Our decade-long goal at DecisionX
And in the process, helping every human endeavor become polymathic.
This is our ambition for the next decade, and we’re starting with pharma and CPG.
By polymathic, we want people to be able to follow a good question, connect disciplines, follow their curiosity, and bring more of their abilities to the work they care about.
Prometheus carried fire down to people and put new possibility in their hands.
We want AI to do the same in the lab and on the plant floor. For us, that takes three qualities:
It makes sense of signals in context, including the exceptions that experienced people know to look for.
It anticipates what may happen and helps plan a response while there’s still time to act.
Its outputs can be checked against evidence and the constraints of the process.
We want to make systems of intelligence Maximally Curious: systems that grow alongside the people who use them, find new uses for what they know, and connect ideas across fields.
Three ideas from science guide how we build them
Complex life began when one cell took in another and the two lived on as one. Your mitochondria are that partnership.
New capabilities emerge when people, AI, and centuries of process knowledge come together and shape one another. We’re interested in what becomes possible through that relationship.
Feathers first evolved for warmth. Much later, they made flight possible.
Good systems keep finding new uses for what they already know, so a pattern learned on one line can warn of trouble on another.
Understanding grows stronger when evidence from different disciplines holds together. That is how science settles hard questions.
Our systems test data, domain rules and cause and effect against one another before they commit to a conclusion.
Our starting point is always the process itself, including what the people closest to it have learned.
Many of us grew up on team sports. We still love the same things about them: different strengths, close attention, and the feeling of getting better together.
We bring that spirit to industries where a decision takes physical form, in a batch of medicine or a product on a shelf. Mistakes there are expensive and sometimes dangerous, which is exactly why we want intelligence to unfold there first.
Some of the questions that keep us up at night
How can we help every scientist live and breathe their work like Leonardo da Vinci, with all the capabilities to follow their curiosity across disciplines?
How can we give the best minds in pharma all the help in the world to tackle the diseases that plague so many?
How can the people sweating it out on the plant floor see a fault coming long before it hits, and know what to do about it?