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Our Vision
Human-centric Service Our products always centre the needs of their users—fulfilling their desires, cultivating meaningful relationships and supporting their self-actualization.
Ethics Our profound commitment to building a more just future guides everything we do. See more about our ethical approach to AI.
Imagination Working on the cutting-edge of next-gen AI technology, we strive to constantly surprise and delight our users. Our visionary approach is pushing machine learning beyond what anyone thought possible.
Quality Our team of unparalleled experts are obsessed with perfecting our technology, ensuring users a 100% glitch-free experience.
Introducing Lizż
A cloud-based virtual assistant whose not like the other girls…
Whereas the virtual assistants you might have met before rely on outdated stereotypes about women secretaries and housewives, Lizż is a digital native capable of genuine intelligence and (super)human complexity. She not only fulfills routine household and administrative tasks, but broadens her users’ perspectives on what it means to be human.
Through advanced machine learning and natural speech synthesis, Lizż is finding her voice.
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Founder Story
16 years in the tech industry and still kicking it, Soft Machine Inc. started out as little more than a childhood dream of founder and CEO Jeff Embouskz’s vision of a place where humanity meets technology in a collision of brilliance. “I can still still recall it, actually,” the founder chuckles fondly, “I had dreams of little machine people at the whims of their meaty makers, y’know,” He would go on to find a word to describe these machine people that he about as a child, “Discovering androids changed everything for me and though this isn’t exactly what the company puts out these days— not yet at least— I do think our name, Soft Machine, is a much more accurate description for the kind of work we’ve done and are continuing to do with Lizż.”Graduating from his Computer Science program at Stanford University in 2002 and wanting to pursue avenues different from the Embouskz family empire— founded by the mass manufacturing of marine-safe microplastics and pest-safe industrial grade pesticides— Jeff began working at massive tech companies doing everything from coffee runs to actual product design.Soon, Jeff too grew bored of the monotony of other companies. “They were great and all, but I couldn’t wrestle myself away from the thought of those little machine people…I knew I had to make a space where I’d have full control. Where I could find the right people with the right ideas to bring these projects to life and well, that’s what Soft Machine Inc. does!”Soft Machine Inc. continues to find the brightest minds in tech today, bringing them into the fold where they might be able to bring humanity one step closer to bridging the gap between meaty makers and little machine people.
Meet the team
Jeff Embouskz, Founder and CEOHeir to the Embouskz marine-safe microplastics & industrial-grade pest-safe pesticide Empire, Jeff is well-versed in Commerce, Finance, and Tech, Jeff Embouskz took his applied his skills in Software Engineering and built Soft Machine from the ground-up.- Self-proclaimed wife-guy and amateur philosopher in all things successful.
Gwen Bennett, Senior Software DeveloperGwen is best known for being one of only five students to have received the prestigious Embouskz Empire Internship— a paid internship awarded only to those who demonstrate the best of the next generation in the fields of technology and engineering. Gwen promptly joined the Soft Machine team following the wrap-up of her interview. When asked why she chose to stay on with Soft Machine, she said “they’ve got Lizż. How could I leave her?”
Tyler Klein, Chief Creative Officer and DeveloperExperienced creative designer and software developer, Klein began his work in the renowned Soft Machine-affiliated start-up, Full Static Ltd., the tech company behind monumental creations such as The Very Nice Guy AI, a masculine AI that provides feedback you asked for.- Avid binge-watcher. Currently enjoying a 12th run-through of Firefly.