Collaboration.Ai
Software that helps people build networks, develop ideas, and work together.
Openworklab
Experiment 007Rev. 2026.07
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/ The Collaboration Canvas
Technology is scaling exponentially. How do we scale collaboration without losing our humanity?
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If you had a quantum-powered digital twin tomorrow, what would you protect for your soul — and what would you offload to the network?
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/ Synthesis
“I believe a handshake or a hug can carry more human meaning than a full day of computation across the planet.”
Brandon Klein
You chose to protect what makes you, you and to offload what a network does better.
At Openworklab we don't speculate on this balance. we build it. Through rapid experimentation, quantum-secure infrastructure and advanced AI frameworks, we design the ecosystem where humans and agents work as peers.
01
Quantum & AI
Powering agent-to-agent and human-to-agent intelligence at the edge of what's computable.
02
Blockchain
Securing identity, provenance and trust across a multi-agent world.
03
Human Labs
Rapid behavioral experiments that keep computing human-first.
/ Gateway
The future of work isn't artificial.
It's collaborative.
Ready to join the lab?
Projects, books & communities
Collaborating across teams.
Innovation starts when teams connect what they know with who they know. Network science brings the knowledge graph and relationship graph together. Collaboration turns those connections into work.
An early OpenWorkLab experiment / 2016
I started an AI company in 2016 to explore how people connect and build teams. Plenty of people thought I was crazy. That experiment became Collaboration.Ai.
Brandon Klein
01 / Now
Current projects
United We Transform
Tools, exercises, and evidence for gatherings that produce something useful.
Stand Up to Food Allergies
A paddleboard gathering supporting children with food allergies.
We Are So
Thoughtful AI for family trips, with a public preview to explore.
Educated Change
Educated Change helps organizations adopt responsible AI, strengthen leadership reputation, and manage change.
02 / Print & practice
Books
Facilitating Collaboration
Notes on Facilitation for Experienced Collaborators
The craft of helping people think, decide and do useful work together.
United We Transform
A Practitioner’s Guide to Solving for Clarity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
A practical approach to clarity and collaboration when humans and AI work together.
03 / Archive & lineage
Past work
Healing Online
An early UK natural-health community connecting people with practitioners, products and information.
The General Store DAO: the vision
Brandon presents the retail DAO vision at DAOfest Berlin, exploring shared ownership, community and a different way to work.
What Are We Doing Here?
Three brothers and a cousin travel from Cairo to Cape Town. A documentary questioning poverty, aid, and development.
theDifference a2c
Collective strategy and facilitation, built together as theDifference Consulting. Partner and Global Lead, Future of Work.
The General Store DAO
A real-world experiment in shared ownership, community and a different way to work. The films, experiments and lessons are preserved.
OWL Environment DAO
An NSF-invited research proposal exploring community ownership, carbon sequestration and reputation-based governance.
Everybody for Themselves
What if buying a business book was the beginning of the work? Developed with Greg Lindsay, this unpublished proposal challenged the one-way advice model. Readers and contributors would share practical tools, connect with one another and shape an evolving body of work. The draft explored serendipity, collective intelligence, cooperatives and DAOs.
Proposal and draft contents developed. Concept cover newly created for this archive.
Selected roles, communities & collaborations
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UnitedHealth Group & Optum
Chief Collaboration Officer
As Chief Collaboration Officer at UnitedHealth Group, helped healthcare teams work across organizational boundaries. Earlier work included leading collaboration at Optum.
Healthcare leadership - 02
Accountable Care Organizations & Obamacare
Healthcare design and implementation
Helped healthcare teams respond to the Affordable Care Act, including patient-centered planning, accountable care governance and new ways of working together.
Includes ACO governance work in Tucson - 03
The Value Web & MG Taylor
Community and practice
A practice rooted in MG Taylor's DesignShop approach and built through The Value Web's community of collaborative designers and facilitators.
DesignShop practice since 1996 - 04
World Economic Forum
Davos, Young Global Leaders & Global Shapers
Facilitated at Davos and worked with the Young Global Leaders and Global Shapers communities. Combining collaboration design, network science and software to help people find one another and build together.
Davos / Young Global Leaders / Global ShapersRead the Fast Company story - 05
G7 & G20
Network science & machine learning
International collaboration using network science and machine learning at the G7 in Germany and the G20 in Buenos Aires.
Germany / Buenos Aires - 06
World Bank Group & African Union
Collaboration across Africa
Dozens of engagements with the World Bank Group, alongside work with the African Union. Connecting teams and perspectives across Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa and Egypt.
Kenya / Côte d’Ivoire / South Africa / Egypt - 07
AFWERX
Collaboration, innovation & Fast Company recognition
Helped build AFWERX's innovation community through facilitation, design and software. AFWERX ranked No. 16 on Fast Company's 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators list in 2020.
No. 16100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, 2020No. 16 / 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators / 2020Read the Air Force announcement - 08
Duke University
Fuqua School of Business & Corporate Education
Taught at the Fuqua School of Business and later wrote about human and AI collaboration, including Smarter Together for Duke Corporate Education’s Dialogue.
Teaching / Writing / Human and AI collaborationRead Smarter Together