webAI

We help enterprises build, deploy, and operate custom AI on their own infrastructure. This allows organizations to run private, specialized models with data sovereignty, real-time performance, and predictable economics. Since 2019, we’ve served clients in the public sector, defense, aviation, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and retail.

Our platform includes several applications and technologies. Navigator helps you build, train, and deploy custom AI models on local infrastructure. Companion is an on-device assistant that connects employees to private AI. Runtime manages distributed AI workloads across various hardware, from single devices to large clusters. webFrame provides optimized inference and training using adaptive quantization and intelligent batching. Network links models, datasets, and devices via a secure, local fabric. Developers can use a Command Line Interface (CLI) to manage AI environments at scale.

The platform’s Entropy-Weighted Quantization (EWQ) compresses models by 30% while keeping accuracy near 99.5%. On Apple Silicon, our platform performs 2.6 times better per dollar and provides 5-7 times faster inference than leading C++ libraries through webFrame++. For knowledge-grounded tasks, it achieves 94% accuracy with a 7-point lead in Multimodal KG-RAG Output.

We believe AI should be specialized, sovereign, efficient, and sustainable, designed to solve real problems. Our core values include:

• Truth: Transparency and honesty in all we do.
• Tenacity: Persisting through challenges to achieve excellence.
• Ownership: Taking responsibility and committing to client success.
• Humility: A respectful, learning-oriented mindset.
• Compute is a utility: We believe AI should be accessible.
• You own what you build: You should control your data, models, and applications.
• AI must be local: Edge AI unlocks revolutionary applications.
• AI is the next software: We see AI becoming ubiquitous and aim for webAI to power it.

David Stout (CEO), Ethan Baird (Chief Research Officer), and Tyler Mauer (Chief Product Officer) co-founded webAI. We have 51-200 employees. Our culture is dedicated to solving key challenges in AI adoption by decentralizing intelligence, protecting privacy, and giving organizations full ownership of their AI models and data. We are a remote-first company.

We support our employees with equity options. Our family benefits include parental leave and fertility support. We offer a 401(k) for financial planning and comprehensive health coverage. Employees also receive a stipend for learning and skill development. We are a remote-first company with flexible time off.