Our Approach
Design With an AI Agent
Tell METHEUS what you want to build. It helps develop mechanisms, analyze performance, and prepare reports, while you make the final design decisions.
IDeAOcean
From Ideas to Engineered Products
IDeA: Intelligent Design Automation
Our Vision
Anyone Can Turn Ideas into Products
We envision a world where people can explore designs, share knowledge, and move promising ideas toward production.
Our Mission
Design That Starts from Engineering Principles
METHEUS uses its proprietary design engine to address what general-purpose LLMs cannot ensure: whether a design is accurate and buildable. Grounded in engineering principles, it provides clear reasoning and verifiable results.
Our Team
CEOJungho Kim, Ph.D.
CTOJongjun Lee, Ph.D.
Technical AdvisorProf. Yoon Young Kim
Product & Business
- Business development & sales
- Marketing & planning
- METHEUS HUB management
Software Development
- METHEUS R&D
- AI tool development
- Core technology development
Mechanical Design
- Design solution delivery
- Product planning & improvement
- Validation & data management
Operations
- Finance & accounting
- HR
- IP & legal
Our Origin
IDeAOcean was founded in 2023 as a spin-off from SNU IDeA Lab.
Building on over 20 years of mechanical design automation research, we create AI systems that help anyone turn ideas into products.
Our History
IDeAOcean's Journey
2026.09
Launched the METHEUS open beta
2026.02
Selected for KDB NextONE Batch 12
2026.01
Won a Merit Award at HKSTP Techathon 10A+
2026.01
Exhibited at CES 2026 and joined a Silicon Valley program
Address
3F, 535, Bongcheon-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
R&D Center
1861, Nambusunhwan-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Contact
contact@ideaocean.ai