Amy Yuan
Founder · ex-Physicist · Mountaineer
Physics PhD turned production AI. Co-founded an AI personalization company that scaled past $150M in revenue. Now building above the model layer.
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Work
Systems rooted in research, proven in practice, designed to compound. Currently building above the model layer — where architecture, constraints, and feedback shape behavior more than weights.
Building
Durin
Truthfulness in market intelligence.
Pawgress
Family AI that knows when to step back.
AI Research
Agents. Reasoning. Tooling.
Shipped
PROVEN & Noteworthy
$150MM+ revenue. 2 patents.
Lyra · McKesson
Clinical AI. Drug prediction.
Top-10 Apps
CubicMan. Camera360. Divine Might. 2 exits.
Highlights
Stanford / USC
10 papers. 2 PRL covers.
MIT AI Idol
AI personalization.
World Record Simulations
Peta-flop computing.
Altitude
Summits & ranges
- next objectiveDenali · Alaska20,310 ftNorth America's highest point.
- Kilimanjaro · Tanzania19,341 ft · summitedMachame route. Six days of sustained ascent.
- Colorado high peaks & Ouray12,000 – 14,440 ftMulti-season above treeline. Ice and mixed routes in the Ouray backcountry.
- Mount Rainier · Washington14,411 ft · summited 2026Glaciated stratovolcano. Crevasse rescue, roped travel, technical snow and ice.
- Cascades & Canadian Rockies8,363 – 10,781 ftBaker, Glacier Peak, St. Helens, Banff. Glaciated volcanoes, alpine starts.
Snow teaches impermanence. Ice demands honesty. Rock invites dialogue. Glaciers stood before the first of us and will remain after the last. Against that scale, confidence moves carefully. Insecurity rushes. I climb to learn where the limits are — and to move freely within them.