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EVOSCo-building an industrial AI venture with Urav Shah.
Utopia worked inside the EVOS team, bringing technical expertise and cloud infrastructure to Urav Shah’s industrial know-how. The collaboration supported a venture that shipped reusable AI skills, reached customer operations and attracted a $9M pre-seed round.
/THE CHALLENGE
The expertise existed. It needed a way to scale.
EVOS began with the knowledge of experienced industrial operators: how to handle a freight exception, interpret an inspection report or make a decision when a process breaks down. Much of that knowledge sits with people rather than in documentation. The build challenge was to turn it into AI operators that could do useful work inside existing business systems.
/THE CO-BUILD
How Utopia helped
Utopia joined Urav’s team with technical expertise and optimised cloud infrastructure from day one. Urav brought the operating knowledge; the Studio contributed the technical expertise and infrastructure alongside him. In his account of the partnership, Urav describes Utopia working deeply as part of the team.
“Utopia works deeply as part of the team. You get their expertise and optimised cloud infrastructure from day one.”
/WHAT SHIPPED
Turning domain knowledge into working skills.
The Studio’s published co-building update records a concrete release: Urav open-sourced eight Agent Skills across logistics, manufacturing and energy. Each skill was evaluated against 20–25 operating scenarios using weighted rubrics. This made specific pieces of operating knowledge reusable by AI systems, with a way to assess how they performed.
Turning domain expertise into reusable AI skills/THE PROGRESS
From the build to customers and capital.
$9M
Pre-seed funding
EVOS announced a round co-led by Uncork Capital and Field Ventures, with Utopia Capital Management among the participating investors.
Funding announcement · FreightWavesMyFreightWorld
An operator in a customer workflow
FreightWaves reports that the freight brokerage uses EVOS to check carrier invoices against its transport-management records. The product is being used for a specific operating job.
Customer deployment · FreightWaves/THE PRODUCT
A closer look at what they built.
From the EVOS Web Summit product demo
See the work happening
Follow operator activity, completed tasks and decisions that need the team’s approval.
Explore the discovery and design screens
Watch the product demo 90 sec
Silent walkthrough of the product screens shown above.
In practice: freight invoice auditing
An operator compares carrier invoices with transport-management records and flags billing discrepancies for review.