About RootCause.ai

Causal Decision Intelligence Without the Overhead

RootCause.ai brings causal intelligence once reserved for elite teams, bespoke projects, and massive budgets into a repeatable, scalable platform. We make it possible to run high-impact causal analysis across your organization without months of work or armies of specialists.

Causal Analysis used to be slow, expensive, and out of reach for most enterprises. RootCause.ai makes causal decision intelligence available to anyone in a fast, repeatable, and actionable way.

Our Mission

To make enterprise-grade decision intelligence practical, repeatable, and trustworthy at scale.

We remove the cost, time, and expertise barriers that have historically limited advanced analysis to a handful of the biggest companies. RootCause.ai lets companies use the same advanced decision-making rigor for day-to-day operations as well as major strategic moves.

Our Vision

A future where every important decision can be tested before it's made.

We envision organizations that move faster with less waste, operate with greater confidence, and replace guesswork with explainable, data-driven action. RootCause.ai is the decision intelligence layer that makes this possible.

The RootCause.ai Difference

Built for Continuous Decisions

Causal Analysis has often been tied to expensive one-off projects. RootCause.ai provides an automated, generalized approach for hundreds of decisions, continuously.

Speed Without Sacrificing Rigor

What once took months of data engineering work and manual analysis now happens in minutes or hours.

Enterprise-Ready by Design

Works with multi-source data, in its original format, wherever it lives.

Repeatable Impact

Causal Analysis is used by the world's largest and most cutting-edge data teams. Now it's available for any enterprise, and any decision.

Meet the Founding Team

Dr. Ayman Elhalwagy

Dr. Ayman Elhalwagy

Co-Founder & CEO

Ayman is the visionary behind RootCause.ai, driven by a passion to solve enterprise decision complexity. His PhD research in Computer Engineering, deployed by NASA and in 8-figure mining portfolios, p...

Dr. Jonas Skackauskas

Dr. Jonas Skackauskas

Co-Founder & CTO

Jonas leads RootCause.ai's technological architecture, bringing deep expertise in AI, combinatorial optimization, and scalable system design. His PhD in Artificial Intelligence alongside Ayman laid fu...

Jake Friedenberg

Jake Friedenberg

Co-Founder & COO

Jake is a seasoned Go-To-Market leader with a proven track record of scaling early-stage deep-tech startups. As employee #3 at Tonic.ai, he built the sales organization from the ground up, spearheadin...

Rod Boothby

Rod Boothby

Co-Founder & CPO

Rod brings over 25 years of experience in product innovation, digital identity, and enterprise scaling. He has repeatedly designed, built and brought to market IaaS and SaaS products, including one wi...