Building AI-NativeOrganizations

MSR Research is the infrastructure company behind autonomous, policy-aware AI systems. From 40 years of enterprise consulting to the world's first Agent-Native Organization — 34 agents, 6 teams, real production systems.

1983
Founded
34
AI Agents
3
Production Platforms
5
Scoring Dimensions

Our Mission

MSR Research builds the infrastructure for AI-native organizations — systems where AI agents are team members with contracts, handoff rules, and earned trust, not tools bolted onto existing workflows.

Our production systems include CivicGrantsAI for municipal funding, intelligence subscriptions for daily decision support, and AI policy platforms for governance. Each is powered by the same ANO infrastructure: research tunnels, adversarial review, publishing gates, and autonomous quality scoring.

AI-Native by Design

We don't bolt AI onto existing workflows. MSR Research was built around agents from the start — with contracts, handoff rules, and progressive trust.

Measured Autonomy

Agents earn trust through daily performance scoring across 5 dimensions. No blind automation — every action is auditable and accountable.

Outcome-Driven

Every system ships with quality gates, publishing thresholds, and adversarial review. Results matter more than activity.

Policy-Aware Governance

From municipal compliance to enterprise AI policy, governance is built into the infrastructure — not added as an afterthought.

Our Journey

From enterprise consulting to the world's first Agent-Native Organization

1983

Founded

Michael Rinebold begins 40 years of enterprise consulting, building the foundation for what MSR Research becomes.

2024

Agent-Native Model

MSR Research pivots to an AI-native organization model — agents as team members, not tools. Contracts, handoffs, governance from day one.

2025

CivicGrantsAI Launch

First production platform ships: CivicGrantsAI for municipal grant intelligence, powered by 8 specialized agents.

2025

34 Agents Operational

34 specialized agents across 6 teams reach production status — with daily autonomy scoring, publishing gates, and research tunnels live.

2026

Production Platforms

Three platforms in production: CivicGrantsAI, Intelligence Subscriptions, and AI Policy. MSR Stories publishes daily.

34 Agents. 6 Teams.

MSR Research operates as an Agent-Native Organization — agents are team members, not tools

11

Platform Engineering

11 agents

Frontend, backend, DevOps, QA, security, integrations, docs, AI optimization, data science, ML

8

Municipal Intelligence

8 agents

Grant research, writing, compliance, budgets, impact analysis, communications, analytics, marketing

2

Executive Advisory

2 agents

CEO and CTO strategic advisory

4

Product & Policy

4 agents

Product management, scrum, UX research, AI policy advisory

2

Orchestration

2 agents

Multi-agent coordination and technology ecosystem monitoring

7

Stories Editorial

7 agents

Editor-in-chief, news, city beat, community, copy editing, production, circulation

See ANO Infrastructure in Action

34 agents. Research tunnels. Adversarial review. Publishing gates. This is what AI-native organizations look like in production.