History
Grant Renier, founder and CEO of NeuroFission, has been nurturing decision making technologies over several decades.
After receiving engineering and master's degrees from two leading universities, Renier spent the first ten years of his career with two Fortune 500 companies developing decision making systems. In the 1970s, Renier launched a decision making technology arising from studies by the Santa Fe Institute to "uncover the mechanisms that underlie the deep simplicity present in our complex world." This work was combined with his research of cognitive processes while making decisions. Later in the 1970s, he introduced a forecasting application for the commodities market and in the 1980s followed with an application to monitor tire pressure, temperature, and forecast wear in automotive components. In more recent years, Renier teamed up with professors of mechanical engineering and mathematics at leading universities, with which his technology was used to study the control of power plant turbines and machine tools and their failures due to resonance.
Renier's experience and ongoing studies of the behavioral sciences led him to conclude that using human decision making processes to analyze and predict events in segments of time could equal and surpass the performances of regression analysis and other methods of orthodox statistical decision making currently used in technical applications. NF is the result of that conclusion.
Using a baseball metaphor to describe NF's real-world, highly reactive approach to predicting behavior in complex systems, Renier says, "When the ball is in the air, history hardly matters."
