Our mission

Our mission is to arm creatives and entrepreneurs for the new era of human-to-AI workflows.

We help small business owners personalize AI models with their own data, their own preferences, their own creative spark.

Our founder

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Nathaniel Mahowald, CEO
Nathaniel is a serial founder and lifelong hacker. He started Pickaxe after leaving his position at ARK as a Research Associate. Prior to ARK, Nathaniel was the lead data scientist at Sivo, a debt-as-a-service fintech. His conviction is that generative AI is the key that will unlock the creator economy of knowledge work.