RRoadmap
A sequence of things that have to be shown, in order.
Not a funding timeline. Each stage exists because the previous one produced a reason for it, and the later stages are explicitly conditional — a technically interesting result is not a product, and a product is not a company.
- Stage 01Technical study: reduced-sensor EEG-EMG decodingFix the research question, select datasets, build the pipeline, and measure how decoding degrades as the array shrinks toward an ear-based configuration.2026 —In progress
- Stage 02Adoption-focused follow-up studyTake the measured trade-offs into a study of what people will accept: calibration burden, comfort, visibility, privacy, price.After stage 1Planned
- Stage 03Non-invasive BCI monographA long-form synthesis of the field, released in parts. Doubles as the citation backbone for the rest of the project.2026–28Exploratory
- Stage 04Prototype architecture and component testingSpecify and bench-test the sensing path: contacts, amplifier, ADC, power. No enclosure, no wearing, just whether the electronics can see anything.Not startedPlanned
- Stage 05Ear-based prototype iterationPhysical builds with version pages, each preserving what the previous one got wrong.Not startedPlanned
- Stage 06Competitions, symposiums, external validationPut the work in front of people who are paid to find holes in it.Ongoing where relevantPlanned
- Stage 07Usability and real-world testingOnly after there is hardware worth testing, and only within whatever ethics and safety review applies.Not startedPlanned
- Stage 08Product definitionReached only if the evidence supports it. A technically interesting result is not a product.ConditionalExploratory
- Stage 09Funding and accelerator explorationLast, not first. Deliberately placed after evidence rather than before it.ConditionalExploratory
Completed — evidence exists and is linked.
In progress — active, with a defined next milestone.
Planned — intended, not started.
Exploratory — an interesting direction, not a commitment.