Corpora in June
This month has been filled with events and conferences for the Corpora team, alongside an exciting new partnership announcement and frontier insights.
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University of Oxford Innovation startup Lumenai secures pre-seed investment from Corpora to scale human capability intelligence for the AI era
Corpora.ai announces our partnership and investment in Lumenai.
We're proud to announce our partnership and investment in Lumenai, an Oxford University Innovation incubated venture pioneering Human Capability Intelligence for the AI era.
Lumenai’s Human Capability Indexing methodology transforms behavioural attributes such as decision-making, adaptability and collaboration into structured intelligence that AI can understand and support. Combined with Corpora’s AI knowledge ecosystem, this partnership will help organisations better understand, develop and unlock human potential in increasingly AI-enabled workplaces.
We are excited to support Antonia Manoochehri and the team as they scale their vision for more intelligent, adaptive and human-centred organisations.
Read the full partnership announcement here.
How Corpora provides deeper research at lower costs
Mel Morris CBE, Corpora.ai's CEO and Co-Founder.
Our CEO & Co-founder Mel Morris CBE recently posted an article on how efficient and cost-effective our model is after he ran a research report using Opus4.7 with agentic search compared to Opus 4.8 using Corpora's ColossioDB API search. This narrative has been explored further in a feature on Capacity.
Mel highlights that although the frontier model's report was good, the same report being run using ColossioDB was "30% faster, it had 20% more citations, and the cost was five cents". The gap between the cost of this, and frontier-model based systems is astonishing, in this example , the scientific research report ran was ~480x cheaper using our system than the frontier-model. This comes down the fact that the proprietary technology we have developed at Corpora.ai operates using different architecture entirely.
By delivering net unique content directly from ColossioDB's graph database, we bypass the requirement for agentic research systems to dispatch, fetch, and process numerous web searches. This is why we can dramatically cut costs and energy requirements while producing reports in a greater depth with full citation and attribution.
We highly recommend reading the feature piece for a full explanation on why what we have built is so special here.
And read Mel’s original article here.
Looking back on London Tech Week
Corpora's CEO and Co-founder, Mel Morris CBE, speaking with Peter Kyle at London Tech Week.
Corpora was proud to spend London Tech Week on the Department for Business and Trade stand, engaging with leaders including Peter Kyle, Ceri Morgan CBE, and Rodney Berkeley CBE.
Our conversations reinforced a key challenge facing UK innovation: not a lack of ambition, but the speed at which knowledge can be discovered, connected and applied. That's where Corpora makes a difference.
Corpora in TechUK’s blog: UK's AI Opportunity
During London Tech Week, Corpora’s CEO & Co-founder Mel Morris CBE was featured in TechUK's blog where he highlighted that the UK's AI advantage lies not in competing on compute and infrastructure, but in accelerating scientific discovery.
With world-leading research and intellectual capital, the UK is uniquely positioned to use AI to transform how knowledge is discovered, connected and applied. Mel highlights that future AI leadership will be defined by the ability to turn knowledge into breakthrough discoveries faster than anyone else.
Read the blog piece here.
Mel on the Future of Scientific Discovery
In a recent article for Research Professional news, our CEO & Co-founder Mel Morris CBE explores the growing gap between scientific discovery and real-world decision-making.
While peer-reviewed research remains essential, traditional publication cycles can delay access to emerging insights. As innovation accelerates, researchers, investors and organisations need faster ways to discover, connect and act on new knowledge.
Read the full article here.
Extending Corpora's network in France
UK-France Tech Week reception at the British Ambassador's Residence with the Depart for Business and Trade.
Last week, Corpora was represented at VivaTech 2026 in France by our CMO, David Pugh-Jones, as part of the UK delegation led by TechUK and London & Partners.
A highlight of the visit was the UK-France Tech Week reception at the British Ambassador's Residence in Paris, hosted in partnership with the Department for Business and Trade. The event brought together leaders from the UK and French technology ecosystems to exchange ideas, strengthen connections and explore new opportunities for collaboration.
The change in narratives around AI in marketing
Lastly, David Pugh-Jones went from Paris down south to Cannes to attend Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity as a correspondent for The Marketing Society and he had a busy week exploring how AI is shaping the marketing landscape, and how humans play a crucial role to maintain the human intelligence behind it.
The key reflection from David, is that AI conversations this year have less hype with fewer grand predictions for the future. Instead, the narrative has shifted to how organisations can be prepared for what is coming. Emphasising the need for individuals and organisations to ensure they are ready for what they have adopted.
David also highlights the fact that critical judgement and taste for marketers is more important now than ever. With AI shortening the distance to decisions, the role that the human plays in has never been so crucial.
To read more about David's reflections on Cannes and market shifts, see this post.
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