Keep people indispensable as intelligence gets cheap.
Coembark is an applied research lab. We build durable systems at the application layer, turning frontier models into tools that expand human agency rather than quietly removing it — one lab, several frontiers, held to a single standard of rigour.
What we believe
Technology should grow what people can do.
- Collaboration, not replacement
- The best systems make a person better at their work, not redundant in it. We measure success by what people can do with our tools, not without them.
- Agency by design
- People should stay in command of the decisions that matter. We build for understanding, oversight, and the ability to say no.
- The application layer is the work
- Frontier models are raw capability. The hard, human part is putting them to work safely in real contexts — and that is where we focus.
Team
The people building it.
Founder & CEO
Lily was a portfolio manager in global equities at a Tier 1 hedge fund. She holds a PhD in computational biology covering modelling, machine learning, and statistics, and served on the boards of two biotech companies.
Chief Technology Officer
Aeron studied computational neuroscience, bioinformatics, and machine learning. He left his DPhil to become the first employee of Psyrin, a forward-deployed AI startup in US behavioural health, and went on to co-found Coembark with Lily.