Brett Levenson-Arkin led Integrity at Meta. Ash Bhardwaj led AI infrastructure at Apple. Each saw the same gap from: organizations with clear intentions, and AI systems that didn't reliably honor them. They founded Clavata to fix it.

As the mission grew bolder, so did the name. Moonbounce takes its name from Project Diana, a moment in time when the US Army Signal Corps refused to accept the limits of what existed—instead bouncing a signal off the moon. That's the spirit of Moonbounce: A refusal to accept the status quo. And a search for something better.