Ayo
CEO
ML systems at Apple. Instagram infrastructure at Meta. D. E. Shaw fellow.
ECE, CS and Math. NASA RockSat-C. Built Trace, an AI-native PCB platform that shipped physical boards.
Why we started
Building a chip takes hundreds of engineers and years of work, and most of that effort goes into proving the design works. Verification is the largest cost in a chip program, and every generation makes it larger. That’s why so few companies can build their own silicon.
What we’re building
Autonomous agents that verify an SoC from spec through signoff. They work from one continuously updated dependency graph of the design and its runs, and Ledger keeps every run, revision and verdict. When the design changes, they only rerun what the change could have affected and keep every result that still holds. Engineers set the direction and keep signoff.
Where it leads
We start with verification because that’s where most of the work is. Take it off the critical path and a chip that once took a hundred engineers can be built by five. They set the product, performance, power, cost and schedule, and keep the high‑consequence decisions and signoff, while the system carries the rest. We call it the five‑person chip company.
