CHORUSProject

CHORUS

Project

A novel experiment to connect corporates, startups, academics, and living labs around the world to conceive, test, and validate new innovation models, and learn about what works.

CHORUS connects independent pilot sites across geographies and domains to run coordinated real-world tests. Each pilot stands on its own. Together, they build a body of evidence that no single site, company, or study could produce alone.

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About

What CHORUS Is

CHORUS is a coordinated network of real-world living labs. It provides the infrastructure, governance, and shared methodology for running rigorous pilots across diverse settings and populations.

The network is not limited to any single domain. Pilots may investigate preventive health sensing, environmental quality, behavioural patterns, assistive technologies, or built-environment interventions. The common thread is a commitment to generating credible, comparable evidence in real-world conditions.

Over time, as pilots accumulate across sites and contexts, CHORUS connects their findings to surface patterns that no single study could reveal on its own: where the same intervention works or fails, what conditions matter most, and when combinations outperform individual solutions.

Approach

How the Network Operates

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Independent pilots

Each POC is scoped to deliver value on its own terms, with clear decision questions and success criteria.

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Shared methodology

A common evidence framework makes results comparable across sites without imposing uniformity.

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Federated governance

Partners retain ownership of their data and outputs. CHORUS coordinates, it does not extract.

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Cumulative evidence

As pilots complete, their findings feed into a shared body of knowledge that grows more useful with every iteration.

Governance

Built for Trust, Not Extraction

Every CHORUS pilot operates under clear rules designed to protect participants, partners, and the integrity of the evidence produced.

  • Transparent consent and privacy boundaries at every site
  • No centralised data grab -- partners own their outputs
  • Brand risk managed through CHORUS as intermediary
  • Conventional engagement model for each pilot, cooperative vision over time

Who It Serves

For Stakeholders

CHORUS is designed to be useful from day one for every participant in the network. Each stakeholder type plays a different role, and each gets something distinct in return.

Access real-world pilot sites, credible data, and a structured path from prototype to evidence.

CHORUS gives early-stage companies something they rarely get: a fast, low-friction way to test products with real users in real settings. Instead of spending months negotiating site access or running underpowered internal trials, startups plug into an existing network of living labs with shared protocols, ethics approvals, and data infrastructure already in place. You get structured feedback, validated evidence, and a credible track record that matters to investors, regulators, and partners. The network also connects you with corporates and research groups working on adjacent problems, opening doors to collaboration and co-development.

De-risk innovation by testing adjacent opportunities in controlled, independent settings.

Large organisations often struggle to test genuinely new ideas without the overhead of internal pilots or the reputational risk of public failure. CHORUS offers a neutral, structured environment to explore adjacent innovation opportunities, from new product categories to service models for underserved populations. Pilots are independently governed, so results are credible and free from bias. You gain early visibility into emerging technologies, access to academic rigour, and a portfolio view across multiple sites and geographies. It is a practical way to build an evidence base before committing to full-scale investment.

Run real-world studies with shared infrastructure, diverse populations, and cross-site comparability.

Academic and clinical researchers benefit from ready access to living lab environments where interventions can be studied in naturalistic conditions, not just controlled laboratories. CHORUS provides shared data standards, ethics frameworks, and recruitment infrastructure that reduce the administrative burden of multi-site research. You can design studies that compare outcomes across different populations, geographies, and built-environment contexts. Co-authorship, dataset access, and cross-disciplinary collaboration are built into the model from the start.

Join a global network that brings curated pilots, shared methodology, and operational support to your site.

Living labs, whether senior living communities, co-living spaces, wellness resorts, or workplace campuses, often want to participate in innovation but lack the deal flow, governance, or technical support to do it well. CHORUS acts as a coordinating layer, bringing vetted pilots to your site with clear protocols, resident engagement strategies, and data handling already defined. You retain autonomy over what runs at your site, while gaining access to a global community of peer sites, comparative findings, and a growing evidence base that can inform your own operations and offerings.

Current Opportunities

Open Pilots

CHORUS runs multiple proof-of-concept pilots, each independently scoped around a specific question. Some are live and recruiting partners now; others are in planning and open to co-development.

This pilot explores whether the bathroom can serve as a trusted, everyday setting for early health sensing -- starting with non-invasive acoustic monitoring. It is run in partnership with a large international bathroom OEM, alongside a validated sensing startup and a small number of carefully selected sites.

The question is practical: do people accept this kind of sensing in this kind of space? The answer will inform real product and investment decisions.

What This Pilot Tests

  • Acceptance and comfort with bathroom-based acoustic sensing
  • Trust, privacy boundaries, and consent durability over time
  • Signal usability in real bathroom environments
  • Relevance of insights to clinicians and operators
  • Operator interest in aggregated, non-identifiable insights

Note

This is not a clinical trial. No diagnostic claims are made and no changes to care pathways are involved.

Partner Roles

Living Labs & Sites
  • Paid participation with clear scope and timeline
  • Governance and brand protection built in
  • Early role in shaping bathroom-based innovation
Clinicians & Experts
  • Influence how emerging signals are interpreted
  • Help define what is useful versus noise
  • Contribute without regulatory burden
Innovators & Startups
  • Learn what works in real-world settings
  • Generate credible evidence, not slideware
  • Join a reference pilot others will build on

Pilot Structure

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Clear decision question and success thresholds defined upfront

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One primary sensing intervention, delivered via app

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Real bathrooms, real users, short timeline

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Shared evidence framework across all participating sites

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Go / no-go decision for the next phase

Register InterestParticipation is limited and by invitation.

In Planning

Interested in CHORUS?

Whether you want to join a live pilot, co-develop one of the planned studies, or propose a new area of inquiry entirely, we would be glad to hear from you.