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AI labs and research
Frontier research talent, concentrated in a handful of countries, on timelines nobody can move.
What is different about this vertical
- Evidence collection begins at offer, not at filing. Six months of drift costs more than the legal fees.
- Publication, citation, press and judging invitations are the load-bearing evidence, and they sit largely outside your organisation's control.
- Country of birth determines the queue. Two equally strong hires are not equally fast.
- Research hires often already satisfy several criteria — the work is organising the record, not generating it.
What that means for your process
Evidence collection begins at offer rather than at filing. The load-bearing items — publications, citation records, judging invitations, press about the individual — sit largely outside your organisation's control, which means they cannot be produced on demand and have to be gathered while the ordinary work continues.
Country of birth determines the queue. A plan that does not model it will be wrong for some of your people for reasons unrelated to merit.
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