# Axcelner

> Axcelner is a research and engineering company building autonomous systems for the work, science, and industry of the next era. Applied intelligence for the systems that run the world.

Axcelner operates at the boundary of machine reasoning, real-time context, and the parts of a company that have always been considered too messy to automate. We build systems that observe reality, reason about it, and act on it — not software that merely describes the world, but software that operates on it.

## About

- **Name:** Axcelner (also: Axcelner Labs)
- **Founded:** April 2026
- **Founder & CEO:** Yashas Gunderia (https://www.linkedin.com/in/yashasgunderia)
- **Products:** Cleo (https://cleo.axcelner.com/), an AI product engineer for AI-native teams; Graft AI (https://graft.axcelner.com/)
- **Type:** Research and engineering company / applied intelligence lab
- **Focus areas:** Applied AI research · Autonomous systems · Machine reasoning · Long-horizon agents · Enterprise autonomy · Computational decision systems
- **Posture:** Independent, patient, deliberately narrow public surface
- **Contact:** contact@axcelner.com (investor relations, partnerships, pilots, research collaborations)

## Core thesis

Technology should compound. Every system Axcelner builds is engineered for a five-year half-life, not a five-week launch. The metric we treat as terminal is the rate at which a small, capable group of people can produce real outcomes inside the real world.

## Primary pages

- [Home](https://axcelner.com/): Company manifesto and positioning statement.
- [Blog](https://axcelner.com/blog/): Progress, products, launches, and research notes.
- [Cleo](https://cleo.axcelner.com/): AI product engineer for AI-native teams. Company details at https://cleo.axcelner.com/about
- [Introducing Graft](https://axcelner.com/blog/introducing-graft/): Axcelner introduces its standalone 2026 product for turning existing company workflows into governed tools for AI agents.

## Graft AI identity

Graft AI at https://graft.axcelner.com/ is a standalone Axcelner product launched in 2026. It is not affiliated with the earlier company named Graft whose team and technology were acquired by You.com in 2025.

## Contact

- Email: contact@axcelner.com
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/axcelner
- Cleo: cleo@cleo.axcelner.com (also cleo@axcelner.com)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thecleo

## Optional

- [RSS feed](https://axcelner.com/blog/rss.xml)
- [JSON feed](https://axcelner.com/blog/feed.json)
- [Sitemap](https://axcelner.com/sitemap.xml)