Different order, same underlying objects.
Audience paths reorder the existing public surfaces. They do not create separate versions of the research, evidence, products, or institutional state.
START HERE
What are you here to do?
You do not need to understand the whole Lab first. Choose the question closest to yours—evaluate the research, solve a systems problem, collaborate, fund a specific piece of work, challenge a claim, or simply explore.
Every path leads through the same public research, products, evidence, and current work. The order changes to save you time; the underlying record does not.
HOW THESE PATHS WORK
Different needs. The same underlying Lab.
The first useful question is why you came.
A reviewer, client, funder, collaborator, and curious visitor should not all be forced through the same explanatory sequence before they can find what matters.
A path is guidance, not a tunnel.
Every step remains an ordinary public page. You can leave the suggested sequence whenever another object, relationship, or question becomes more relevant.
PICK THE PATH THAT FITS
Start with the smallest useful sequence.
Researcher5 stops
I want to evaluate the research.
Start with the active research programs, then inspect claims, experiments, publications, and evidence before deciding what deserves deeper review.
ResearchClaimsExperimentsPublicationsEvidence
Inspect this pathEngineer5 stops
I want to see how this behaves as engineering.
Begin with things that run or can be applied, then inspect project cases and the tools that make the work operational.
ProductsProjectsApparatusApplied WorkEvidence
Inspect this pathFunder4 stops
I want to know what support would accelerate.
Start with what the Lab is trying to fund, then inspect current priorities, evidence, and concrete work before deciding whether a specific effort is worth supporting.
FundingNow / RoadmapEvidenceProjects
Inspect this pathCollaborator4 stops
I want to work with the Lab on something real.
Start with the ways collaboration can work, then inspect current priorities and the research or projects that overlap with your expertise, users, infrastructure, or audience.
CollaborationNow / RoadmapResearchProjects
Inspect this pathClient4 stops
I have a consequential system that is expensive to misunderstand.
Start with the kinds of outside systems problems BFL can help with, then inspect evidence and adjacent work before deciding whether there is a practical fit.
Applied WorkProductsEvidenceProjects
Inspect this pathCritic4 stops
I think something here may be wrong, overstated, or incomplete.
Start with how criticism enters the Lab, identify the specific claim or evidence at issue, then trace it back into the research before sending a critique.
Open LabClaimsEvidenceResearch
Inspect this pathCurious4 stops
I am interested, but I do not know the Lab vocabulary yet.
Take the shortest explanatory path: what the institution is, what it builds, how the pieces relate, and what is changing now.
AboutProductsLab AtlasWhat changed?
Inspect this pathNONE OF THESE FIT?
Browse freely, or tell us what you are trying to do.
The Lab Atlas can help you browse public work directly. General contact is also fine when you know the problem or question but not which BFL page it belongs on.