Understand what is blocking progress
Before recommending a solution, we examine the evidence, users, institutional constraints and decisions behind the brief. The scope follows the problem.
About Heritors Labs
Heritors Labs helps governments, research organizations and enterprises turn policy priorities into implementation plans, research into market propositions and operational needs into working platforms. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with international delivery experience.
Heritors Labs LLC is a United States company formed in Texas, headquartered in Houston. The company brings together innovation policy, research commercialization, management and technology consulting.
We connect policy, research, commercial strategy and engineering around the decisions our clients need to make. Our engagements combine a clear scope, practical outputs and a route from recommendation to delivery.
We build engagements around the problem at hand: the policy that needs an implementation path, the research that needs a market, or the institution that needs a working platform.

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Owner & Founder
Derrydean leads the direction of Heritors Labs, connecting the company’s work across innovation policy, research commercialization and technology.
His documented work includes national digital strategy, cross-sector research coordination, commercialization frameworks and platform development. Explore those assignments to assess the experience relevant to your own brief.
Discuss an engagementWhy work with Heritors Labs
A report alone will not fix a stalled process. Software alone will not resolve a policy gap. We connect the diagnosis to the work your organization needs to act.
Before recommending a solution, we examine the evidence, users, institutional constraints and decisions behind the brief. The scope follows the problem.
Commission the next piece of work: a policy framework, validation study, operating procedure or tested platform. Agree the responsibilities, dependencies and review points that connect it to use.
Review a published guide, a national blueprint contribution or a delivered assessment platform. See the deliverables, engagement role and documented result for yourself.
Evidence across the work: GIZ’s published AI guide · National digital architecture · VRA’s digital transformation blueprint
Derrydean Dadzie leads the direction of Heritors Labs. Your engagement begins with a defined brief and named responsibilities, so you know what is being commissioned and how it will be reviewed.
Discuss the problem you need to solveStart a conversation
Tell us what is stalled, what you need to decide
and what a useful result would look like.