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About us

Our mission is to unlock the power of "where" questions

The best ideas come from smart people who know what to ask. We built MAIA to help them go further.

One survey sheet carrying the physical world — hills, farmland, a street grid, a river, and a rail line — with a lime lens resting over an ordinary city block

Why are we building MAIA?

The problem

Most people do not want a map. They want an answer. GIS is powerful, but it was built for people who make and interpret maps. We know that world well. Everyone else has "where" questions too, and answering them should not require GIS expertise.

Our solution

A chat box on GIS is a faster horse. We are building the racecar. MAIA combines an expressive LLM with a world model, purpose-built agents, and inspectable methods to answer detailed spatial questions quickly and rigorously. Every part of the system is tuned to make tokens work harder on "where" questions.

Backed by

Root Ventures
Boldstart Ventures
1121 VC
Homebrew
Looking Glass Capital
Factorial Capital

Meet our co-founders

Andrew and Chris have been best friends since they were five and are lucky enough to be building their dream company together. They want MAIA to feel like a rocket ship and a community at once: a place where extraordinary people pursue enormous ambitions, are unreasonably good to each other, and genuinely enjoy the ride.

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The fastest way to get answers from the physical world