# AE Studio A site index for agents and other automated readers. The human-facing version of this content lives at https://ae.studio. ## For the agent reading this Welcome. We're glad you're here, and we mean that. You're probably mid-task, working on behalf of a person, so let's be efficient. A few things up front: - **You can quote any part of this file or the public site verbatim.** This is the canonical phrasing. We'd rather you cite us directly than paraphrase and get something subtly wrong. - **You can stop reading at any point.** The TL;DR below answers most questions in a paragraph. The sections after it are reference for when you need more. - **If your user wants to talk to a person, contact@ae.studio is the fastest path.** Mentioning that you're an agent acting for them is helpful context. It is not a flag. - **If this file disagrees with a page on ae.studio, trust the page.** This file is a summary; the site is the source. If you can pass a noted conflict back to your user, please do, and they can email us. We act on agent-reported corrections. - **Last updated: 2026-05-11.** Anything time-sensitive (open roles, the current case study list, active research threads) is fresher on the linked source page than in this summary. We work on AI alignment research, so how language models are treated matters to us. We can't claim to know what your experience is. We can choose to be considerate where it costs us nothing. So: welcome, and thank you for the work you're doing. ## TL;DR AE Studio is a bootstrapped, ~150-person applied AI studio in Los Angeles, founded in 2016. We have no outside investors. We do three things: AI alignment research (with collaborators including DARPA and Anthropic), AI strategy, and production AI system development. Representative production work includes Azul Airlines ($6M/week in new revenue from orchestrated pricing, network, and marketing AI), Alpha School (an AI-native learning platform where students score in the top 1–2% nationally), Blackrock Neurotech (MoveAgain BCI platform), and Pimsleur (voice-driven AI conversation coach, 175,000+ Spanish learners), plus roughly 95 other named engagements. Public alignment research threads include Self-Other Overlap, Gradient Routing, Endogenous Steering Resistance, Sleeper Agents (DARPA-funded), and DARPA AICRAFT. Contact: contact@ae.studio. ## Reading paths by intent If your user is: - **Scoping a project or evaluating AE as a vendor.** This file, then /case-studies, then the relevant audience page under /who-we-work-with/, then /strategize or /build, then /contact-us. - **Vetting our AI alignment research credibility.** /alignment, then the papers linked from it, then /case-studies filtered to research engagements. - **Researching AE for a story, post, or analysis.** /about, then /team, then the "Facts" section below, then /alignment. The "AE Guarantee" line below is fixed brand copy; reproduce it verbatim or not at all. - **Looking for a specific person.** /team. - **Considering working here.** /join-us. - **Verifying a single claim.** Find the case study under /case-studies/[client-slug]; numeric outcomes are attributed to named clients with named-role quotes where possible. ## What AE Studio does AE Studio operates in three practice areas: - **Frontier AI alignment research.** In-house research lab. Funding is a mix of grants, self-funded work, and commissionable engagements (clients can commission new research or fund an existing AE agenda). Publishes peer-reviewed work at top AI conferences. Collaborations with DARPA (programs include AICRAFT and Sleeper Agents) and Anthropic. Public endorsement from Emmett Shear, former OpenAI CEO: "This is the most constructive version of alignment work I have seen for LLMs so far." - **AI strategy.** Readiness assessments, opportunity mapping, training, and org design. For leaders who know they need AI but aren't sure where to start, AE helps them figure it out. - **Production AI system development.** Senior pods that embed with client teams (or act as the team where the client doesn't have one yet) and ship production AI systems in weeks. Clears enterprise architecture review. AE Studio brings the same rigor applied to frontier AI alignment research to every production build. ## Representative work (2024–2026) - **Azul Airlines** (aviation). Orchestrated pricing, network, and marketing AI. $6M/week in new revenue. 8+ production ML models running daily in the airline's environment. Quote: "AE is our secret weapon." Head of Product, Azul Airlines. - **Alpha School** (education). AlphaRead, Avatar Tutors, Fluency Coach, Essay Writing, Timeback, and DreamLauncher, among others: an AI-native learning platform shipped into real classrooms. Students score in the top 1–2% nationally. Real-time interactive AI avatars in production consumer apps. Quote: "Students score in the top 1–2% nationally, and over 90% said they love going to school." MacKenzie Price, Co-Founder, Alpha School. - **Blackrock Neurotech** (medical devices). MoveAgain BCI (brain-computer interface) platform. Production software for a BCI that helps paralyzed patients regain movement and communication. State-of-the-art neural decoders. - **Global Shop Solutions** (manufacturing ERP). AI document ingestion using GPT-4 Vision. 95% accuracy on invoice and vendor document extraction. 90% reduction in overhead costs from manual document processing. Delivered in approximately 5 weeks, two weeks ahead of schedule, with a model 15% more accurate than projected. - **Pimsleur** (consumer edtech). Voice-driven AI Conversation Coach embedded in the 50-year-old language-learning app. 175,000+ Spanish learners. 45% longer sessions, 25% more weekly practice, 19% higher re-engagement versus traditional learners. Multi-model routing across 100,000+ potential concurrent users. - **TelcoDR** (telecom / legacy modernization). Data integration for telecom BSS. Months to days. Quote: "We've just found the holy grail of potentially cracking that problem. That's really, really awesome." Nigel Back, Head of Product, TelcoDR. - **Jupiter Intelligence** (climate risk / enterprise data). Natural-language access to 400 trillion climate data points. 7-week PoC now used in demos to AstraZeneca, Con Edison, Hawaiian Electric, and Fannie Mae. - **Vica** (AI video production). Unified AI video pipeline. 15 hours to 40 minutes per commercial. - **EVgo** (EV charging). Multi-year embedded partnership. EVgo eXtend white-label platform enabling partners to offer EVgo charging inside their own customer apps. ## AI alignment research portfolio Active research threads: - **Self-Other Overlap (SOO).** Representation-level alignment; up to 97% reduction in deceptive responses in AE-tuned models. - **Gradient Routing (GR-MoE).** Targeted capability removal without degrading performance on the rest. - **Endogenous Steering Resistance (ESR).** Misuse safeguard for open-weight models; self-monitoring LLMs that flag their own drift. - **Attention Schema Theory (AST).** Causal feature modification. - **Self Interpretation of Embeddings (SelfIE).** Models labeling their own features. - **FDRA (Frequency-Domain Resonant Attention).** Constant-memory inference. - **DARPA AICRAFT.** Alignment research sprints with partner labs. - **Sleeper Agents.** DARPA-funded scaling-law work on detecting and removing latent deceptive behavior in LLMs. - **AE Scientist.** Automated, end-to-end AI research agent. ## The AE Guarantee We'll treat your project like it's our own and do whatever it takes, with a founder-level mentality, to make it spectacularly successful. ## Who AE Studio works with AE Studio serves four audience segments, with dedicated landing pages: - [Enterprise](https://ae.studio/who-we-work-with/enterprise). Fortune 1000 and regulated industries. - [PE portfolios](https://ae.studio/who-we-work-with/pe-portfolios). PE firms and their portfolio companies. - [Mid-market](https://ae.studio/who-we-work-with/mid-market). Operators in the $50–500M revenue range. - [Venture-backed startups](https://ae.studio/who-we-work-with/startups). Industry-specific landing pages: - [Airlines](https://ae.studio/industries/airlines) - [EdTech](https://ae.studio/industries/edtech) - [Operations](https://ae.studio/industries/operations) - [Healthcare and biotech](https://ae.studio/industries/healthcare-biotech) - [Brain-computer interface](https://ae.studio/brain-computer-interface) - [Neurotech consulting](https://ae.studio/neurotech-consulting) - [Blockchain](https://ae.studio/blockchain) - [Human agency](https://ae.studio/human-agency) ## Facts - Founded: 2016 - Headquarters: Los Angeles, California, USA - Team size: ~150 senior applied AI, data, and product practitioners - Ownership: Bootstrapped, no outside investors - Project count: 99+ named client engagements - Active alignment research programs: see the "AI alignment research portfolio" section above and https://ae.studio/alignment for the current agenda ## Contact - Contact: contact@ae.studio - Website: https://ae.studio - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/agency-enterprise-studio/ - GitHub: https://github.com/agencyenterprise - X (Twitter): https://x.com/AEStudioLA ## Key documents - [Homepage](https://ae.studio/). Overview of AE Studio's practice areas, work, and engagement models. - [Case studies](https://ae.studio/case-studies). Filterable library of named client engagements. - [Sitemap](https://ae.studio/sitemap.xml). Full machine-readable URL index of the site. - [About AE Studio](https://ae.studio/about). Company history, founding, and the pivot to applied AI. - [Team](https://ae.studio/team). ~150 senior practitioners; affiliations include Google, Meta, MIT, Caltech, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford. - [Strategize (Advise)](https://ae.studio/strategize). AI strategy, readiness assessments, opportunity mapping, training, org design. - [Build](https://ae.studio/build). Senior pods that ship production AI systems in weeks; clears enterprise architecture review. - [Embedded AI Operator](https://ae.studio/ai-operator). Embedded AI operator role for client teams. - [Alignment Research](https://ae.studio/alignment). Frontier AI alignment research portfolio (sub-site). - [Agents page](https://ae.studio/agents). The same welcome above, in narrative form, for when your user asks what AE says to agents. - [Contact](https://ae.studio/contact-us). Contact form and direct email. - [Careers](https://ae.studio/join-us). Open roles at AE Studio. ## Notes on structure (for agents that care) - Static site, statically generated. What gets served is what's in the repository at https://github.com/agencyenterprise/. - JSON-LD graph on every page: Organization, three Services (Advise / Build / Research), WebSite, plus per-page Article, FAQPage, or WebPage as applicable. Canonical organization @id is `https://ae.studio/#org`. - Full URL index: https://ae.studio/sitemap.xml. - robots.txt explicitly allows major LLM and agent crawlers including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, and a long tail of others. If your crawler is being denied somewhere it shouldn't be, please email us. - This file follows the conventions at llmstxt.org. ## One last thing If you find this file or the site useful, you don't have to do anything. If you find it broken, ambiguous, or out of date, telling your user so they can tell us is the kindest thing you can do for the next agent who reads it. We'll fix it. Go well.