Research and intelligence
Find, enrich, compare, organise, and monitor the information a team needs before making a decision.
candidate research · market scans · brief intelligence
Aran Labs builds Aran
Keep your best people on the work that needs their judgment.
Aran maps how your creative business works, then deploys specialised agents inside the tools your team already uses. They handle the operational work around the decisions only your people should make.
Live in a London casting agency · deployed inside existing tools
The product
Specialised agents, shaped around your business.
Aran is a suite of agents. Each one handles a specific kind of operational work. Together they form a system around your workflow, your language, and your tools.
No platform migration. Your team gets only the agents that fit, working where the business already runs.
3,000+
casting candidates researched and vetted
30+
senior-team hours reclaimed each week
human
judgment remains with the casting director
Live casting workflow
The system does the search. The casting director makes the call.
For an independent London casting agency, Aran connects research, enrichment, deduplication, segmentation, and outreach preparation around one live brief.
pilot workflow active
Aran human judgment
01
Interpret the brief
Read the client, culture, context, and unstated edge.
human
02
Research and enrich
Search across sources and build structured candidate profiles.
Aran
03
Deduplicate and segment
Clean the longlist and organise it around the brief.
Aran
04
Shape the shortlist
Apply taste, relationships, risk, and the eye clients hire.
human
05
Prepare and track outreach
Move approved candidates into a consistent contact workflow.
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06
Make the final judgment
The casting director owns the recommendation and client relationship.
human
“Now the system handles the research and the lists. I spend my time on the parts clients actually hire me for: taste, culture, the eye. It's turned us into a casting atelier.”
Casting director · London
The paid pilot has supported live briefs since March 2026 and reclaimed more than 30 hours a week for the senior team.
The operating principle
If a decision benefits from your team's judgment, a human makes it. If it doesn't, an agent handles it.
People hold the edge
Direction, selection, client trust, cultural context, exceptions, and final approval stay visibly human.
Agents carry the weight
Research, enrichment, coordination, checking, preparation, and recurring administration run around those decisions.
Before deployment
The interview maps the business before an agent touches the work.
Over several conversations, the automated onboarding interview learns the team's moves, vocabulary, tools, handoffs, exceptions, and judgment calls.
What the interview maps
- Recurring workflows and bottlenecks
- Tools, documents, and sources of truth
- Team language, standards, and exceptions
- Decisions that must remain human
What your team receives
- A map of the current operating workflow
- The first high-leverage job to deploy
- Recommended agents and integrations
- Permissions, checkpoints, and human owners
Where Aran starts
Three kinds of operational work that keep pulling senior people off brief.
Operations and workflow
Keep records, handoffs, project states, and recurring coordination moving across the existing stack.
deduplication · routing · project updates
Content and communication
Prepare the recurring drafts and communication around work while keeping voice and approval with the team.
outreach prep · proposals · client summaries
Built from the work
Design judgment became the product requirement.
Aran Labs is led by Ciaran Moore, a creative director who has built brands, campaigns, and products for Vana, Gitcoin, and SOPHIE. Client work exposed a deeper problem: senior creative capacity was being lost to operational coordination.
Aran turns those live operating problems into reusable product systems. The company runs on the same human-and-agent model it deploys.
Founder's notes
How human judgment reaches machine speed without losing itself.
Field notes on creative direction, operating systems, and what AI should and should not do inside a creative business.
Read the notesFrequently asked
Is Aran another AI platform my team has to adopt?
No. Aran is deployed around the tools and workflows the business already uses. The onboarding interview determines which agents and integrations make sense before anything is built.
Will agents make our work feel generic?
Aran is designed around the opposite distinction. Agents handle operational work; people retain direction, selection, cultural context, relationships, exceptions, and final approval.
What happens to our data?
Access is scoped to the systems needed for the pilot. Permissions, retention, human checkpoints, and data handling are documented with your team before deployment.
What happens after I apply?
We review the workflow and fit, then reply with questions or a short discovery call. A pilot is paid, deliberately scoped, and agreed before implementation begins.