Aemon

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The Forward-Deployed AI Research Engineer

Winter 2026Founded 20253 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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Autonomous Research AISaaSEngineers, researchers, optimization teamsLow competition

Moat

Autonomous agent generates and tests thousands of approaches; NP-hard optimization; research-grade quality.

Key risk

Narrow domain focus; competing against human experts, specialized optimization; scalability uncertain.

Why now

Complex optimization problems increasing; AI research capability advancing; compute availability.

Competitors

Emerging space, academic optimization

About

Aemon is the first autonomous research engineer that delivers state-of-the-art solutions to your engineering problems. It generates, tests, and evolves thousands of approaches at machine speed to discover optimal solutions beyond what human experts can find. Aemon already set a new world record on an NP-hard math optimization problem with <$10 of compute, beating the previous record set by Google DeepMind in 2025. Ray and Richard (twin brothers) dropped out of UWaterloo and UIUC to build Aemon. They published at top AI conferences like ICLR and EMNLP before turning 20.