Founder & leadership
Who runs vocabotics
Jon Ross
Founder & Director
Jon founded vocabotics in 2026 and is its sole director. He leads the research, both products (NovaTerra, the lab’s personal AI operating system, and vocabotics Console, the AI-run company OS for small businesses) and every client engagement personally.
Before vocabotics he spent fifteen years engineering safety-critical rail and metro systems on projects worldwide. Alongside that came four years of independent AI research: around seventy projects in his own lab, with what shipped and what didn’t published in the Honesty Ledger, culminating in NovaTerra.
The team is deliberately small: one founder, a fleet of AI agents that do build work under review, and specialist associates brought in when a project needs them.