Chandra
Bhagavatula
Lead Research Scientist at AI2
PhD, CS (Machine Learning)
Chief Scientist at Chipstack
Acquired by Cadence
Architected Cadence’s AI Super Agent for Chip Design
Adopted by NVIDIA
Company
The self-operating company
We believe a company should be able to hold its own state, understand what depends on what, and carry its work forward without a person pushing every step. We are building the operating layer that makes that possible.
What we believe
Companies are organized around a limit. That limit is lifting.
No one person can hold a whole company in mind, so we divide the work into pieces small enough to carry and spend our time moving information between them. We think the result is a different kind of company, not a faster version of the one we have.
Coordination is not the work
Most of what people do inside a company is move what they know to someone who needs it. We want that attention back, pointed at the work that needs a person: judgment, taste, invention, and relationships.
A company should know its own state
What has been decided, what has been promised, and what each of those things rests on, held in one place and kept current. When one part changes, the company knows what else moved.
Judgment is the hard part
Knowing the state of a company is not the same as knowing what to do about it. A sense of what correct looks like, in this company, is the problem we chose.
This is not an efficiency story
When the limit that shaped a company disappears, the company does not get faster at what it was doing. It becomes something else.
Read the full manifestoThe companies that matter in twenty years will not be the ones that use artificial intelligence just to do the same work with fewer people.
Who is building it
An AI research scientist and a distribution-focused operator
Chandra
Martín
Ramírez
Ops SMEMartín Ramírez on LinkedIn
2x Founder
Ex-Microsoft, BS Computer Engineering
CRO of WellSaid Labs
Led 50+ person org
$0 → $12M ARR built from scratch in under 2 years
Pre-ChatGPT
Incubated at
Atlas is incubated at AI House in Seattle, Washington.
Atlas is our first product.
It gives a company a live account of itself, so a founder can know what is happening without assembling it by hand.