# Khryseai > Self-driving companies. Khryseai is an applied AI lab building companies that run on agents. Khryseai is based in Berlin. The name comes from the Kourai Khryseai ("golden maidens"), the handmaidens Hephaestus made in Homer's Iliad (Book XVIII): made beings with understanding, speech and strength who did their maker's work. ## Contact - hello@khryse.ai