MuseMatrix

We're the pipeline between disciplines.

A build-first fellowship where scientists and technical talent from different disciplines learn each other's fields and ship working products.

Bring a frontier question, a weird stack, or a lab-grade problem.

MuseMatrix fellows during an in-person gathering
MuseMatrix fellows during a workshop session
MuseMatrix team collaborating during the fellowship
MuseMatrix project moment in progress
MuseMatrix fellows building together
MuseMatrix fellowship session

How it works

24 weeks. Three phases.

One cohort. One frontier question. Six months to build. Fellows learn each other's fields, then build together.

01
8 weeks

Foundations

8 weeks. Fellows from different disciplines teach each other their fields. Together they map the problem space and decide what to build.

02
16 weeks

Build and ship

16 weeks. Prototype, test with real users, break it, rebuild it. No slides. Working code and working systems.

03
Launch

Demo day and public release

Live demo of the working product. Open repos, reproducible documentation, and a contributor roadmap so the project outlives the cohort.

Question-led cohorts

Every cohort starts with a new question.

We don't run the same programme twice. Each cohort is designed around a frontier question that pulls in whichever disciplines are needed to answer it. Sometimes that's two fields. Sometimes it's five. The question decides who's in the room.

Current cohorts

Current cohort AI x science

AI x Scientists

Machine learning paired with biology, chemistry, physics, and other deep domain expertise to build useful science with teeth.

  • Discovery
  • Translation
  • Working systems
Current cohort Neuro systems

Neurotech

Interfaces, sensing, decoding, cognition, and brain-machine systems built with technical depth.

  • Interfaces
  • Sensing
  • Embodiment
Current cohort Formal reasoning

AI x Mathematicians

Formal reasoning, proof, verification, and mathematical discovery explored with AI systems.

  • Proof
  • Formalism
  • Reasoning

Past cohorts have explored privacy-enhancing tech x biology, cryptography x hardware engineering, and more. Upcoming themes are announced each cycle.

Fellow builds

What fellows have built.

Every project here came out of a cohort. People walked in from different disciplines, spent six months learning and building together, and shipped something that didn't exist before.

Built by fellows

Causality Network

VC-backed spinout building trusted hardware for secure autonomous biology. Born from Cohort 1 when cryptographers, hardware engineers, and scientists were put in the same room.

Built by fellows

Castalia

A DeSci network-state experiment seeded through a pop-up city in Mexico.

Built by fellows

Proof of Learning Protocol

Verifiable skill acquisition and contribution trails.

The network

The work keeps compounding. So do the people.

After the fellowship.

Graduates come back as mentors. They run their own cohort nodes. They start companies. They bring what they learned back to their careers and see everything differently. The fellowship changes what people think is possible for them.

The network.

Fellows get fast intros, lab access, pilot opportunities, and peer reviewers through a founding team with deep roots across DeSci, crypto, and frontier science. The curriculum evolves with every cohort. What Cohort 1 learned feeds Cohort 5. Partners span science, crypto, technical, university, and community lab ecosystems.

IRL nodes

Where we are.

London / Mexico City / San Francisco

Dubai, Tokyo, Zurich, and Lagos opening Q4 2025.

Ready to found something, or just want to explore while keeping your day job? Either way, you'll leave with a different trajectory.

Apply for the next cohort or sponsor a brief.

Want to sponsor a cohort or request a project? Get in touch.