Cohort 01 · Apply

Bring one real idea.
Leave with shipped research.

One application. Five minutes. We read everything and respond within 10 days. You focus on the research — we handle funding, team, distribution, and publishing.

Cohort 01

Opens June 2026

Length 6 weeks

Format Remote

Cost Free

Application received

You're on the list.
We'll read it this week.

Thank you for applying to Zentri Research Cohort 01. You'll hear from us within 10 days at the email you provided.

Reference · ZR-01-0000

§ 01

You

Who's applying.

Full name *

Email *

Location — city, country

Current role — one line

§ 02

Your research

The thesis and the track.

Pick a track *

Architectural InnovationBeyond Transformers. Recurrence, state-space, causal structure. Transformer OptimizationEfficient attention, throughput, inference, quantization. AI AgentsPlanning, tools, long-horizon memory, real-world action. InterpretabilityMechanistic circuits, probes, feature analysis. Experimental AI IdeasThe weird stuff — proposals too strange for a standard lab.

Research idea *

The best applications read like a honest thesis statement, not a pitch deck.

Why this, why now — optional

§ 03

Proof of work

Links to anything we should read. GitHub, arXiv, Zenodo, blog posts, demos — add as many as you want.

Links * — at least one

GitHub repo · arXiv paper · Zenodo dataset · Google Scholar · personal site · blog · live demo · Kaggle · HuggingFace — whatever shows the work.

§ 04

Collaboration

How you'll work with a team.

Hours per week you can commit *

Preferred team role

Anything else we should know — optional

§ 05

Commit

Before you send.

I'll ship, publicly.

Everything produced during the cohort — code, data, writeup — goes public under an open license at week six. Authorship stays with me and my team.

I'll show up weekly.

A weekly public progress update is non-negotiable. Seven days of silence means I leave, so the rest of the team can keep moving.

I understand the deal.

Zentri Research handles funding, team management, marketing, distribution, and publishing (arXiv + Zentri Research journal). I focus on the research itself.

We read every application personally. Decisions within 10 days — no form letters.

Bring one real idea.Leave with shipped research.

You're on the list.We'll read it this week.

You

Your research

Proof of work

Collaboration

Commit

Bring one real idea.
Leave with shipped research.

You're on the list.
We'll read it this week.