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Everything comes out of the ground. Our world is made of minerals, concrete, ground shaped for infrastructure: homes, roads, datacenters, supply chains, utilities, defense… Everything from your breakfast today to the device you are reading this on to the copper in your GPU requires a key primitive: molecules of earth have to move for any of those objects to exist. AIM is the physical AI platform that moves those molecules autonomously, at scale, reliably, in brutal conditions, every day. We are on an exponential scale ramp across all levels of the business and are hiring across disciplines: from embodied AI to firmware to COO to hardware eng to account management to forward deploy… As fullstack as it gets! If you find terraforming Earth with physical AI deployed in production more meaningful than building robots doing backflips, folding towels, or even just driving cars – let’s talk. Remember even all those robots had to come out of the ground and many of their molecules were made possible because of the machines we have automated. Built by operators across mining, construction, Google, SpaceX, Waymo, Navy SEALs, Amazon, Tesla, AIM enables scalable earthmoving, turbocharging the global economy’s physical foundation. We are backed by some of the most sophisticated capital in the world, including General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Elad Gil, HUMAN CAPITAL, Ironspring Ventures, Mantis Venture Capital, MVP Ventures, Qasar Younis, DCVC.

Operators aren’t being replaced. Their impact is being expanded. Instead of focusing on a single machine, experienced operators can now oversee entire fleets, optimizing performance, improving utilization, and making real-time decisions across a site. With one operator overseeing multiple machines, teams can increase output while reducing exposure to on-site risk. The result is a shift in how work gets done: • Safer operations • Higher-value roles • More consistent, scalable performance This is what next-generation operations look like. We break this down further in our latest white paper. Link in comments.  https://lnkd.in/gRpb5BdT

Autonomy isn’t coming. It’s already delivering. More output. Less fuel. More efficient operations. That’s what early deployments are already showing. For a six-machine fleet running continuously, that can translate to $6.1M in annual net savings. This isn’t theory. It’s already happening. Read more via our white paper in the comments.

Stuck in traffic because of roadwork? This may be why: “The machines are often idle because there aren’t enough operators to run them.” — AIM CEO Adam Sadilek at the State of the City of Redmond, WA panel. No operators → idle machines Idle machines → delays + traffic It’s not just roads. It’s a capacity problem. Autonomy changes that. Watch the full panel at the link in comments.

Everything you use is either mined, dug, or grown. The steel in your car. The copper in your phone. The concrete under every road you have ever driven. It all started with someone moving earth. For decades that work has run on the same constraint: one skilled operator, one machine, one shift at a time. And for decades, that was enough. It isn’t anymore. The infrastructure backlog is measured in trillions. Labor shortages are leaving fleets idle across mining and construction. The world needs more earth moved than the current model can deliver. That gap is why AIM exists. Not to replace the operators who built everything around us. But to give the next generation of them leverage they've never had. One person, multiple machines, full production days, without putting anyone in harm's way. This is happening right now. At mines. At construction sites. At defense installations where keeping people out of the blast radius is the only acceptable outcome. If you want to build the technology that moves the physical world — we're hiring. Link in comments.

You don't build a company like AIM because autonomy is trending. You build it because 46,000 heavy equipment operator roles go unfilled every year, 41% of the workforce is retiring, and the world needs more earth moved than the current workforce can physically deliver. That gap is what drives everyone at AIM. We welcomed Aaron Witt and the BuildWitt crew to our proving grounds in Washington. Rain, fog, mud: real conditions, real machines, real conversations about where this industry is headed. But the best part wasn't the demo. It was watching our team in their element. Mining veterans and engineers from Waymo, SpaceX, Google, and Tesla, people who could work anywhere, standing in the mud together because they believe this mission matters. We're building the lever this industry has always needed. The people in this photo are why we'll get there. If this is the kind of work you want to be part of, we're hiring. Link in comments.

"There goes my job." That was one of the reactions to BuildWitt's video from our proving grounds. But one comment from a 40-year operator stood out. He said yes, it's cool and scary. And then he said something more important: the industry has already failed on training. Crews run short, so nobody wants to sacrifice production to put someone in the cab and teach them. The only way these jobs get done is by changing how the industry works. He's been watching this for 40 years. He's not wrong. This is an industry that struggles to hire, train, and retain enough people to keep up. AIM doesn't solve that by replacing operators. It changes what the job looks like. Less repetition, more oversight, more leverage across machines. AIM-OS puts one skilled operator in command of a fleet of autonomous machines from a safe location, applying the judgment they built over a career at a scale that was never possible from a single cab. The best operators don't just run one machine anymore. They make decisions across many. If you run a fleet, what would your operation look like with that kind of leverage?

Aaron Witt sat down at our operator interface with zero training. Within five minutes, he was reading lidar maps, following cut plans, and tracking two autonomous dozers in real time. His reaction: “This is literally a video game.” That’s not an accident. We built this interface so the technology carries the complexity and the operator focuses on decisions. The same judgment and craft that makes a great operator today makes a great fleet manager tomorrow — just at a different scale. 94% of construction firms can’t fill their open positions. The tools need to match the workforce that’s coming. Full video from BuildWitt is live. Link in comments.

Multiple earthmovers. Working in unison. Zero operators in cab. This is autonomous dozing at the AIM proving grounds, filmed by BuildWitt. One person manages multiple machines from a single screen, setting the plan, monitoring execution. The construction industry needs 439,000 new workers this year. 41% of the workforce is projected to retire by 2031. The one-operator-per-machine model can’t keep pace. Fleet-level autonomy changes the ratio. Not by removing operators but by multiplying their reach. Full video from Aaron Witt is live. Link in comments.