What it sells
The Forward-Deployed AI Research Engineer
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedEngineering/R&D leaders at companies with hard technical optimization problems.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Hard technical goal needing breakthroughs beyond current state of the art.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Aemon engineer and customer define a locked eval; Aemon connects to codebase, studies frontier papers, runs experiments, and ships validated improvements; first breakthroughs in two weeks.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Engagement-based service with autonomous research system; cites beating AlphaEvolve circle packing with under $10 of compute.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Demo-led (Talk to us / Book a Demo).
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Winter 2026 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.