Mission
Founded 2024
Birmingham, AL

An AI co-pilot for the operators who protect our water.

Nyad builds practical, operator-focused technology for industrial wastewater treatment - transforming one of the most critical and underserved jobs in infrastructure from manual and reactive to intelligent and proactive.

Industrial wastewater treatment plant - aerial view
The Problem

Tools barely changed since the 1970s.

Industrial wastewater treatment is one of the most critical functions in modern infrastructure. The biology inside a treatment plant - the microorganisms breaking down contaminants - determines whether a facility stays in compliance or discharges toxins into a river.

But operators have almost no visibility into that biology. Traditional analysis requires sending samples to a lab and waiting days for results. By then, the problem has grown. Costs have increased. Compliance is at risk.

The operators told us they lack both the tools and the people. We set out to build both.

What We Heard

"The biological aspects of water treatment were both the most challenging and the most neglected part of the process."

Virginia Szepietowski - Co-Founder & CEO

"The operators told me they lack both the tools and the people."

Virginia Szepietowski - after months on-site at treatment facilities
Our Vision

Operators are the heroes of this story.

They are the final line of defense between toxic industrial wastewater and our precious waterways. That responsibility deserves world-class tools.

Nyad is named for the Naiad - ancient Greek guardians of rivers and freshwater. That name is a promise: to build technology worthy of the people protecting our water every day.

We envision a world where operators are empowered by the latest in AI - not replaced by it. Their expertise, combined with Nyad's intelligence, is how we get to a world of abundant clean water.

What We're Building Toward

Purpose
Create a world of abundant clean water
Mission
Craft a practical, operator-focused AI co-pilot
Vision
Operators: from reactive to intelligent and proactive
Belief
Operators have thousands of problems. We have thousands of answers.