For frontier AI labs

The next breakthrough in AI, and the wisdom to make it safe.

We help AI teams reach new ideas faster and see risks earlier, by adding a source of insight most labs have never used: trained human consciousness.

No access to models or data 6-week confidential pilot Evaluated against your own evidence
The questions on your desk

Two questions decide the future of every AI lab.

How do we get to the next breakthrough first? And how do we make sure it is safe? Here is where we come in.

What you gain

Faster to the frontier. Safer when you get there.

Speed and safety are usually treated as a trade-off. Both depend on the same scarce resource: clear insight into what is not yet visible. That is what we work on.

Accelerate innovation

New directions, earlier.

We aim to give your researchers fresh angles on problems that have resisted ordinary effort.

  • New hypotheses and research directions to test
  • Earlier signals on which bets to place or drop
  • Teams that think more clearly and burn out less
Strengthen safety

Blind spots, surfaced.

We aim to add one more independent check before the decisions that matter most.

  • Risk scenarios your red-team may not have considered
  • A clearer, felt sense of the values a system should embody
  • Decisions taken from calm rather than from race pressure
Services

Four ways to work with us.

Each one can start as a small, confidential pilot. None of them needs access to your models, code or data.

A person on a mountain ridge looking over a sea of clouds toward the dawn
InnovationSafety

Foresight Sessions

You bring one concrete question: a stuck research problem, a capability threshold, a release decision. A trained group works on it in deep meditative inquiry, and you receive a written insight report to weigh against your own analysis.

“What are we missing, and where should we look next?”

Format
Question → sessions → written report
Pilot
One question, about 6 weeks
A calm meditation room with floor cushions inside a modern tech office
Innovation

Field Labs for AI teams

A dedicated meditation field held continuously for one research or safety team, connecting the team to the highest future potential of its work. This is our Innovation Labs approach for organisations, now focused on AI.

“How do we get our team unstuck and inspired?”

Format
Continuous field + monthly check-ins
Pilot
3 months
Two researchers in dialogue over notebooks in a bright library
Safety

Research Collaboration

A joint inquiry into consciousness, values and wisdom traditions as input to alignment and model-character work, delivered as workshops, dialogues and co-authored writing. We bring the contemplative side; your researchers bring the technical one.

“What does it actually mean for a model to be wise and good?”

Format
Workshops, dialogues, papers
Pilot
One workshop series
A software engineer meditating on the floor beside glowing monitors at night
InnovationSafety

Practice for Builders

Meditation and inner-practice programmes for the people who build frontier AI: clarity under pressure, ethical sensing and recovery from the intensity of the work. For individual researchers or team cohorts.

“How do we stay clear-headed while moving this fast?”

Format
Live online sessions + retreats
Pilot
8-week cohort
The pilot

Six weeks, one question, results you can judge.

Small enough to approve quickly, structured enough to evaluate honestly. We treat what emerges as hypotheses to test, never as instructions to follow.

  1. Week 1

    Frame

    A call to agree on one real question your team is holding.

  2. Week 1–2

    Field

    We open and hold a dedicated meditative field for it.

  3. Week 2–4

    Inquiry

    Trained practitioners work with the question in deep presence.

  4. Week 5

    Report

    Insights written down plainly, without mystification.

  5. Week 6

    Review

    Together we check them against your own evidence.

What you receive

  • Insight reportHypotheses, directions and risk signals, in plain language.
  • Debrief sessionA live walkthrough with your team, open to hard questions.
  • Evaluation sheetA simple way to track over the following months which insights held up.
  • Clear next stepA recommendation to continue, adjust or stop. No lock-in.
Our approach

Why consciousness? Because ideas arrive before they are built.

Many breakthroughs begin as a sudden clarity: a picture of what could be, seen before anyone knows how to build it. We treat that moment as something that can be cultivated, focused on a real question and shared. It is the same capacity your best researchers rely on, practised with discipline.

“Is it possible to bring information and impulses from the future into the now? We have been working on this question since 2013.”

A person meditating on a stone terrace, facing the sunrise over a mountain lake
Working hypothesis I

Time

We experience time as a line. In deep meditation it is also experienced as one present moment that holds many possible futures. That is the space we work from.

Working hypothesis II

Innovation

New ideas are not only the result of trial and error. A clear, coherent mind can pick up a future vision and help ground it into structure, decisions and design.

Working hypothesis III

Consciousness

Consciousness is the fabric in which all experience arises. Trained with rigour, the human mind becomes an instrument for exploring that fabric.

Why it is easy to say yes

Low risk to try. Real upside if it works.

We know how unusual this sounds. So we made the first step small, private and measurable.

Portrait of Stephan Oesterreicher, founder of Conscious Innovation Lab
The founder

Stephan Oesterreicher

Founder, Conscious Innovation Lab · Entrepreneur since 2013

Stephan has spent more than a decade building companies where consciousness and technology meet, and he runs them as a hands-on entrepreneur rather than a theorist.

He started by leading silent retreats on Lake Titicaca in 2013 and founded a seminar and travel company in Germany in 2014. He went on to build My Palm Leaf, a fully online service that has reached more than 6,000 clients in 181 countries and 21 languages, run from Estonia with a remote team.

Today his companies run with AI at their core. He designs AI-supported operations, automated client journeys and AI-native products himself. He knows what it takes to ship fast under pressure, and what it takes to stay clear while doing it. That combination is what he brings to AI teams.

Serial entrepreneurBuilder of AI-native businessesRetreat leader since 2013Global team, 21 languages
2013

Meditation Retreat Peru

Monthly silent retreats and spiritual journeys in the Andes.

2014

Seminar & travel company

Founded and ran a seminar and travel business in Germany.

Global

My Palm Leaf

6,000+ clients in 181 countries, 21 languages, fully online.

Now

AI-native ventures

AI-run operations, automated products and AI training for small businesses.

Lineage

More than a decade of practice behind every session.

The lab was conceived on a remote island in Lake Titicaca, at 4,000 metres, during years of silent retreats. Everything we now offer to AI teams grew out of that work.

Stone terraces on an island in Lake Titicaca at sunrise, with the snow-capped Andes beyond
2013first silent retreats in Peru
24/7global online meditation room
6,000+people served through our projects
181countries reached

Meditation Retreat Peru

Monthly silent retreats on a sacred island in Lake Titicaca, where the vision of the lab was first conceived.

meditationretreatperu.com →

Global Online Meditation

A virtual meditation room open to everyone, holding space for the highest future potential of our world.

Conscious Dying

Fields of presence that support people before and after the moment of physical death.

My Palm Leaf

Online readings with authentic Indian palm leaf libraries, an ancient tradition of seeing across time.

mypalmleaf.com →
Questions

Fair questions.

Is this real?

About as real as the vision of the internet was in 1900. We do not ask you to believe anything. We ask you to run one small, documented pilot and judge the results yourself.

How would we know if it worked?

Every insight is written down with a date. Over the following months your team marks which ones led somewhere: a new direction, a risk confirmed, a better decision. That record is the result.

How is this different from a consultant or a meditation app?

A consultant brings existing knowledge, and an app brings relaxation. We bring a trained group working on your specific question through deep meditative inquiry, and a written result you can test.

Do you need access to our models or data?

No. We work with the question, not with your systems. Nothing confidential has to leave your building.

How does this fit next to technical alignment research?

As a complement, never a replacement. We add one more independent source of insight that your researchers can test against their own evidence.

Who does the work?

Every pilot is led by founder Stephan Oesterreicher, an entrepreneur since 2013 who builds AI-run businesses himself, together with a circle of long-term meditation practitioners trained in our retreats and the Global Online Meditation room.

What does a pilot cost?

Pilots are deliberately small and scoped to one question or one team. We agree the scope and fee in a first conversation.

Start a pilot

Bring us the question your team cannot crack.

A research direction that is stuck, a risk you cannot quite name, a decision coming up. Send us a few lines and we will reply personally within two working days.

info@consciousinnovationlab.com · Conscious Innovation Lab OÜ · Tööstuse tn 48, 10416 Tallinn, Estonia