# Barnacle Labs

> London-based AI consultancy helping enterprises build production AI agents, sovereign AI systems, and AI strategy. We engineer breakthroughs, not buzzwords.

Founded in 2022 by Duncan Anderson (former European CTO, IBM Watson AI) and John-David Wuarin (MS Engineering, Columbia). We build AI systems for the US Federal Government, financial services, global enterprises, and biotech firms.

## What We Do

- **AI Discovery** — Workshops + working prototype in 2 weeks, delivered as an AI Action Plan
- **Build** — Prototype-first development through to production shipping
- **Training** — AI training for leadership, developers, and business teams
- **Advisory** — Architecture, models, and deployment guidance at critical decision points

## Research

- **Minerva** — Scientific reasoning platform that keeps human researchers in the loop. Agents navigate research, test hypotheses, train models, and collaborate across teams. [/minerva](/minerva)
- **Alexandria** — Pre-built agentic AI for business applications that reduces risk and accelerates time-to-live.
- **NanCI** — AI-powered cancer research app built with the National Cancer Institute and Google Cloud. Used at 100+ academic institutions. [/nanci](/nanci)

## Guides

- [AI Agents Guide](/ai-agents-guide) — What AI agents are, how they work, workflows vs agents, the agentic loop, identifying opportunities, case studies, risks, and getting started. Written for enterprise leaders.
- [Sovereign AI Guide](/sovereign-ai-guide) — AI privacy, compliance, and data sovereignty for UK/EU organisations. Covers why the "stateless" assumption fails, US jurisdiction risks, UK GDPR, anonymisation, and sovereign compute options.
- [Agent Memory Guide](/agent-memory-guide) — Why vector databases aren't enough for agent memory. Covers layered memory, hybrid retrieval, graph memory, context graphs, consolidation, sentinel agents, and the full memory stack.
- [Your Employees Are Already Running AI Agents](/openclaw-guide) — OpenClaw hit 430K stars in 4 months. Covers the four primitives, security reckoning, clone ecosystem (NanoClaw, ZeroClaw, Moltis, NemoClaw), agent-to-agent enterprise vision, and the Moltbook experiment.

## Blog

Recent posts at [/blog](/blog) covering AI agents, context engineering, scientific AI, medical imaging, multi-agent systems, AI costs, and data sovereignty.

## Contact

- Website: https://www.barnacle.ai
- Careers: careers@barnacle.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/barnacle-labs