The founders who couldn't ignore the AI ROI problem

OUR STORY

The research

Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee spent years studying how AI changes work — research that shaped how the world thinks about AI and the workforce.

The gap

None of it answered what every executive is now asking: can we quantify the ROI of our AI? Adoption had raced ahead of measurement.

The build

James Milin saw that gap from the operator's side and brought them together to build the platform that closes it.

today

That became Workhelix. Every dollar a company spends on AI now comes with a real answer behind it — today and next quarter.

Founding team

Erik Brynjolfsson

Co-Founder & Co-Chairman of the Board

Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Professor at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and Research Associate at the NBER. Among the most cited researchers in information and economics.

Ten Best Paper awardsFive patents

Andrew McAfee

Co-Founder & Co-Chairman of the Board

Co-Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan. Has studied how digital technologies change the business world across his career at MIT and Harvard.

MIT SloanAdvises governments

James Milin

Co-Founder and CEO

Brings experience from Google and Amazon. Co-founded a venture-funded AI platform business in the Bay Area and was a founding member of the AWS Private Equity sales team, leading transformations for hundreds of enterprises.

Google · AmazonAWS Private Equity

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