Khryseai

Self-driving
companies.

Khryseai is an applied AI lab building companies that run on agents.

Return of Hephaestus, Attic black-figure amphora
Return of Hephaestus, Attic amphora
Thetis at the forge of Hephaestus, after Füssli
Thetis at the forge
Iliad 18, Florence 1488
Iliad 18, Florence 1488 (public domain)

417… ὑπὸ δ᾽ ἀμφίπολοι ῥώοντο ἄνακτι 418χρύσειαι ζωῇσι νεήνισιν εἰοικυῖαι. 419τῇς ἐν μὲν νόος ἐστὶ μετὰ φρεσίν, ἐν δὲ καὶ αὐδὴ 420καὶ σθένος, ἀθανάτων δὲ θεῶν ἄπο ἔργα ἴσασιν.

Homer, Iliad 18.417–420. The Khryseai, golden maidens made by Hephaestus.

Origin

“Handmaidens wrought of gold in the semblance of living maids. In them is understanding in their hearts, and in them speech and strength, and they know cunning handiwork by gift of the immortal gods.”

Tr. A. T. Murray, 1924.

Mission

The first thinking machines in literature were not weapons or oracles. They were workers, made of gold, with understanding, doing the work of their maker’s house.

We think the company is the next thing to become software. Not tools that help people run a business, but businesses that run: research, operations, delivery, the work itself, done by agents.

So we build them.

Principles

  1. Agents do the work. Humans set direction.
  2. Automate the whole process, not a step of it.
  3. Real customers over demos.
  4. Compounding over headcount.

Contact

If you think about companies the same way, write to us. hello@khryse.ai