INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
chains.Co-founded by former Tesla employees Michael Rossiter and Neal Suidan, Atomic was created inside DVx Ventures, the firm run by former
Tesla president Jon McNeill
Atomic plans to deploy its agentic AI with customers to make inventory planning faster and easier
In one case, the customer was able to cut inventory levels in half while maintaining a 99% in-stock rate.Being able to strike a balance like
that frees up working capital that a business can use in other places, while also reducing risk, McNeill said
The company claims it has helped those customers reduce inventory costs by 20% to 50%.With so much uncertainty in the world right now,
writing a custom application for every customer
out, and can pull all the levers in the plan
have gone on to found their own startups, including former CTO JB Straubel (Redwood Materials) and, most recently, former SVP Drew Baglino
Instead of just taking skills learned at Tesla and applying them to new problems, Suidan and Rossiter are building Atomic around a
philosophy they developed together at the automaker
was planned when we started was a dozen different teams working in isolation, passing these spreadsheets around, trying to tie it together
once a week to present executives some summary of a plan, and then spending most of the rest of the week, chasing our tail, trying to figure
While Rossiter left Tesla shortly after the ramp-up of the Model 3, Suidan stuck around until 2022
