RAKE ML
The Intelligence Layer for the Physical World
We are building the first vertically-integrated AI platform for the built environment. Not a better tool, but an entirely new system of reasoning for physical assets.
Get in TouchThe Status Quo is Broken
The built environment represents over $500 trillion in global assets. It's also a ticking clock of risk, managed by gut feelings, Excel, and rules of thumb from a world that no longer exists. Portfolios are larger, materials are more complex, and climate change is systematically breaking every historical model.
Even the most sophisticated players, armed with the latest technology, are just building better thermometers; they tell you today's temperature with more precision but offer zero reasoning about tomorrow's fever. Without understanding the patient, a better thermometer is useless.
What is truly needed is the radiologist who sees inside, the hospital system that coordinates care, and the AI-native nervous system that understands why. We are building that future.
We Solve the Problems That Keep Owners Up at Night
Our system moves beyond simple alerts to provide a strategic reasoning layer. We address the root causes of the most catastrophic financial and operational failures:
For CFOs & Asset Managers
We prevent the surprise failures that lead to earnings misses, covenant breaches, and unplanned capital calls that can get you fired.
For Insurers
We replace crude, zip-code-level risk models with precise, asset-level intelligence, preventing the multi-billion dollar losses that come from everyday events, not just headline catastrophes.
For Lenders & Traders
We provide true, dynamic visibility into collateral health and operational reality, creating alpha and eliminating hidden liabilities.
How We Win: Vertical AI Infrastructure for Infrastructure AI
We've built the complete AI stack purpose-built for the complexity of the physical world. By owning the entire process, we create a compounding, defensible advantage.
Proprietary Synthetic Data Engine
We don't wait for the world to provide data. We generate it. Our systems simulate millions of physically-grounded degradation and failure scenarios, creating a richer, more complete training dataset than reality could ever offer. This allows our AI to understand causation, not just correlation.
Purpose-Built AI Models
Our models are trained on this unique data to understand the physics of decay, the cascade effects of weather, and the subtle signatures of impending failure across thousands of variables.
Multi-Modal Intelligence Fusion
We unify disconnected data streams—from satellite imagery and weather patterns to maintenance logs and financial reports—into a single, coherent understanding of every asset.
The Strategic Co-Pilot & Reasoning Layer
This is where data becomes command. We deliver not just predictions, but the underlying reasoning, second-order impacts, and strategic recommendations. It's a true co-pilot for high-stakes financial and operational decisions.
Every prediction improves every future prediction. Every asset makes the entire system smarter. This compounding intelligence is our ultimate moat.
What This Unlocks
Our platform is not about maintenance; it's about mastery. We are building the panoptic, strategic view that transforms how multi-billion dollar portfolios are managed, financed, and insured.
Total Asset Intelligence
See the unseen. Go beyond single-asset views to uncover systemic risks and hidden correlations across your entire portfolio.
Mastery Over Capital & Time
Move from a reactive capex cycle to a predictive one. Intelligently defer maintenance, optimize acquisitions and dispositions with surgical precision.
Operational & ESG Dominance
Transform operations from a cost center to a strategic advantage. Optimize energy consumption and generate auditable, data-driven reporting.
A New Class of Financial Instruments
The intelligence we generate is the foundation for the next generation of finance: from parametric insurance to infrastructure derivatives.
Built By the Only Team That Could
This requires a rare fusion of expertise: deep AI research, enterprise-scale deployment, and a visceral understanding of the owner's pain.
Our CEO - Rafael Ortega LinkedIn
A graduate of the Naval Academy, our CEO flew the F/A-18 as a Naval Aviator, leading teams of over 130 personnel through seven deployments where he specialized in evaluating every facet of the built environment—from satellite intelligence to on-the-ground reality. While at Chicago Booth for his MBA, he worked in private equity and saw firsthand how information blindness—not just asset failures—crippled investment theses and killed market opportunities. He intimately understands the acute financial pain of the owners we serve and brings a career of elite, mission-driven execution.
Our CTO - Kevin Kabaria LinkedIn
A decade-plus expert who has delivered enterprise-grade AI across a remarkable range of frontiers. A Princeton computer science graduate, his career has been defined by leading teams at the nexus of frontier AI and real-world deployment. His work includes building complex AI models and simulations at NASA and pioneering transformer models for forecasting in the Intelligence Community. As a leader at Bloomberg, he scaled teams shipping high-performance AI across new industries like finance and legal and was awarded a foundational patent in generative AI for his work in computer vision. He has invented and deployed novel synthetic data systems to solve previously intractable problems, a capability he used to found and sell a predictive startup that achieved market-beating results. He is the rare expert who has led across every axis of modern AI and connects frontier research to enterprise reality.
The Vision: A Computationally Tractable World
Today, we are focused on the $217 trillion commercial real estate market. Tomorrow, our platform will become the system of record for every physical asset class: from energy pipelines and data centers to the roads, bridges, and rails that form the backbone of our economy.
We are not just preventing failure; we are building the foundation to optimize design, dynamically price risk across the global economy, and make the entire built environment operate with perfect information.
We are building the intelligence layer for the physical world.
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RAKE ML - Transforming Physical Assets into Computational Intelligence