Small Team.
Big Systems.
Small team, outsized swing. We build in energy, AI, and infrastructure — the kind of work that's genuinely cool to ship and quietly makes the world a better place.
Switch the scene
Built Lean
AetherYield is a small, focused team that builds serious systems. No layers of management, no account reps, no bloat — just builders who ship. We take on hard problems across energy, AI, and infrastructure because that's what we're good at and that's what gets us out of bed.
Des Moines, Iowa
Home base. Central US, close to infrastructure, close to the ground.
Seattle, Washington
West coast ops. Cloud-native engineering and talent where the tech industry lives.
Remote-First
We work where the work is. No office politics, just shipping.
15 years across energy, solar, and design — building systems in the physical world long before the digital layer caught up. Running AI in production since before the hype cycle. Sees the whole board.
chris@aetheryield.com15 years in SaaS, operations and building the teams behind them. Turns complexity into repeatable systems. Deep on AI tooling, deeper on knowing where to point it. Makes big things move.
nick@aetheryield.comEvery project we ship runs on purpose-built AI operators — not chatbots, not copilots, but autonomous systems wired into production tooling. They handle the work that used to require dedicated headcount.
Monitors pipelines, container health, and cloud spend around the clock. Automates incident response and scales services before alerts fire. Replaces the on-call rotation.
Ingests from APIs, webhooks, and IoT streams into clean warehouse schemas. Handles ETL validation, schema drift detection, and query optimization end-to-end.
Continuous security posture management. Scans codebases, audits IAM policies, runs threat analysis, and auto-generates remediation PRs against compliance frameworks.
Enriches leads, surfaces deal risks, drafts outbound sequences, and processes call transcripts. Keeps the entire revenue pipeline visible without manual data entry.
Solar performance modeling, grid interconnection workflows, degradation prediction, and dispatch optimization. Handles the regulatory filings and telemetry that used to take a full-time analyst.
Writes production code, creates test suites, manages deployments. Handles multi-file refactors and migration scripts. Ships continuously so nothing sits in a queue.
The Math Changed.
So Did We.
Talent used to be a commodity you hired by the hour. Now it's an assembly — people, AI, and modern tooling working together to ship what used to take fifty. That's not a pitch, it's just what's possible now. It creates margins and speed that didn't exist a few years ago, and we pass that forward. If you've got a hard problem worth solving, we probably have an unusually good way to approach it.
Currently In Flight
Active builds across consumer AI, agtech, venue operations, and utility-scale energy — plus the site you're looking at, which is its own kind of proof. Two public sites, one closed design-partner beta, one 10 MW project working through interconnection in the Mojave, and one recursive demo. Real engineering, real systems, shipping in 2026 and beyond — not case studies from five years ago.
The Tools Change. The Approach Doesn't.
Infrastructure
Power systems, sensor networks, field hardware. We work in the physical world and build the software that runs alongside it.
Software
Web platforms, internal tools, client systems. Clean builds that do what they're supposed to do and don't fall over.
Integration
Most real work lives between systems. We connect hardware to dashboards, APIs to workflows, and legacy to modern — without ripping everything out.
Operations
Process, logistics, coordination. We help teams run better by building the systems behind the scenes.
AI & Automation
We use AI and automation to make everything we build faster and smarter. It's part of how we work, not a thing we sell.
Complex Problems
Some projects don't fit in a box. Multiple disciplines, unclear scope, inherited messes. We figure it out and make it work.
How We Work
The old way was long timelines, big teams, and a lot of waiting. That math doesn't apply anymore. We run lean, move in tight cycles, and ship working systems while most shops are still scheduling kickoffs. Four phases, nothing wasted.
Understand
Every project is different. We learn what we're walking into — the systems, the people, and the constraints that actually matter.
Design
We map the whole project, not just one layer. Hardware, software, operations — whatever the build needs, we plan it together.
Build
Real progress, every week. You see working systems as we go — not a reveal at the end.
Run
Projects don't end at launch. We keep the systems running, improving, and adapting as conditions change.
We Take On 4–6 Projects at a Time.
If yours is next, let's scope it.
Tell Us What You're Building →This Site Is a Demonstration.
A portfolio site can show you work. This one lets you feel it. Scroll any direction and you're inside a custom WebGL engine driving five distinct 3D scenes, theme-reactive content, and an email pipeline that matches whatever world you were in when you wrote us. Real client systems look nothing like this — they're orchestrated services, data platforms, and AI pipelines running in production. What's consistent is the discipline.
Stack fits the job.
This site is intentionally a single index.html because that's what a fast, immersive portfolio needed — no build pipeline, one request to the wire, smooth on a modern phone. A distributed energy platform is a different animal: services, queues, telemetry, audit trails, live data at scale. We pick the stack that serves the problem.
Five real-time 3D worlds.
Each theme is a custom WebGL scene on Three.js r170 — GLSL fragment and vertex shaders, instanced geometry, GPU particle systems. Aurora drifts fourteen borealis curtains. Orb is volumetric raymarching. Cathedral floats 60,000 crystals through a 16-pillar nave. Elysian grows roughly 850,000 blades of grass, understory, and wildflowers in real time — same density on an iPhone as on desktop.
Craft in the corners.
Framerate-independent camera damping. A transform-driven virtual scroll on iOS because Safari's momentum compositor can't be adjusted mid-fling. A custom bright-pass / 9-tap Gaussian / composite post-processing pipeline. The hard parts are where taste shows.
AI as leverage, not autopilot.
We move fast because we direct modern AI tooling with real architectural judgment — the stack, the shaders, the performance budget, the failure modes. Every decision on screen is one we own and can defend.
Got Something Worth Building?
A few quick questions. A real human replies within 24 hours — usually faster.
