PlantingSpace

PlantingSpace is a company focused on building a system that accurately represents knowledge and uncertainty to enable the discovery of insights and transparent problem-solving. The system is designed to provide services across different domains, such as acting as analysts, research assistants, or data scientists. It can receive queries in natural or domain-specific language and provide answers with insights into its reasoning. The answers can be in various forms, including text, numbers, images, and colors, with a probabilistic distribution over several possible answers to account for uncertainty. The system shows the procedure followed to obtain answers, providing transparency into its reasoning, including reasoning steps, data sources, statistical methods, algorithms, and machine learning models used. It uses a universal language for knowledge to represent heterogeneous information and employs a probabilistic framework for reasoning and learning to reduce manual effort needed to curate data. The system includes visual and natural language representations to make reasoning understandable. The methods used by the system include category theory to capture structure and composition, Bayesian statistics to represent uncertain knowledge, deep learning to recognize patterns, and cognitive science to understand reasoning and learning. PlantingSpace builds hierarchies of goals instead of a hierarchy of positions, ensuring clear ownership without middle management. Tasks within the organization are targeted and transparent to make individual achievements visible and rewarded. Teams within the organization are fluid and form naturally, replacing organizational silos with orientation around common interests. Over 70% of the team members have chosen to become stakeholders in the company. PlantingSpace operates fully remotely with team members across 14 countries and meets every quarter in various locations around Europe. The company is hiring predominantly in European time zones and offers positions in research, software development, operations, and business development. PlantingSpace values collaboration, curiosity, and having interesting problems to work on at all levels, and offers co-ownership opportunities, allowing team members to become shareholders from day one.