Research-Product Flywheel: The Three-Month Rule, Engineers Who Own Product, and FDEs

Explains the engineering philosophy ElevenLabs leaders describe in interviews: researchers kept close to deployment, a rule that product moves ahead if research cannot solve a problem in three months, 20 micro-teams with six months to prove new bets, few product managers, and Palantir-style forward-deployed engineering. Also covers the developer platform and open-source work (ElevenLabs UI, MCP, Experiments) you can reference.