Will Taubenheim has launched Next Pillar, an AI implementation firm for established, owner-led companies. It installs a private company brain and a simple app the team actually uses, built in person over a few weeks.
Will Taubenheim has opened Next Pillar Academy, an online AI community and school for business owners, with a live call every week, a classroom that starts at the beginning, and AI News.
Will Taubenheim's team, Terasynth, took second place overall in NASA's LunaRecycle prototype competition and won People's Choice at the Alabama finale. Four NASA awards in NASA's largest Centennial Challenge, with more than 1,200 registrations.
Will Taubenheim will deliver the opening keynote at the Greater Brookfield Chamber of Commerce half-day AI workshop for Wisconsin business owners, June 30, 2026.
Will Taubenheim led the AIMS-Cert digital twin architecture down-selected by Air Force Global Strike Command for automated additive manufacturing flight certification.
Will Taubenheim's team won the NASA LunaRecycle Phase 2 Digital Twin Milestone, his second of four NASA awards, extending prize-winning lunar waste recycling digital twin work into advanced prototypes.
Will Taubenheim published The Foundations Are Cracking, a 248,000-word State of AI 2026 intelligence briefing with 200+ sources via Lost Frame Ventures.
Will Taubenheim works as a Google partner with the Gemini team on AI integration, Workspace deployments, and production model workflows for Lost Frame clients.
Will Taubenheim delivered a keynote on AI strategy and implementation to Entrepreneurs' Organization DC, drawing on NASA, DoD, and enterprise delivery experience.
Will Taubenheim's team won Phase 1 of NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge, Digital Twin track, out of more than 1,200 registered teams, the first of four NASA awards.
Will Taubenheim delivered ARFAS, an autonomous wildfire suppression system awarded by NAWCTSD and SERDP for U.S. military wildfire response using ground vehicles and edge AI.
Will Taubenheim co-founded RareOS, an AI operating system for the $462B buy/sell/trade market, and advanced as a finalist in The Ventures Miami competition.
Will Taubenheim presented at I/ITSEC, the defense simulation industry's flagship conference, on training systems, fire detection, and AI for military simulation.
Will Taubenheim placed 2nd in the utility app category at Meta's NYC Hackathon and competed in Meta SF, building rapid Quest MR prototypes for production-scale mixed reality.
Will Taubenheim engineered ReArmor, a VR exposure therapy platform with UCF RESTORES and Dr. Deborah Beidel, publicly positioned at 200% improvement over traditional PTSD care.
Will Taubenheim was technical lead on Escape the Backrooms, a co-op horror game with 130K+ Steam reviews and millions of players, contracted via Lost Frame Ventures.
Will Taubenheim won an Epic Games MegaGrant for multiplayer combat built on Unreal Engine, reaching millions of users and funding next-generation game systems.
After winning the Meta Presence Platform Grant, Will Taubenheim consulted at Meta HQ on Quest 3 development and shipped stereoscopic VR systems on Unreal Engine 5.