Scientists Who Ship.

Frontier alignment research and high-stakes production AI.

Clients and collaborators

Applied AI, where it has to work.

Azul Airlines

Revenue and operations

$6M/week in new revenue

Orchestrated pricing, network, and marketing AI. 8+ production ML models running daily in the airline's environment.

Alpha School

Personalized learning

Students in the top 1–2% nationally

AlphaRead, Avatar Tutors, Fluency Coach, Essay Writing, Timeback, and DreamLauncher, among others: an AI-native learning platform shipped into real classrooms.

Blackrock Neurotech

Brain-computer interfaces

MoveAgain BCI platform

Production software for a brain-computer interface that helps paralyzed patients regain movement and communication.

Global Shop Solutions

Back-office automation

90% less back-office overhead

AI document ingestion turns messy invoices and vendor quotes into structured ERP data at 95% accuracy. Shipped in about 5 weeks, two weeks ahead of schedule.

We care how this goes.

AE does frontier alignment research and production AI work under one roof. Bootstrapped since 2016, no outside investors, 150 senior professionals. That independence means no one tells us to stop funding alignment research, and we only take on work we actually believe in. We go after real problems. In alignment, that means neglected approaches others overlook, with collaborators like DARPA and Anthropic. In client work, it means the same rigor, applied to AI your business can actually depend on.

Proven in industry. Awardable to government.

We develop advanced alignment research into AI systems for national security. Our work is already Awardable on government procurement marketplaces.

Where application and research meet.

AI you can run the company on.

Evals, red-teaming, and continuous observability that prove how your AI behaves, and a knowledge graph that fixes the data underneath it. On that proof: agentic automations, an intelligence layer, and the training your teams need to run it all.

AI-native products that ship.

AI-native product builds, custom ML models, and new capabilities for your customers. From opportunity discovery through production, wrapped in the assurance that keeps them trustworthy. Senior pods embed with your team and deliver working software every week.

Frontier alignment R&D.

Commission new research, or fund an existing agenda. Published, peer-reviewed work that goes after real progress on the hardest questions in AI.

Who we work with.

The teams we work with best are building things where getting it wrong isn't an option. The stakes are real, the category is often still being defined, and they need a team that can move fast without cutting corners.

Enterprise
Ship AI into production on your terms. Teams that clear procurement and architecture review.
→ PE & portfolios
Value creation at portco speed. One AI-native team, deployed across your portfolio.
→ Mid-market
You run a real business: operations, margins, supply chains, people. We pilot for a quarter, then scale what works.
→ Startups
Founder-level velocity from day one. We've built from zero and we ship production code.
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Bring us the hard problem.

We'll bring the team that ships.

Get in touch contact@ae.studio