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Conductor Quantum

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Founded 2024Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Conductor Quantum is building quantum superintelligence: AI that operates quantum computers to make scientific discoveries beyond human reach.

Quantum computers let us understand the world at its most fundamental level, the path to new drugs, new materials, and discoveries no human can reach alone.

A quantum computer is the perfect simulator of nature: it encodes the logic of reality into a programmable machine, atom by atom, electron by electron. Give AI that simulator and you open the door to discovery.

The bottleneck is operating the hardware. Today, engineers spend days or weeks by hand to bring a chip to operating conditions for just two qubits. A qubit is the information-carrying unit of a quantum computer, the equivalent of a bit in a classical one, and a useful machine needs billions.

Removing the human from that loop is only half the problem. Every command an AI sends to a quantum computer must be optimised for the specific hardware it runs on.

We build the AI that operates quantum computers and tunes every machine it runs on. That is the path to quantum superintelligence.

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Pricing

Paid plans unlock GPU-accelerated simulation up to 29 qubits using NVIDIA cuQuantum and CUDA-Q.

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Founders & team

Brandon Severin

Founder/CEO

Building quantum superintelligence. During my PhD at Oxford, I worked with 4 quantum institutions across the globe (IST Austria, Basel, UNSW, Diraq), developing AI for semiconductor quantum device control and published 4 papers on the topic including one in Nature.

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Joel Pendleton

Founder/CTO

Co-founder of Conductor Quantum, building software for quantum computers. I’ve worked at many deep tech startups and research labs, exploring various quantum computing technologies — from carbon nanotubes to superconducting transmon qubits. I left my PhD at Oxford to start Conductor Quantum.

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