Making
unimaginable ideas
inevitable.
A narrative R&D studio for frontier research.
To build a better world, we must build lots of worlds.
SpacetimeLabs is a narrative R&D studio that produces original media experiences around frontier research, designed to build audiences, attract talent, and inspire capital. We research science using science fiction.
Because you can't build a future that no one can imagine.
The new R&D.
Subscribe to the breaking news of tomorrow. Science fiction headlines inspired by today’s visionaries in science and research.
What is narrative R&D?
Every frontier technology needs a world built around it, where people can see themselves and understand what it means for them.
Narrative R&D is the practice of using storytelling, worldbuilding, and science fiction methods to research how breakthrough ideas become understood, supported, and adopted. It's not marketing. It's not branding. It's the world that exists before either is possible.
Let’s build worlds.
Worlds we’ve built…
Built with pioneers.
”They transformed our breakthrough technology into an investable business.”
Co-founder Team, BLSK Energy
"A veritable guiding light of communication!"
Dr. Paul M. Sutter
Astrophysicist / Host, Author, US Cultural Ambassador
”Highly recommended!”
Dr. Kimberly Arcand
Visualization Lead, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
”Incredibly sharp, perceptive, intuitive, and creative.”
Dr. Sara ElShafie
Global Change Biologist / Science Communicator
"Provided us with opportunity to raise more funding."
Chad Davis
Chief Innovation Officer
Nebraska Public Media (PBS & NPR)
From pitch to
Best in Travel
in 8 months.
We are life in the universe.
We built a world, ASTRO TOURS - The Science Travel Agency, where the cosmos became personal. Lonely Planet™ recognized it as their 2019 Best in Travel for dark sky tours.
From concept to global recognition in 8 months
Bootstrapped $1k into $500k in revenue
Sold out tours in Chile, Iceland, and Costa Rica
Partnership with renowned astrophysicist and author Paul M. Sutter
ASTRO.TOURS - We Are Life in the Universe - Brand/ID Promotion 2020