About
We build the infrastructure research runs on.
Four things, concretely: funding infrastructure, lab access, publishing infrastructure, and jurisdictional structuring for research ventures.
Our mission
To remove the walls between discovery and the people it serves: funding that clears in weeks instead of years, instrument capacity a team can book instead of buy, and publishing that leaves ownership with the author.
Our vision
Research that moves at the speed of the work itself: funded, tested, structured, and published on infrastructure the people doing the work actually control.
HyperLatitude
The regulatory complement to all three pillars
DeScier removes the funding, instrument, and publishing walls. HyperLatitude does not remove the regulatory wall. It gives ventures a choice of regulatory framework, structuring them inside the legitimate jurisdiction whose sandbox actually fits their science, rather than leaving them stuck with whichever regime they happened to be born into.
Same mission, breaking down barriers between discovery and the people it serves, through a different mechanism: framework choice, not framework removal.
Visit HyperLatitudeOperating principles
Six principles the infrastructure enforces
Each one is a mechanism in the stack, not a position on how science ought to work.
Authors keep their copyright
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Publishers require assignment of rights as a condition of publication.
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Authors retain 100% of copyright on every record published through DeSci Reviews.
Review is credited work
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Peer review is anonymous, unpaid, and invisible on a CV.
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Reviewers are named and credited, and their contribution is part of the public record.
Reproducibility is built in
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Methods and data are described in prose and rarely re-runnable.
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Protocols are versioned and citable, datasets are anchored with provenance, and runs are auditable.
Funding is allocated on the work
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Grant cycles run 12+ months and favour institutional track record.
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Matching pools, retroactive grants, and milestone-based release, decided in weeks.
Capacity is shared, not duplicated
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Instruments sit idle inside single institutions while other teams cannot access them.
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Bookable instrument time across a distributed network, priced per use.
Regulatory framework is a choice
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Ventures are stuck with whichever regime they happened to be born into.
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HyperLatitude structures ventures inside the legitimate jurisdiction whose sandbox fits their science.
Build on the DeScier stack
Fund a project, book lab capacity, publish with your copyright intact, or structure your venture in a jurisdiction that fits the science.