2050 Labs
One thesis. Multiple contexts. Many experiments.
Studio thesis
The infrastructure is dated—recruitment intel scattered across platforms, family records buried in systems, vendor histories hidden behind paywalls. Not always bad actors. Often just legacy plumbing.
We ship focused products that test whether AI can rebuild how information flows in specific contexts. Some work. Some don't. All of them teach us something worth keeping.
Ventures
Readout
Building for the Buyers
The primary focus. Building for the buyers.
Ignition
Founders Forum
The Honest LLM for Founders.
ARK
Contextual Emergency Routing
Multi Channel Information Routing for the moments you go offline.
WhisperVault
Assets, Lessons and Stories
Emotional continuity and legacy platform.
Neural Haystack
Career and Recruitment agent
An AI version that is 70% as good as the world's best retained search professionals.
About US
Nik is the Operating Partner and CEO of 2050 Labs. For over a decade, he has worked across EMEA and APAC with enterprises and governments, leading GTM teams inside cloud, data, and AI vendor ecosystems — gaining firsthand exposure to how buyers actually evaluate and adopt technology. That perspective led to Readout: a buyer-run intelligence network built to replace sales noise with real peer experience.
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