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Overview
Ought is a research laboratory studying how to decompose reasoning into supervisable steps. Its work on process supervision led to the research assistant Elicit. The organisation focuses on making machine reasoning transparent.
News
Ought has spun off Elicit
Ought has spun off Elicit as a public benefit corporation, selling its IP and transferring most of its staff. The decision to sell the IP was made by an independent board of directors (Owain Evans, Paul Christiano, and Owen Cotton-Barratt), without confli
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AI Safety Needs Great Product Builders
In his AI Safety Needs Great Engineers post, Andy Jones explains how software engineers can reduce the risks of unfriendly artificial intelligence. Even without deep ML knowledge, these developers can work effectively on the challenges involved in buildin
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A Library and Tutorial for Factored Cognition with Language Models
We want to advance process-based supervision for language models. To make it easier for others to contribute to that goal, we've released code for writing compositional language model programs and a tutorial that explains how to get started: The Interacti
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How to use Elicit responsibly
Elicit has gotten exciting coverage on Twitter the last few days, leading to an influx of new users 1, 2, 3. Welcome! We're so excited to have you and grateful for your interest. Alongside the overwhelmingly positive response, some people wisely pointed o
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The Plan for Elicit
Ought is an applied machine learning lab. We're building Elicit, the AI research assistant. Our mission is to automate and scale open-ended reasoning. To get there, we train language models by supervising reasoning processes, not outcomes. This is better
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Technologies
Management
Outlook
Stack modernity
64/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Outlook
3 jobs
Required
$34k
-58% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Outlook
1%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
Outlook
Sep 2026
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
3
3 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~12 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Administrative
100% ▲
Actively hiring for Administrative (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Outlook to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
11
Hiring now
0
Countries
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New York
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New York
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Nevada
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New Orleans, LA
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Denver
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Detroit, MI
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Metro Legal Services MN
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San Antonio, TX
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Richmond, VA
Southfield
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Southfield, MI