Business schools

A new kind of company to take apart: going to market, local commerce, and ventures built in the open. Case studies and projects on how a business earns trust instead of buying attention.

For everyone who wants in

Community colleges

Short, practical paths into agentic AI, taught by trainers who came up the same way. The front door we care about most, through the 🤫 Academy we are building.

What we do together

The research, and the neighbourhood.

Research and development

The deep work, funded properly and published openly.

  • Funded research labs, on multi-year terms
  • Sponsored projects on questions we define together
  • Named fellowships for PhD students
  • Findings published freely, including the ones that prove us wrong

Community

Showing up, in person, in the places we live.

  • Guest lectures, office hours, and builder nights at the Garage
  • Hackathons with real problems and real mentors
  • Projects in service of the neighbourhood: charities, food banks, and the offices that help people pay their bills
  • Train-the-trainer paths through the 🤫 Academy
What we promise

Promises we make in public.

  1. 01

    Faculty publish freely

    We never ask a researcher to delay, soften, or bury a finding. If our work fails a test, we want to know, and so should everyone else.

  2. 02

    IP stays clean

    What each side brings, each side keeps. Anything new is worked out in good faith, through the university's own technology transfer office.

  3. 03

    Students come first

    Every engagement has to be worth it for a student: mentorship, real data, published work, or a path to a job. Paid work is paid properly.

  4. 04

    No data broker behaviour, ever

    Anything that touches a joint project is consent-first, with a receipt for every access. That is the whole point of the company.

  5. 05

    Given, not sold

    🤫 Agent One is free to every American, students included. We never sell anyone's data, their attention, or their contacts.

How to start

Start small. Earn the rest.

Ways to work together, in order of commitment. Start anywhere. Most great partnerships start with the first.

  1. 1

    A conversation

    Coffee at the Garage, a lab visit, a guest lecture, a paper read together. No paperwork.

  2. 2

    A student project

    One team, one real problem, one term. We bring the data, the mentorship, and a letter of recommendation.

  3. 3

    Sponsored research

    A faculty-led project on a question we define together, usually 12 to 18 months, with one or two PhD students.

  4. 4

    A named fellowship

    Funding for one PhD student a year, in an area we both care about.

  5. 5

    A multi-year agreement

    Several faculty, clear IP terms, and an annual review. This is how our signed labs work today.

  6. 6

    An advisory seat

    One or two faculty with a standing voice in where our research and product go next.

We fund the engineering and the students' time. We never ask for free labour.

Where we are today

The honest list.

Signed

Our partners. Each has a signed agreement.

  • Stony Brook University🇺🇸 Stony Brook, NY
  • Purdue University🇺🇸 West Lafayette, IN
  • IIT Kharagpur🇮🇳 Kharagpur, India
  • IIT Bombay🇮🇳 Mumbai, India
  • IIT Madras🇮🇳 Chennai, India
The labs and the people behind them
In active pursuit

Working together toward a partnership. Not partners yet.

  • Stanford University🇺🇸 Stanford, CA

    Human-centered AI, privacy and data policy, and applied cryptography.

  • University of California, Berkeley🇺🇸 Berkeley, CA

    Privacy law and policy, secure systems, and confidential computing.

  • University of Washington🇺🇸 Seattle, WA

    Security and privacy, technology policy, and on-device intelligence.

  • Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi

    Privacy-preserving machine learning and multilingual language technology.

Starting at home

We start where we live.

Proximity compounds. A student can walk in on a Thursday afternoon, and a professor can visit for the price of a coffee. So we begin in our own neighbourhoods, then go everywhere.

Schools we would be honoured to build with. None of them is a partner today.

🇺🇸 Kirkland and Seattle

Washington

Home of the Kirkland Garage at 1021 5th St W, where the company started. The University of Washington is fifteen minutes away.

  • Lake Washington Institute of TechnologyTechnology college

    A public technical college here in Kirkland, with professional-technical programs and applied bachelor's degrees.

  • DigiPen Institute of TechnologyTechnology college

    A Redmond institute devoted to computer science, game development, and digital art.

  • Bellevue CollegeCommunity college

    A public college on the Eastside offering associate and bachelor's degrees.

  • Cascadia CollegeCommunity college

    A community college in Bothell that shares its campus with the University of Washington Bothell.

  • Seattle UniversityBusiness school

    A Jesuit university in Seattle, home to the Albers School of Business and Economics.

  • Northeastern University, SeattleResearch university

    Northeastern's Seattle campus, with graduate programs in computing and technology.

🇺🇸 Tampa Bay

Florida

Florida has been home to our principal office since April 2026.

  • University of South FloridaResearch university

    A public research university in Tampa, with a campus in St. Petersburg.

  • The University of TampaBusiness school

    A private university in Tampa, home to the Sykes College of Business.

  • St. Petersburg CollegeCommunity college

    A public college in Pinellas County offering associate and bachelor's degrees.

🇺🇸 Stony Brook and Long Island

New York

Home of our signed research lab with Stony Brook University.

  • Farmingdale State CollegeTechnology college

    A SUNY college of applied science and technology on Long Island.

  • Suffolk County Community CollegeCommunity college

    A SUNY community college serving Suffolk County.

🇮🇳 Pune

Maharashtra, India

Where part of our engineering team works, a few hours from our signed lab at IIT Bombay.

  • COEP Technological UniversityTechnology college

    One of India's oldest engineering institutions, now a technological university.

  • Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyTechnology college

    An engineering college focused on computer and information technology.

  • Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityResearch university

    Pune's public state university.

  • IISER PuneResearch university

    An Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, devoted to research and teaching in the sciences.

  • Symbiosis International UniversityBusiness school

    A Pune university whose schools include the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management.

  • FLAME UniversityBusiness school

    A Pune university known for liberal education, with a school of business.

🇦🇪 The UAE

Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah

Home of our UAE Garage in Dubai.

  • Khalifa UniversityResearch university

    A leading science-and-technology university in the region - engineering, AI, robotics, and advanced research - and the first UAE institution to enter the global top 150.

  • NYU Abu DhabiResearch university

    A global liberal-arts-and-sciences campus with strong computer science and computer engineering, and a master's in interdisciplinary data science and AI.

  • United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)Research university

    The UAE's oldest and flagship national university, with broad engineering, computing, and science research across the country's priorities.

  • American University of Sharjah (AUS)Technology college

    A well-regarded university with strong engineering and computer science programs and an international student body.

  • University of SharjahResearch university

    A large public research university with growing computing, engineering, and applied-AI research.

Described with public information and genuine admiration. Naming a school implies no partnership, affiliation, or endorsement, and each links to its own site as the source of truth. If you would like your school described differently, or not listed at all, write to partners@hushh.ai and we will change it.

For students

Come build with us.

Real work, paid properly, with your name on it. The best of what you make should be yours to show the world.

Paid work at the Garage

Internships and the Garage Residency in Kirkland, paid properly, on work that ships.

Research with our labs

Our signed labs take on students for real research. Ask the lab, and we will make the introduction.

A project with your name on it

Capstones and student projects on real problems, with mentors who have shipped at scale, and credit that is yours.

Your own agent, free

🤫 Agent One is free to every American, students included. Your data stays yours.

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With gratitude

To the people who teach.

Everything we build stands on something somebody taught first. Our faculty directory celebrates the professors of the world's great universities, each with a cited source, and each removable on request.

The faculty directoryOur signed labsGratitude
Start a conversation

Tell us where you would like to begin.

Your school, what you teach, research, or study, and where on the ladder you would like to start. Faculty, deans, career offices, and students are all welcome.

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