Semilattice

We’re obsessed with the emergent complexity of human systems like organisations, markets, communities, and countries, and the uncertainty that complexity generates. We believe that uncertainty is a core reason why building things is so hard: 90% of startups fail, 80% of government change efforts fail, and 90% of infrastructure projects go over budget. We believe far better ways of managing and governing exist in the search space, but we need new computational tools to carry out the search. We’re betting that LLMs unlock new kinds of computational models of human systems which will enable decision-makers to accurately simulate counterfactuals and make better decisions. Our first product accurately simulates how groups of people answer questions, targeting the ~$100B research market. We’ve just raised a pre-seed and are now hiring founding engineers.