Our Mission
We radically transform the speed & leverage of scientists & engineers working on the plastic waste crisis. Our AI co-scientists eliminate the digital toil of materials research so you get to market first.
Founders
We've shipped AI in production. We know how institutions actually adopt it. We are a group of seasoned technologists, passionate about applying our skills in enterprise-grade production AI systems to support any researcher working on the plastic waste crisis.
Jessie Jensen
Founder & CEO
AI systems builder who just wants to BUILD. A decade-plus track record of shipping enterprise AI/ML products that scale from pitch to full-enterprise production at Microsoft, Starbucks, & Amazon. Obsessed with lectures on plastic waste, the systemic issues that brought humanity here, & the innovators that will solve it.
Heather Diehl
Co-Founder, COO & Chief of Business Development
NASA and IMF background, with advisory work spanning startups, Fortune 50 institutions, and sovereign nations. Deep grounding in technology modernization, policy and governance, and what it actually takes for an organization to adopt bleeding-edge technology.
Ed Daroza
Strategic Advisor & Co-Founder
Principal Data Scientist at Starbucks and co-creator of DeepBrew, its enterprise AI platform. Twenty years of engineering across Intel, Starbucks and the University of Washington. His production deep-learning, reinforcement-learning and uplift models drive more than $136M a year in incremental revenue. Advises on AI architecture and technical direction.
Brian Ames
Strategic Advisor & Co-Founder
Led the Starbucks team that built DeepBrew, the AI platform behind more than a billion recommendations a year, which Satya Nadella featured in a Microsoft Build keynote. Data and AI leadership across Microsoft, GM, State Farm and Starbucks. Advises on enterprise data strategy and bringing AI to market.
Investors
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Careers
Build the AI decision layer for materials R&D
We're hiring early, mission-driven team members who believe in evidence-first culture and want to accelerate the circular economy through better R&D tools.
Interested in joining our team? Tell us why you are a fit for our team:
Waste is merely material we have not yet learned to value.
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