
He grew up welding beside his father, studied how machines learn, and stayed in Ohio when the usual startup map pointed west. Now Andrew Lonsberry is asking robots to master the unruly work that factories could never quite automate.

A sixth-grade encounter with BASIC led to a career in code, a roadside Chili’s led to Test Double, and a stubborn question about fairness led its founders to give the company to its employees.

After helping scale two Columbus startups, Priyang Shah returned to a stubborn piece of household math. His answer became Healia - and a case study in building ambitious software from Ohio.