Lateral

Lateral is an open source platform designed to help individuals and organizations solve complex problems collaboratively and at scale. It provides a network for sharing skills, coordinating research, and resource allocation, offering interoperable components such as roadmapping, researcher sourcing, document extraction, rapid evidence collection, and proposal review. With its modular architecture, support for autonomous agents, LLM chaining, local-first deployment, and automation of repetitive research workflows, it is especially useful for research teams, domain experts, and organizations involved in science, technology, policy, and innovation.