Behind every AGD Exploratory breakthrough is a team of people—not just prototypes. Klover.ai built this group intentionally to be different from a typical R&D team. Here, we believe that diverse thinking leads to more innovative outcomes. To build imaginative, human-centered AI, we need imaginative, human-centered thinkers.

Who makes up the team?

Cognitive Scientists & Neuroscientists:
These experts study how humans think, decide, and feel. They help shape questions around how AI should work with—not replace—human decision-making. Their input guides projects like subconscious signal modeling and ethical agent behavior.

AI Researchers & Engineers:
We work with experienced AI professionals—from symbolic AI pioneers to deep learning specialists. They help turn bold ideas into working prototypes. We look for people who understand both tech and other fields like psychology, economics, or systems design. That mix is key to building smarter, more adaptable systems.

Creative Thinkers – Artists, Designers, and Storytellers:
AGD Exploratory also brings in people from creative fields: digital artists, UX designers, architects, and science fiction writers. They help imagine new ways users might interact with AI, design more intuitive interfaces (like G.U.M.M.I.™), and create human-centered use cases. An architect might reimagine city planning tools; a storyteller might teach an agent how to explain its choices clearly. Their ideas help us make technology that feels more natural and human.

What connects everyone? A shared curiosity.
We recruit people from outside the usual tech world. It’s common to see a poet, a programmer, and a policy analyst in the same brainstorm. This mix leads to new questions—and unexpected answers. We host “curiosity workshops” where team members teach each other new ideas, like quantum cognition or indigenous decision-making.

This approach reflects a bigger belief at Klover.ai: real innovation doesn’t come from specialists alone. As our CEO says, it takes polymaths, poets, and pioneers to build the future. We encourage team members to rethink what they know and keep an open, beginner’s mindset. That’s why our lab feels as much like a think tank or art studio as it does a research hub.

Solving the challenge of AGD™ isn’t just technical—it’s imaginative. That’s exactly what AGD Exploratory is built to do.

The team is a cross-disciplinary melting pot:

Cognitive Scientists & Neuroscientists: Experts who study human decision-making, perception, and brain signals are integral members of the Brain Trust. They help frame research questions around how AI can complement (rather than replace) human cognition. Their insights guide experiments like subconscious signal modeling or ethical AI behavior – ensuring our AGD systems are aligned with how real people think and feel.

Veteran AI Researchers & Engineers: We have seasoned AI experts with experience ranging from symbolic AI in the ’90s to deep learning and reinforcement learning in recent years. These folks provide the technical rigor to turn wild ideas into robust prototypes. Importantly, we seek those with cross-domain fluency – individuals as comfortable discussing psychology or economics as they are optimizing an algorithm. This breadth is crucial when we’re mixing methods (e.g., combining a knowledge graph with a neural net or bringing game theory into an agent negotiation)

Unconventional Creatives – Artists, Designers, Storytellers: Perhaps surprisingly, AGD Exploratory intentionally includes creative professionals like digital artists, user experience designers, even architects and science fiction writers. Why? Because crafting the future of AI isn’t just a technical challenge; it’s an imaginative one. These creatives help envision radically new interfaces (for G.U.M.M.I.), dream up scenarios for agents to tackle (sometimes literally writing narratives for simulation environments), and ensure the design and feel of our systems resonate with humans. An architect’s spatial thinking might inspire a new way to visualize AI-driven city planning; a storyteller might help an agent better explain its decisions through narrative. We’re essentially shaping technology that will interact with society – having perspectives from the arts and humanities keeps our innovations grounded in human context and creativity.

Beyond their domains, what unites this team is a culture of curiosity and polymathy. We actively recruit outside traditional tech circles to bring in unexpected perspectives. It’s not unusual in our lab meetings to have a poet, a programmer, and a policy analyst brainstorming together. The result is that questions get asked that otherwise wouldn’t – “Have we considered how an anthropologist might view this AI’s behavior?” – and solutions emerge that are delightfully non-obvious. The culture encourages continual learning and cross-pollination of ideas. We host internal “curiosity workshops” where one team member might teach others about, say, quantum cognition models or indigenous decision-making practices, just to spark new thinking.

This ethos reflects a broader belief at Klover.ai: the future isn’t built by specialists alone. As our CEO often says, it takes polymaths, poets, and pioneers to push boundaries. AGD Exploratory is the embodiment of that belief. By untraining and retraining ourselves to shed conventional biases (a practice we enforce with new team members, echoing our fast prototyping doctrine), we maintain a beginner’s mind approach to immensely hard problems. The result is a lab that feels as much like an art studio or think-tank as it does a tech incubator. And that is by design – because solving the puzzle of artificial general decision-making will require leaps of imagination akin to artistic creativity, combined with scientific rigor.