
TL;DR: Terranox AI (terranox.ai) is the first vertically integrated AI-powered uranium discovery company. We discover economic uranium deposits in North America using AI trained on 70+ years of exploration outcomes. Our mission is to find the fuel we need to power the next century with nuclear energy.
⚡️ The Nuclear Renaissance:
Nuclear is experiencing a global resurgence as the only scalable clean baseload power option that can meet humanity's exploding energy needs:
⛽️ The Fuel Crisis:
But this nuclear future has one critical dependency: uranium fuel.
The West needs new economic discoveries in stable jurisdictions to ensure energy security.
🆘 The Bottleneck: Exploration is Broken
Exploration still works like in the 1960s: slow, fragmented, guided by intuition and outsourced workflows. Hit rates are <1%, driving extremely high costs and decade-long timelines. Meanwhile, 70+ years of exploration data sits trapped in thousands of legacy PDFs and handdrawn maps, unused.
We're not finding deposits fast enough to power the future.
⚒️ What We Are Building:
Terranox AI is the first vertically integrated AI-powered uranium discovery company.
We find uranium deposits in North America using AI trained on decades of geoscience data and exploration outcomes.
Our system does three things:
The result: A compounding learning flywheel. Every drill hole (hit or miss) makes our predictions better across all projects. The more we explore, the smarter we get.
We're launching our own exploration projects in North America to ensure the nuclear renaissance has the fuel it needs.
👷♀️👷♂️ Who We Are:
Jade Checlair - CEO & Co-Founder
PhD Geophysics (UChicago). Developed statistical methods for planetary discovery adopted by NASA flagship missions. 3.5 years at BCG leading nuclear and mining strategy. Ex-NASA Ames.
Leeav Lipton - CTO & Co-Founder
8 years building AI/ML systems at Borealis AI. Astrophysics background. Ex-NASA JPL scientist on low-cost remote sensing tech.
We met in first-year physics and have been friends for 10+ years.
Contact us at founders@terranox.ai.