Chabod Masere

I started General Axis because the environment I found most interesting was the one autonomy had skipped. Public roads take the attention and the funding. A container terminal is where machines already move in fixed patterns, where the same route runs a thousand times a week, and where the cost of a mistake lands on whoever is standing closest to it. I would rather spend a decade on that problem than on a more glamorous one.

Autonomy should take on the most dangerous work in the terminal, so the people who run it can focus on what they do best.

My focus is on building systems that are safe before they are anything else. An autonomous vehicle on a wharf shares space with people, machinery, and cargo worth far more than the vehicle itself. Earning the right to operate there means engineering for failure, validating in the real world, and deploying in stages that keep humans in control until the system has proven itself.

General Axis is still early, and that is the point. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, at the heart of Silicon Valley, we are building the platform, the partnerships, and the team that will define how the autonomous terminal actually works. If that mission resonates with you, whether you operate a terminal, build the systems that run one, or want to help engineer the technology, I would like to hear from you.