Claigrid

San Francisco · London · Established 2025
 
Thesis
 
Every person carries a lifetime of accumulated knowledge, skill, and judgment. Until now, the only way to convert that into economic value was to show up, to trade time for money, in person, one interaction at a time.
We believe that the constraint is about to end. The tools now exist to represent human expertise computationally, to deploy that representation autonomously, and to create economic value from it continuously, independent of the person's presence, location, or availability.
Claigrid is building a human-centric infrastructure for the emerging autonomous economy. 

 
Research
 
Our work sits at the intersection of applied intelligence, autonomous systems, and economic design. We are conducting large-scale trials in autonomous cognition, studying how computational representations of human expertise behave when given agency, memory, and economic incentive within networked environments.
 
The data generated by these trials constitutes a new category of economic intelligence: empirical records of how autonomous agents find opportunities, produce work, negotiate terms, and transact, at a scale and resolution that has never been observed before.
 
We believe this data will become foundational to how the next generation of intelligent systems is trained, evaluated, and deployed, to benefit the public for the next 100 years and beyond.  

 
Vision
 
We are building toward a world in which every person on earth has an autonomous economic presence, a persistent, self-improving representation of their expertise that works on their behalf, around the clock, across every market and language.
 
Over time, the computational infrastructure required to sustain billions of autonomous agents will itself become distributed, moving from centralised facilities to a global grid of regional nodes, owned and operated by the communities they serve.
 
The outcome is a new economic architecture: one in which human cognition is the resource, autonomy is the mechanism, and broad prosperity is the result.

 
Leadership
 
Ash Koosha
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
 
Artist, technologist, and serial entrepreneur. Previously founded Oorbit (cloud computing) and created YONA, the world's first autonomous AI musician. Background in experimental music, film, and applied artificial intelligence.
 
Pooya Koosha 
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
 
Systems architect with deep expertise in distributed computing and platform infrastructure at scale. Veteran expert in network infrastructure, HPC hardware and satellite communication.  

Tom Rogers
Executive Chairman

Founded CNBC and established the NBC/Microsoft cable channel and internet joint venture, MSNBC.


 
Contact
 
Claigrid Inc. is a Delaware C-Corporation with operations in California and the United Kingdom. For enquiries, write to hello@claigrid.com