What we would like to build with the University of Washington: research on personal agents people can trust, research on investing people can check, and paid work for UW students without leaving home.
We are talking with people at UW and would like those conversations to become a research partnership. Until an agreement is signed, UW is not a partner, and we will not call it one.
This page is ours, not the University's. It describes what we would like to build and does not imply that the University of Washington endorses 🤫 hussh or any of our products. Where we name a UW school, lab or office, it is to say where the work would live.
Our home is in Kirkland. A student can spend a summer at the Garage without moving house, and a professor can visit for the price of a coffee. Proximity compounds, and nothing else we do can substitute for it.
Consent-first agents need two kinds of rigour: security, privacy and policy on one side, and disciplined quantitative finance on the other. Very few universities have both at world-class depth. UW does, on the same campus.
UW's Tech Policy Lab was founded to bring technologists, lawyers and the public interest into one room. Making personal data something a person owns and controls, governed by consent, is exactly that kind of work.
This region built the cloud, modern online shopping, and a great deal of modern AI. Giving people real ownership of their data in the age of agents belongs here too.
One umbrella, two groups of faculty, each engaging on their own terms. It is how our signed labs work today, and it avoids forcing overlap where there is none.
🤫 Agent One acts for one person, on hardware they own, under their consent. The hard questions are about trust: how consent is asked, proven, and kept.
An agent acting for a family will be asked about money. The research question is whether simple, rules-based investing can be tested openly, explained plainly, and audited by the person it serves.
Internships and the Garage Residency in Kirkland, fifteen minutes from campus. Paid properly, on work that ships.
One team, one real problem, one quarter, in either track. We bring the data and the mentorship; the credit is yours.
Work with PhD students on questions from both tracks, published on the normal academic timeline, whatever the results.
🤫 Agent One is free to every American, students included. Your data stays yours.
The same ladder every university gets, in order of commitment. We would be glad to start with the first step.
Coffee at the Garage, a lab visit, a guest lecture, a paper read together. No paperwork.
One team, one real problem, one term. We bring the data, the mentorship, and a letter of recommendation.
A faculty-led project on a question we define together, usually 12 to 18 months, with one or two PhD students.
Funding for one PhD student a year, in an area we both care about.
Several faculty, clear IP terms, and an annual review. This is how our signed labs work today.
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.
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.
What each side brings, each side keeps. Anything new is worked out in good faith, through the university's own technology transfer office.
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.
Anything that touches a joint project is consent-first, with a receipt for every access. That is the whole point of the company.
🤫 Agent One is free to every American, students included. We never sell anyone's data, their attention, or their contacts.
Sponsored research, IP and licensing go through the University's own offices, including CoMotion, on the University's terms.
Any advisory role or compensation for faculty follows UW's conflict-of-interest rules, disclosed in advance and in writing.
We never ask for student records. Anything a student shares with us is theirs to share, and theirs to withdraw.
Forty-five minutes with faculty in each track and with the Tech Policy Lab, on campus or at the Garage in Kirkland. No deck. A whiteboard.
In each track, who might want to spend a summer on one of these questions. Paid properly.
Whether a multi-track agreement belongs with CoMotion, the College of Engineering, the Office of Research, or somewhere else. We will follow UW's lead.
The same approach already works with our 5 signed university partners. See the honest list
Your department or lab, what you teach, research or study, and which track interests you. Faculty, staff and students are all welcome, and every message is read by a person.