One Inventor, Twenty-Seven Years, Forty Live Projects

Most AI companies at this stage are working on one product. AskMAE.ai™ is the opposite story, and the story is interesting.

The work came before the moment

Krista Pflibsen did not start building for artificial intelligence. She started building for people, twenty-seven years ago, around a single question: how can we change the world into a better place simply because we have existed within it?

That question produced behavioral systems, marketing systems, decision frameworks and methodologies long before there was a model to run them on. When the models arrived, the hard part was already finished. What most AI companies are still trying to invent, AskMAE.ai™ had spent two and a half decades writing down.

The technology finally caught up to the work.

What forty projects actually means

AskMAE.ai™ has forty products built, live and available to demonstrate. Not forty items on a roadmap. Forty things a reporter can be shown working, in a browser, on request.

They span intellectual property capture, business automation, human behavior, decision support, communication, safety and personalized intelligent experiences, with hardware, robotics and extended reality integrations underway.

Self-funded, on purpose

The company is self-funded. There is no outside funding to announce and none is claimed. That is not a gap in the story. It is the reason the product decisions were never made by someone who had to be talked out of them.

Why this is a story now

AskMAE.ai™ was named to the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 for Disrupt 2026, which TechCrunch describes as its annual, handpicked list of the two hundred most promising early-stage startups from around the world. The company exhibits at Moscone West in San Francisco, October 13 to 15.

A solo inventor with forty working products, walking into the largest startup conference in the world without a raise behind her, is not the shape of story that comes out of that show very often.