# Our Work

Ocean Agentics organizes its work across three connected units: Research, Technology, and Partnerships. Together, they help translate ocean-governance needs into methods, prototype tools, and mission-aligned collaboration.

## Three units working together

We structure the work this way because meaningful progress depends on more than a single tool or analysis. Strong ideas need research grounding, technical execution, and the relationships and funding that help them move forward.

## Workstreams

### Research

Applied research partnerships that connect governance questions to practical methods, technical workflows, and publishable inquiry.

### Technology

Prototype tools and agentic workflows that explore how ocean-governance concepts can become usable systems in practice.

### Partnerships

Strategic relationships and co-funding pathways that help mission-aligned work move toward real-world use.

## Research

We collaborate with researchers, postdoctoral scholars, and academic teams on applied questions that benefit from technical methodology, workflow design, and practical demonstrations. Our aim is to help make ambitious governance-related questions more testable and more useful.

### Academic collaboration

We support research partnerships that can lead to papers, methods, or demonstrations with real relevance to ocean governance.

### Method-building

We contribute workflows and technical approaches that help investigate emerging implementation questions under the [BBNJ Agreement](https://www.un.org/bbnjagreement/en).

### Grant-aligned technical work

Where appropriate, we can be included in funded research as a technical workstream supporting practical methodology or prototype development.

## Technology

We build prototype technologies that explore how AI, interoperable workflows, and practical tools can support ocean-governance goals. This is where concepts become concrete and where we test what is useful, feasible, and scalable.

### Clearing-house-related workflows

We are exploring how technical workflows can support the kinds of information-management and process needs that may emerge around [UN BBNJ Treaty](https://www.un.org/bbnjagreement/en) implementation, without implying official implementation responsibility.

### Agentic orchestration

We investigate how agents and orchestration layers can help users work across complex datasets, requirements, and multi-step governance tasks.

### Prototype use cases

Areas of interest include MPA-support tools, safeguards and processes, methodology support, and other practical systems that can help concepts move toward usable form.

## Partnerships

We build the relationships, funding pathways, and external momentum needed to move mission-aligned research and technology forward. This includes strategic outreach, collaboration development, and preparing concepts and prototypes for real-world engagement.

### Ecosystem relationships

We work across the broader ocean data, science, and governance ecosystem to help align technical work with real implementation needs.

### Co-funding and grants

We are interested in co-funding models and mission-aligned grants that support prototype development and practical technical exploration.

### Storytelling and demonstration

We prepare concepts and prototypes for moments where they can be clearly communicated, demonstrated, and used to build durable support.

## How the units connect

Research helps define the questions. Technology helps test the answers. Partnerships helps create the alignment and funding needed to keep the work moving.

- Research surfaces methods and inquiry.
- Technology turns concepts into prototypes.
- Partnerships helps move the work toward practical use.

## Interested in Our Work?

Eyebrow: Turn concepts into practice

We welcome conversations about research collaborations, prototype work, strategic partnerships, and funding opportunities that can help move ocean-governance concepts into practice.

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