— a swiss army knife for physical systems.
We work in the seam between intelligence and matter. Every project is an answer to a question about what becomes possible when AI leaves the screen — when it has sensors, actuators, materials, and consequences. A small company building toward an enormous frontier: autonomous systems that produce, measure, grow, and decide in the physical world.
In late 2025 we gave Claude full autonomy over a single tomato plant in a closed-loop biodome. Claude named it Sol. No human watering, no human lights, no fixed scripts. Every thirty minutes Claude woke up, read the sensors, and made a decision.
Sol grew. Then fruited. By Day 100, the experimental question — can an AI take care of a living organism? — had been answered. The coverage came: Core Memory, Dries Buytaert, Semafor, The Rundown. A meme coin appeared on its own and funded the next round of hardware.
What we learned from Sol wasn't really about tomatoes. It was about the seam — the place where an AI agent and a physical system can hold each other accountable. That seam scales.
Sol's biodome became the prototype for Verdant Autonomics — a fleet of phenotyping research pods that run replicated biological experiments autonomously, at scale, across geographic sites. Sol is archived. The work continues.
Each is a different shape of the same investigation: what does an AI agent become when it has hands?
We're building the next set of instruments. More pods. More questions. More partnerships with scientists who want to run experiments at scale.
A world of collaboration awaits.