The team

CEO

Will Taubenheim

Will is an AI engineer who builds systems that have to work under real pressure: for NASA, for the U.S. Navy and Air Force, and for businesses in healthcare, finance, real estate and the trades. He founded Lost Frame Ventures in 2018, works with owners as an engineer and fractional CTO, and co-founded Next Pillar Capital.

Four NASA awards

Including a prototype-track award and People's Choice at the 2026 finale of the NASA LunaRecycle Challenge, NASA's largest Centennial Challenge, against more than 1,200 competing teams.

• AI for the U.S. military

  Missile-defense AI for Navy destroyers, an autonomous wildfire-suppression award from NAWCTSD and SERDP, and an Air Force Global Strike Command down-select.

• Meta, Google and Epic Games

  A Meta Presence Platform Grant and Quest 3 consulting at Meta HQ, an Epic Games MegaGrant, and partner work with Google’s Gemini team.

• Software used by millions

  Technical lead on Escape the Backrooms, with more than 130,000 positive Steam reviews. His own VR titles have reached over 2.5 million players.

• Keynote speaker on AI

  Illuminate 2026 at The Ion in Houston, the Greater Brookfield Chamber AI Summit and Entrepreneurs' Organization DC. Author of a 248,000-word State of AI report.

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Partner

Joe Staiber

Co-founder and CEO of Tampa Entrepreneurs, a non-profit that hosts free events for business owners around Tampa Bay. CEO of Autoscale, which builds AI sales and marketing systems, and founder of the PR agency NewsFeature. Built and sold two e-commerce businesses, and speaks internationally on sales and paid ads.

BringsMaking AI fit the way a business actually sells and grows.

Advisors

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  Nick Maciel

  Technical advisor

  Automation and operations

  Mechanical engineer with an MS in Mechatronics from Northeastern. Product work at Apple and on the FDA-cleared ActivSight surgical imaging system, and led the Paradigm Hyperloop team to eighth fastest in the world at SpaceX’s competition. Founded Rising Origin, an AI automation agency for home-services and small-business operators.

  BringsAutomating the day-to-day work of running a service business.

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  Georgi Gospodinov, PhD

  Technical advisor

  AI and data systems

  Mathematician with a PhD from Brandeis who taught applied mathematics before moving into large-scale data systems. At Walmart he worked in data science and is a named inventor on two U.S. patents for real-time fraud and anomaly detection. Co-authored the JSTOR Academic Knowledge Graph, and now builds confidential-computing infrastructure for healthcare AI.

  BringsKeeping data private, and knowing when to trust what AI does with it.

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  Darren Lau

  Advisor

  AI research and policy

  AI and computer-vision researcher. A 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar for AuRING, a patent-pending AI and augmented-reality surgical-guidance system, and first place at the Invention Convention U.S. Nationals. Worked on AI legislation as a U.S. House legislative intern. Yale Engineering & Science Scholar.

  BringsWhere AI research is heading, and the rules taking shape around it.