Co-Founder & CEO at Conductor Quantum
AI that operates quantum computers
Conductor Quantum builds the AI that operates quantum computers. Today engineers spend days, sometimes weeks, by hand bringing a silicon chip to the conditions where a single qubit forms, and a useful machine needs billions of them. Brandon developed AI for quantum device control in silicon during his PhD at Oxford, working with four quantum institutions and publishing on the topic, including in Nature. Conductor Quantum (YC S24) ships two products: Coda, a natural language interface that builds, verifies and runs quantum programs on hardware from IonQ, IQM, Rigetti, AQT and IBM, and Control, calibration software for superconducting, spin, trapped-ion and photonic systems. It has run its software across 64 SemiQon devices and shipped control software to Quobly and EeroQ.
Brandon Severin is the co-founder and CEO of Conductor Quantum, which builds AI that operates quantum computers. He developed AI for quantum device control in silicon during his PhD at Oxford, worked with four quantum institutions, and has published on the topic including in Nature.
A Y Combinator S24 company building the software layer that runs quantum computers: AI that brings hardware to operating conditions and tunes every machine it runs on. The company frames the goal as quantum superintelligence, AI operating quantum computers to make discoveries beyond human reach.
Getting qubits out of a chip. Engineers spend days, sometimes weeks, manually configuring a silicon chip to create a qubit, and a useful quantum computer needs billions of them. Removing the human from that loop is the bottleneck the company attacks.
A natural language interface for quantum computing. You describe the problem, Coda builds the circuit, verifies the code and runs it. It connects to cloud QPUs from IonQ, IQM, Rigetti, AQT and IBM, and includes GPU-accelerated simulation.
Conductor's calibration software for quantum computers of any size, with gate tune-up, readout optimization and crosstalk mitigation. It is hardware agnostic across superconducting, spin, trapped-ion and photonic systems.
Conductor built the first API for low-level silicon quantum chip control, ran its software across 64 devices from chip maker SemiQon, and has shipped quantum control software to companies including Quobly and EeroQ.
