Company

AI Foresight Agent

GistFlow helps organizations shift from reactive analytics to proactive, decision-centric intelligence at scale.

Research

Start from an operating question and gather source-backed facts, constraints, and signals teams can inspect.

Forecast

Predict demand, lead time, and manage risks and disruptions with confidence.

Decide

Turn research and forecasts into actionable insights that drive decisions.

Why we built it

Data science is hard, GistFlow made it easy.

Organizations have more data than ever, but turning scattered signals into timely decisions still requires expert analysts, custom models, and slow handoffs across tools.

GistFlow was created to make that work accessible: ask in natural language, conduct in-depth research, forecast what comes next, run what-if scenarios, and act with a shared evidence trail.

Initially focused on supply chain operations, GistFlow pioneers a fundamentally new category of AI — the foresight agent that doesn't just support decisions, but anticipates what's coming and acts on it.

Plan, Source, Make, Deliver workflow connected by judgment, evidence signals, and forecast-to-action feedback

Our story

5 years of compounding research into one platform.

Mar 2021 Source

COVID-19 Modeling

Ranked #1 by the CDC for forecast performance.

Jan 2024 Source

DARPA AIE Project

$1M grant for Scientific Foundation Models.

Oct 2025 Source

Zephyrus

Weather science agent released.

Jan 2026

GistFlow

Foresight agent platform launches.

Research foundations

Forecasting, credible AI, and agentic systems applied to operations.

01

Physics-Informed forecasting

Models that reason over demand, lead times, weather, and operational movement across time and space.

02

Credible AI

Forecasts and recommendations need uncertainty, calibration, and evidence teams can inspect.

03

Multimodal Agentic systems

Research workflows that plan, decompose, execute, verify, and return structured outputs across texts and spatiotemporal data.

Founding team

Founders with research and production AI experience.

Rose Yu

Rose Yu

Co-Founder & CEO

Faculty, Computer Science at UC San Diego; physical AI and spatiotemporal learning; MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 in AI; 2025 Samsung AI Researcher of the Year; traffic forecasting model deployed in Google Maps.

Physical AI · spatiotemporal learning

Yian Ma

Yian Ma

Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer

Faculty, Data Science at UC San Diego; credible AI and scalable inference; COVID-19 forecasting model ranked #1 nationally.

Credible AI · scalable inference

Zihao Zhou

Zihao Zhou

Co-Founder & CTO

PhD, Computer Science at UC San Diego; previously developed agentic systems at Apple; 1st paper on LLMs for time series anomaly detection.

Multimodal AI · agentic systems

Company facts

Based in San Diego. Built for foresight at operational scale.

Founded
2026
Headquarters
San Diego, California
Focus
AI foresight agent platform, initially focused on supply chain operations
Contact
contact@gistflow.ai

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