We build the way we're asking you to show up.
Directly. Honestly. With care for the people involved. We think how you build something says as much about it as what you build.
The team
Anastasia Uglova
Co-Founder & CEO
Anastasia helped coin the term “agentic tech” and has spent years taking that thinking directly to builders and capital, shaping how the ecosystem understands AI built for human agency. She holds an MS in privacy and information security from UT Austin, spent six years as CIO of an East Africa edtech startup, and led AI security at Deloitte. She founded Better Half on the conviction that the most important problem in AI right now is a human one.
Bernhard Borges
Co-Founder & CTO
Bernhard holds a PhD and brings an unusual combination of cognitive science, distributed systems, and cryptography to the work of building AI that actually serves people. He built advanced reasoning models at SFU, Max Planck, and PwCC, served as a Distinguished Engineer at IBM, and was Chief Scientist at Fluence, where he designed protocols for verifiable compute and zero-knowledge proofs. He believes the hardest problems in AI are not technical ones.
How we work
The team has to practice
what the product teaches.
We are a small team, and we think that is a feature. Fewer people means more accountability, clearer communication, and less room to avoid the conversations that need to happen. We give direct feedback. We repair things when they break. We don't pretend everything is fine when it isn't.
We hire slowly and carefully. Every person here carries real weight.