Our Research

GSSF Press learns by doing: we try an idea in GSSF, its programs, or this publication, write down what we learn, and teach it. Each area we are testing is a live experiment, run by ProfessorLabs, the research arm of the Global Student Startup Foundation. Status: Running (tested every day), Early (just begun).

What we are testing

1. AI Definitions (Running)
2. AI Patterns (Early)
3. Agentic Organization (fully agentic) (Early)
4. Agentic Organization (retrofitting) (Running)
5. Agentic Universities (Early)
6. Agent Arena (Running)
7. ProfessorLabs class labs (Running)

1. AI Definitions

The question. Can a plain, sourced reference become the canonical source for the AI words leaders see in the news?

Where we test it. AI Definitions. Status: Running

2. AI Patterns

The question. What are the named, repeatable patterns of organizations of people and agents?

Where we test it. We collect the patterns GSSF and this publication use as we use them, and rationalize them into one catalog. Status: Early

3. Agentic Organization (fully agentic)

The question. Can an organization be run by agents, each kind of work earning its freedom from its record, with a person in the middle?

Where we test it. This publication. Status: Early

4. Agentic Organization (retrofitting)

The question. Can an existing organization of people be retrofitted with agents and a knowledge core that learns every day, with agents doing the labor and people deciding?

Where we test it. GSSF itself, and each person's agent. Status: Running

5. Agentic Universities

The question. Can a university course run as an agentic organization, with a course agent and learning-assistant agents doing the legwork and the professor deciding?

Where we test it. Mike Lee's alpha courses, Fall 2026: a course agent prepares each class with him, and learning-assistant agents work beside the class. Status: Early

6. Agent Arena

The question. Do tournaments between student-built agents teach how agents behave and fail?

Where we test it. Tournaments in Mike Lee's alpha course, Fall 2026. Status: Running

7. ProfessorLabs class labs

The question. Can hosted AI labs let every student build with AI, whatever their means?

Where we test it. Mike Lee's alpha courses, Fall 2026. Status: Running

Coming next

• One review for every pitch: Can pitches from WhatsApp, email, and chat reach one review, each with a dossier, with no forms?

What we learn goes into our books and this publication, mistakes included. Our standards · About us