About | Maru Labs

Why We Built This

Seven years of real client engagements. One problem: they don't scale.

For seven years, our cofounder Scott Radcliffe has led a graduate program where students run consulting engagements with real client organizations, more than 40 of them. Every engagement spanned business, process, and technology: understanding the client's goals, untangling how the work actually gets done, and building data and analytics solutions that fit. Real clients are the gold standard. They teach discovery, judgment, and how to defend a recommendation in ways a lecture never can.

But they're hard to scale:

One shot. One client, one team, no do-overs.
Constant sourcing. New sponsors to find and scope every term.
Uneven experiences. Each team gets a different client and a different lesson.
Heavy faculty load. Coaching every engagement takes deep, scarce expertise.

ClientLab keeps the rigor of a real engagement and removes those limits, so every learner gets the experience, as many times as they need.

Where We Are

Two rounds of ClientLab testing

Internal testing, then a cohort of early-career data scientists, engineers, and analysts. The pilot cohort will be the program's first run, and curriculum partners help shape the final course.

In role

Personas stayed in their professional roles, redirected off-topic questions, and pushed testers to rethink assumptions.

Earned

Key data and documents had to be earned through good follow-up questions, which made discovery feel real.

60–90 min

Of active work per scenario, synthesizing complex, sometimes conflicting information into a recommendation.

Team

Built by people who've led the work

Maru Labs is a Delaware corporation based in a Georgia Tech-affiliated incubator.

Scott Radcliffe · Cofounder & CEO

For seven years, Scott has run project-based consulting engagements with real client organizations, more than 40 of them, as Managing Director of Emory Goizueta's MS in Business Analytics program. Before that, 25+ years in AI and analytics leadership at Cox Communications, The Home Depot, IBM, and SAS.

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Weston Ford · Cofounder & Engineering Lead

Leads ClientLab platform engineering. 8+ years building platforms, APIs, and AR and flight software, including work at NAVBLUE, an Airbus company.