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Deep research. Enterprise execution.

We started Across AI to solve the hardest problem in enterprise AI: long-horizon reasoning for agents.

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founders + research

The company starts with research and ships into production.

Across comes from years of public research on memory, reasoning, coordination, and AI systems for high-stakes work. The company brings that research together with enterprise platform experience.

Nilou Salehi
Co-Founder & CEO

Nilou Salehi

AI researcher and UC Berkeley professor. Her research centers on human-centered AI, human-computer interaction, and reliable AI systems in high-stakes settings.

Afshin Nikzad
Co-Founder & CTO

Afshin Nikzad

Dual PhD, ML algorithm designer, and USC professor. His work brings a systems and coordination lens to the architecture of enterprise agents.

Research output: interviews, publications, talks
Interview
Building trustworthy agentic AI systems

Niloufar Salehi on reliability, context, and why agentic systems require new data structures.
Publications
Human-centered AI and high-stakes work

Selected papers across HCI, social computing, knowledge work, and reliable AI systems.
Teaching
Human-centered AI

Course material and research framing around design, development, and evaluation of AI systems.
team

The people building enterprise AI infrastructure.

Across combines research, product, engineering, design, finance, and enterprise operating depth, guided by advisors and backers who have built category-defining systems.

Leadership

Founding members & engineers

Advisors & investors

Vas Bhandarkar

Vas Bhandarkar

Founder/CEO ScoreData

Co-founder Selectica ($5B IPO).

Jeff Dean

Jeff Dean

Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind

Co-designer of MapReduce and TensorFlow.

Frederic Kerrest

Frederic Kerrest

Co-Founder & former COO, Okta

Grew Okta to a $40B+ public company.

Steven Mih

Steven Mih

Former CEO Aviatrix, co-founder Ahana Cloud.

"Tackling one of the hardest problems in enterprise AI."

"Has the potential to transform how enterprises deploy AI."

across in the field

Bringing together research and practice.

Across convenes two audiences: enterprise leaders moving from pilots to production, and researchers working on AI systems that learn from interaction.

Agentic AI for the Enterprise: executive dinner co-hosted with BCG
For execs & business leadersExecutive dinners co-hosted with AI leaders, including BCG and Box’s Diego Dugatkin, on moving from pilots to production with trust and explainability.
Across continual-learning research session
For researchersOur continual-learning series for people building AI systems that learn from interaction, with recent sessions on LLM reasoning and skill learning.
Past & recurring events
Executive dinnersCo-hosted with AI leaders including BCG and Box → Continual-learning seriesRecurring sessions for researchers and builders →
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Start with one workflow where context loss is expensive.

Bring Across into one workflow where memory matters, review matters, and the next action cannot be guessed from a single prompt: payables, a sprint team, a book of accounts.

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