A mission control for frontier technology
We survey the landscape for scientific bottlenecks and launch non-profit startups to build the foundational capabilities for technological progress.
What is the future missing?
Essential technologies
Spectacularly good futures are within reach, but only if we mind the gaps.
Scientists need essential technologies to do the groundbreaking research all of us depend on.
Infrastructure
We map what’s missing from the trunk of the tech tree, matching funders and founders to launch teams and bridge those gaps.
After launch, we provide shared operational support so those teams can deliver public goods.
The right questions
We start with questions that most scientists don’t get asked:
What tool would unblock your entire field?
What open dataset would ignite a scaled revolution?
Focused Research Organizations are bridging the gaps.
Each FRO is a time-bound, technically ambitious effort designed to produce high-impact public goods that unblock scientific progress.
FRO Resources
Data, research, and tools from our FROs
Lean FRO • 9.24.2025
Lean Use Cases
A library of use cases for the Lean programming language and proof assistant
E11 Bio • 10.1.2025
PRISM
A platform for self-correcting neuron tracing using simple light microscopes
EvE Bio • 9.5.2025
Pharmome Data Portal
Public, CC BY-NC-SA dataset of drug–target assay results (largest available to public); updated by rolling releases
Cultivarium • 7.1.2024
Organism Portal
One-stop organism portal with actionable data, protocols, and community notes for experimentalists
[C]Worthy • 10.15.2024
OAE Efficiency Map
An interactive tool for exploring the efficiency of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE)
Parallel Squared Technology Institute • 7.6.2022
plexDIA
A multiplexing method that increases proteomics throughput from tiny samples without losing accuracy, enabling fast, high-coverage analysis - even at the single-cell level
Forest Neurotech • 1.22.2025
Forest 1
Wearable whole-brain ultrasound interface enabling functional imaging and neuromodulation in humans
Convergent Resources
Maps & guides for exploration
Announcement, Substack • 4.15.2025
Introducing the Gap Map
Introducing the Gap Map
Today we’re releasing v1.0 of our Fundamental Development Gap Map, a new web portal for exploring the landscape of bottlenecks holding back science and the fundamental technologies to solve them.
Guide • 10.13.2025
Field Notes on Moving Focused Research Organizations Forward
An article in Issues in Science & Technology describing four years of FROs, what we've learned, and what comes next.
Announcement • 10.9.2025
Announcing our new collaboration with ARIA as an Activation Partner
We are thrilled to announce a new collaboration with the Advanced Research and Intervention Agency (ARIA) to launch Focused Research Organizations (FROs) for science and technology in the UK (“FROST UK”).
Announcement • 2.7.2025
Launching Convergent’s Substack: Essential Technology
Today we launched a Convergent Research substack, Essential Technology, because we believe scientific progress is being held back not by a lack of talent — but by missing essential technologies.
We build scientific infrastructure to drive scaled revolutions. Join us:
Submit ideas
Know a gap in science that no one’s solving? Tell us. We’re looking for bold ideas that need new tools, infrastructure, or teams to move forward.
Get involved
We partner with funders who believe in building scientific infrastructure and accelerating bold research.
Essential technologies
Scientists need essential technologies to do the groundbreaking research all of us depend on. Read more on our Substack, Essential Technology.