
Marisa Ferrara Boston, PhD
After years in AI, R&D, and consulting, I saw the same challenge repeated across industries: AI systems being deployed without truly understanding how they would behave in complex, real-world conditions with boundedly rational humans.
I started Reins AI to change that: to help organizations understand how their system is performing, or will perform, in real production environments. This isn’t about dashboards or demos: it’s about deeper understanding, stronger organizations, and more cooperative AI.

Effi Georgala, PhD
I started out as a computational linguist and spent over a decade building speech and language products at Nuance and Microsoft, from speech recognition in 45 languages to agentic systems for business applications. What stayed with me is how much of quality is decided after the model is built: whether a problem gets noticed, whether it reaches someone who can fix it, and whether anyone can show that the fix held.
At Reins AI, that’s my job: working out which signals from an agentic system deserve a person’s attention, getting them to the right person with the evidence attached, and turning what we find into fixes the build team can use. I’m based in Switzerland and work in English and German.

Glen Hanson
I've worked in various tech and consulting roles, but I started out as a military weather forecaster, leading both operational and data/modeling teams supporting live missions. I learned that decision makers still need to act when the model is uncertain, and doing that well takes an honest accounting of how the forecast system performs.
At Reins, that's my job: measuring how AI systems really behave, and building the architecture that supports better decisions.

Heather Frase, Phd
Testing and Verification Methodology
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