We built this inside an enterprise before we sold it to one

Surface Area is an applied AI lab. We build the environment layer for enterprise AI: the data, the systems, and the sealed worlds agents run inside. In practice that means production agents, custom infrastructure, evaluation environments, benchmarks, and data products.

Choosing a model is the easy part. The work is giving an agent access to the right data and tools, constraining what it is allowed to do, and proving how it behaves before it goes live. We mobilize that data, rebuild the systems it touches as sealed worlds where agents can be tested without risk, and ship what clears them.

The same machinery points outward. Environments and scoring built to prove your systems can be published as benchmarks under your own name, and the same governed data can become products for selected partners, including the AI labs.

The founders built eval infrastructure and agents across multiple Fortune 500 enterprises and frontier labs. One of those enterprises acquired them, and they went on to lead Applied AI across the business. The broader team comes from Stripe, Notion, Meta, and frontier AI labs.