Our mission

Make Western manufacturing
economically viable —
and built to win.

We started from three convictions.

01

Most AI in industry
isn't serious.

The sector is starved of top-caliber data scientists and ML engineers — that talent went to consumer and software, not the plant floor. The result is noise: for every plant running something real, thousands of landing pages promise value that never ships.

02

Real solutions
don't scale — yet.

Fewer than 5% of plant managers have real-time intelligence on their process. Of those, most are wealthy parent companies who could afford bespoke builds. Floor intelligence shouldn't be a luxury good.

03

AI should live
where the data lives.

Real-time manufacturing data has a short half-life and enormous mass, and most of it is confidential. Shipping it to the cloud is the wrong problem. The engineering should point at one thing: making intelligence run in the plant, next to the process it serves.

Team

The people behind SERIOUS AI.

Kyle Edwards

Kyle Edwards

Co-Founder

Former Global VP at ABB, leading AI and automation across manufacturing, energy, and transportation. An advocate for Western industrial resilience, translating advanced AI research into intelligent systems deployed in the physical world.

Manas Talukdar

Manas Talukdar

CTO

Former VP of Engineering at C3 AI, with a decade at OSIsoft as a key engineer behind the PI System and later engineering leadership roles at Pryon and Labelbox.

Joseph Kelly

Joseph Kelly

COO

Former investment banking Vice President who left Wall Street to build in the real economy. After raising millions for startups, he now drives operations, capital, and execution at SERIOUS AI.

Mikhail Proniushkin

Mikhail Proniushkin

Founding Designer

Design engineer who spent over a decade building data analytics products, including 7 years at Palantir building the Foundry platform, and later leading 0→1 product design at Brex and Bastion.

Slava Voloshyn

Slava Voloshyn

Founding Engineer

Former AI engineer at Volvo and published AI researcher specializing in robotics and industrial intelligence. Builds scalable architectures that enable real-time reasoning across multimodal sensor, machine, and operational data.

Hakim Maakli

Hakim Maakli

Member of Technical Staff

Industrial IoT expert and former IoT lead at Georg Fischer. Hakim is rebuilding the connective layer of the factory—making it radically faster and easier to integrate sensors, machines, and legacy systems into reliable, intelligent edge infrastructure.

Karim Rahimov

Karim Rahimov

Member of Technical Staff

Serial founder of Fabrik Labs and MortyAI and former Founder in Residence at Antler. Karim operates at the edge of applied AI, deploying frontier models on-premise with the reliability, security, and performance required for mission-critical industrial environments.

Brett Dickson

Brett Dickson

Advisor

Manufacturing operator with more than 20 years across automotive, aerospace, semiconductors, and consumer goods. At Entegris, Brett led 300 employees, increased production velocity by 60%, and transformed plant performance.

Matthew O'Sullivan

Matthew O'Sullivan

Advisor

Industrial technology executive and board leader with deep experience across IoT, automation, advanced manufacturing, and commercialization. Former EVP at Panduit, where he built its IoT business and industrial technology partnerships.

Work on a problem that matters.
Join the team.

We are building intelligence infrastructure for the physical world. If that sounds like the right kind of challenge, we'd like to hear from you.

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