The founding team didn't learn enterprise AI from the outside. They built it from the inside, at companies like IKEA, Shell, L'Oreal, and Bugaboo. They know what works, what doesn't, and why 95% of AI projects fail.
Before Valae, our founders built AI for global brands and saw a consistent pattern: expensive, bloated projects that failed to deliver measurable results. Most AI fails (95% of projects according to MIT) because solutions assume perfect data that doesn't exist in the real world.
Our founders created Step Zero to solve this, focusing on organising scattered knowledge into a foundational "AI brain" before building tools, ensuring every implementation actually works.
The same architecture that powers global Fortune 500 AI systems is available to a 200-person museum or a 14-store mobility brand.
Three directors who built their careers inside the world's biggest brands, and left to build something better.
Valae's broader team includes AI engineers with experience in NLP, computer vision, data science, machine-learning ops, and knowledge graph engineering.
The team operates across the US, UK, and EU, with specialists available whenever needed. It's lean by design. Every person brings direct value, no one fills seats.
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