AI for the *physical world.
ASD is a research lab building foundation models for human dynamics — the way people, places, and businesses interact across geography. We turn the built environment into something queryable, predictable, and actionable.
Decisions about the physical world have been made on intuition, stale data, and consultants. We think they can be learned.
Where to open, where to invest, where to build, where to serve. These are some of the most consequential decisions a society makes — and they are almost entirely unmodelled. We build the models.
Four lines of work. One underlying bet.
A foundation for human dynamics at the bottom. Applications that pay for it in the middle. An interaction layer on top for the decisions that matter most.
ATLAS-01
A general-purpose model for human dynamics. One model, many downstream tasks.
MERIDIAN
Models for market selection and location–brand fit. In research preview with early partners.
WALDO
An AI you work alongside, not just prompt. Built on a new interaction protocol for expert-in-the-loop decisions.
PRISM
Automated machine learning built for geospatial data. Faster experiments, better models, less plumbing.