product development

Scientists Who Ship.

Frontier alignment research and high-stakes production AI.

Clients and collaborators

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AE is our secret weapon.

Head of Product, Azul Airlines

Applied AI, where it has to work.

Azul Airlines

Alpha School

Blackrock Neurotech

Global Shop Solutions

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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.

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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.

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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.

How we do it →Products and capabilities

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.

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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.

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Not sure where to start? Just talk to us and we'll help you figure it out.

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.\ →

The AE guarantee

We'll treat your project like it's our own and do whatever it takes, with a founder-level mentality, to make it spectacularly successful.

Bring us the hard problem.

We'll bring the team that ships.

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