Maximal
ActiveMaximal is a planning agent for commercial truck fleets
This company has previously operated under “Lucid Spring”, “Palace”. A rename frequently marks a pivot in positioning or product — useful raw material for variant ideas.
About
Today, commercial trucking fleets make planning and dispatch decisions on gut feel and legacy tooling. Their margin is dictated by their planner's cognitive capacity. Maximal gives carriers an AI planning system that sources loads, creates plans, and automatically adjusts as changes happen. Maximal lets carriers run at the margin of our simulation engine + agents. Leeds (CEO) studied operations research + computer science at Cornell and Columbia and his family runs a 3PL. He worked on the algorithm's that power Amazon’s robotics in distribution centers and he was the 1st PM at Golden (acquired) and 7th PM at Alchemy (a16z, Coatue). Derek (CTO) studied computer science at USC, was founding engineer at Kits AI (acquired), and was the youngest tech lead in his department at Amazon.
Founders · 2
Building Palace. Inspired by transportation science and my family's 3PL. Previously 7th PM at Alchemy, 1st PM at Golden (50M raised from a16z + Founders Fund, acquired by Comply Advantage), CS + Operations Research at Cornell, Columbia grad school dropout
AmazonBuilding Palace. Previously tech lead at Amazon, founding eng at Arpeggi Labs (a16z), National Merit Scholar at USC.
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