[soulofmischief]

Sorry to hear that... I had high hopes for Bra Theory.

Our biggest challenge was not the technology, but the underlying methodology.

We could not automate that which we did not know how to do by hand.

I like applying the inverse of this. If I don't know how to do something, I try to automate/simulate it, and this creates for me an organic path to the knowledge I seek by creating problems which can be solved. Perhaps your algorithm simply needs further refinement.

I was brash, and thought that with the right team, we could accelerate centuries of learning into six months and a trade secret

Ah. You didn't give yourself enough time. A research project like this is 2 years minimum, 10 years on the long side. But it has to be done if we are ever going to push the envelope.

Perhaps scaling down the company to just research and consulting for the time being would provide a way to continue in your spare time.

[nestorD]

Reading the description, I though that there is enough interesting, high-level, material for a few phD thesis (algorithm, material science, industrialisation of a process, etc).

I would love it if the author found a way to keep the research effort going in an academic setting.