Scientists Who Ship.
Frontier alignment research and production AI.
CLIENTS AND COLLABORATORS
AE is our secret weapon.
Head of Product, Azul Airlines
RECENT WORK
Applied AI, where it has to work.
Aviation · Revenue & Operations
Azul Airlines
$6M/week in new revenue
Orchestrated pricing, network, and marketing AI. 8+ production ML models running daily in the airline's environment.
Edtech · Hyper-personalized learning
Alpha School
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.
Medical devices · Brain-computer interfaces
Blackrock Neurotech
MoveAgain BCI platform
Production software for a brain-computer interface that helps paralyzed patients regain movement and communication.
Manufacturing ERP · Back-office automation
Global Shop Solutions
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.
WHY AE
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 what your business actually needs.
See our alignment research → Meet the team →
HOW WE WORK
Where application and research meet.
Internal systems
Make your organization AI-native.
Knowledge graphs, intelligence layers, agentic automations, and the training to use them. The internal system that makes your company operate with AI at every level, compounding over time.
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. Senior pods embed with your team and deliver working software every week.
Alignment research
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.
Not sure where to start? Just talk to us and we'll help you figure it out.
WHO WE WORK WITH
Find your team.
The teams we work with best are usually building something the world hasn't seen before. The technology is still being invented, the category is 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.
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Value creation at portco speed. One AI-native team, deployed across your portfolio.
→](/content/who-we-work-with/pe-portfolios/index.html) [Mid-market
You run a real business: operations, margins, supply chains, people.
We pilot for a quarter, then scale what works.
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Founder-level velocity from day one. We've built from zero and we ship production code, not decks.
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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.
LET'S TALK
Bring us the hard problem.
We'll bring the team that ships.
Book a call See the work first
Get in touch contact@ae.studio