It Began With Frogs. It Became a Mission for the Living Planet.
Two founders. One shared inspiration. An extraordinary ambition to support life, understand the living world, and develop a new form of intelligence dedicated to discovering what makes living systems thrive.
Two Founders. One Shared Inspiration.
Sometimes the Biggest Ideas Begin With the Smallest Creatures.
For both of SymSyn's founders, frogs became a source of fascination, concern, and inspiration. These remarkable animals connect aquatic and terrestrial environments, play vital roles in food webs, and can reveal important changes in the conditions supporting life.
But they also inspired a question that would eventually grow far beyond amphibians.
What if we could do more than protect wildlife? What if we could discover what living systems actually need to thrive?
Our Curiosity Became a Conviction.
We began imagining technologies that could provide food, water, and shelter for native wildlife while creating opportunities to observe what happens within those habitats. The deeper we explored this possibility, the bigger the questions became.
Could we connect wildlife behavior with environmental conditions? Could we understand why some habitats succeed while others struggle? Could discoveries made tomorrow reveal new meaning in observations collected years earlier?
What began with habitat innovation evolved into the vision for Ecological Intelligence.
We Believe Humanity Can Build a Different Relationship With Nature.
The living world is not separate from civilization. It sustains our food, water, health, economies, and the future of our children.
We founded SymSyn with the belief that technology should do more than reduce humanity's impact on nature. It should help us support living systems, understand their extraordinary complexity, and learn how to coexist with them more intelligently.
Frogs inspired our beginning. Understanding and supporting the living planet has become our mission.
From Supporting Habitats to Understanding Life
What began as a desire to help wildlife grew into an ambition to understand the living world itself.
Support Life
Give Nature More Places to Thrive.
Our journey began with habitat innovation: developing technologies intended to provide food, water, shelter, and refuge for native wildlife.
Froggy Forts™ became an early expression of that mission, establishing the foundation for an expanding family of Habitat Nodze™ and Nature Nodze™ technologies.
Understand Life
What Happens After We Create a Habitat?
Supporting wildlife inspired a deeper question: How do we know whether our technologies are helping?
SymSyn's vision expanded toward purpose-built scientific infrastructure capable of observing biological activity, measuring environmental conditions, and preserving ecological evidence over time.
We want to understand not simply what happens in nature, but why.
Discover What Makes Life Thrive
What If Nature Could Help Reveal Answers We Haven't Yet Imagined?
These questions ultimately inspired Ecological Intelligence, SymSyn's developing vision for a new form of AI grounded in ecological science.
By connecting observations, environmental measurements, accumulated knowledge, and Ecological Memory, EI aims to investigate relationships, revisit historical evidence, and eventually help guide new scientific discoveries.
Our ambition extends far beyond habitat technology: to help humanity understand the living planet in an entirely new way.
What We Believe
The Living World Is Not Separate From Us. It Sustains Us.
Nature is not simply something beautiful to admire or something distant to protect. It is the living foundation of our food, water, health, economies, and future generations.
We believe human progress should include creating better conditions for life, not simply reducing the damage we cause.
Supporting the living world means investing in our own future.
Nature Still Has Extraordinary Secrets to Reveal.
Despite centuries of scientific discovery, much of the living world remains beyond our continuous understanding.
We believe every organism, habitat, and ecosystem has something to teach us. With persistent observation, scientific investigation, and the courage to question established assumptions, humanity could discover relationships and possibilities we have not yet imagined.
The greatest discoveries may begin with questions we don't yet know to ask.
Good Intentions Are Not Enough. We Must Discover What Actually Works.
Building habitats, restoring landscapes, and protecting species are important. But our responsibility should extend beyond the actions we take.
We believe scientific evidence must help us understand how living systems respond, whether our efforts make a difference, and what we can learn from both success and failure.
Our ultimate measure of progress is not simply what humanity does for nature. It is what life actually gains.
We founded SymSyn because we believe technology, scientific curiosity, and human ingenuity can help civilization develop a more intelligent relationship with the living world.
Support Life. Collect Evidence. Discover What Works.
Turning an Extraordinary Vision Into Reality
We Didn't Stop at Asking What If.
What began with an idea inspired by frogs has grown into an expanding family of ecological technologies designed to support native wildlife, observe living systems, and help advance scientific understanding.
SymSyn has developed 12 Habitat Nodze™ and Nature Nodze™ product designs, secured issued U.S. patents, and demonstrated early consumer interest through our Froggy Forts™ Kickstarter campaign.
Our first consumer products are approaching manufacturing readiness, with engineering, testing, and production preparations advancing.
We're working to turn an ambitious vision into technologies that can make a difference in the living world.
We Are Building the Science Behind the Vision.
Our ambition extends far beyond developing physical products.
SymSyn has created a 14-volume Scientific Foundation exploring ecological infrastructure, biological observation, scientific evidence, Ecosystem Performance, and the architecture for Ecological Intelligence.
This work reflects our belief that meaningful discoveries require more than powerful technology. They demand scientific discipline, reliable evidence, intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to challenge what we think we know.
We aren't simply developing instruments to observe nature. We're laying the groundwork for a new way to investigate and understand it.
The Most Important Discoveries Are Still Ahead of Us.
Our product portfolio, developing digital applications, intellectual property, and scientific foundation represent the beginning of a much larger journey.
We envision a future in which purpose-built ecological infrastructure contributes to a growing scientific memory of the living world, supporting an intelligence that learns from evidence, revisits the past, investigates unanswered questions, and helps humanity discover what makes life thrive.
We know the vision is enormous. We also believe that extraordinary futures are built through the work we undertake today.
Meet the Founders
Different Expertise. One Extraordinary Ambition. SymSyn brings together two founders whose backgrounds span invention, engineering, business leadership, commercialization, and scientific innovation. United by a shared inspiration and an ambition to help the living world thrive, they are working to build something far greater than a traditional ecological technology company.
Gary Schlemmer
Founder | Chief Visionary Officer & Chief Design Officer
The Inventor Behind the Infrastructure.
Gary is the inventor and visionary behind SymSyn's modular habitat technology and the HabiTechTure™ concept.
With more than three decades of experience supporting space launch operations and weather systems, Gary brings a background in complex technologies, systems thinking, and invention.
His work laid the physical foundation for SymSyn: purpose-built technologies designed to support native wildlife, observe ecological conditions, and ultimately contribute to a new scientific infrastructure for the living world.
His vision began with helping wildlife. It has grown toward reimagining how humanity interacts with nature.
Kyle Sather
Foundational CEO & Co-Founder
Building the Company and Scientific Vision for What Comes Next.
Kyle brings more than two decades of executive leadership, business development, commercialization, and organizational growth experience, including serving as CEO of Abena North America.
With a background in law and business leadership, Kyle has helped develop SymSyn's commercialization strategy, partnerships, intellectual property initiatives, and long-term organizational vision.
He also developed SymSyn's 14-volume Scientific Foundation and has helped shape the architecture and ambitions of Ecological Intelligence.
His focus is turning an extraordinary scientific and technological vision into a sustainable organization capable of bringing its innovations to the world.
His ambition is to help establish a new intelligence infrastructure dedicated to understanding and supporting the living planet.
The Future of the Living World Is a Future We Share.
What began with frogs has become an ambition to help humanity understand, support, and coexist with the living planet in an entirely new way. We're building toward a future where science, technology, and human ingenuity help reveal what living systems need to thrive. The discoveries ahead could change far more than our understanding of nature. They could change how we live alongside it. Join us in helping make that future possible.