Shimon Elkabetz wants weather forecasts to make better decisions

Tomorrow.io’s “weather intelligence” platform started with a focus on better data and eventually grew to include the company’s own constellation of satellites to cover the globe in detail, sampling every point on the planet roughly once an hour. But the CEO, Shimon Elkabetz, saw the opportunity to go farther and use agentic AI to help customers evaluate specific weather risks. Pharmaceutical companies can now use Tomorrow’s tech to plan drug deliveries ahead of a blizzard; a city manager can instantly spin up a custom dashboard to map out where to deploy snowplows. Uber can use it to position drivers before a rainstorm, when more people are likely to need rides. A sports league can use it to help decide if a game needs to be rescheduled. The platform maps out the exact shape and coordinates of a storm, and can automatically compare that to a company’s assets. It also looks at how weather disruptions create cascading effects—for example, how a delay at one airport can affect a chain of subsequent flights elsewhere. Multiple AI agents can evaluate a storm while focusing on different parts of the business, and then decide which pieces of information are most critical. [Illustration: Derek Abella] The platform helps companies build and refine protocols, some of which are automated. As a storm progresses, businesses can ask the system for new tools in real time—for example, to create a new dashboard with alerts as the storm progresses. It also helps customers track the outcome of decisions that they make in response. As customers add their own data, the agentic AI continues to improve. “Together, this creates a double-sided flywheel,” says Elkabetz. “Improved forecasts drive better decisions, which generate more data, which in turn further enhances the forecasts.” This profile is part of Fast Company’s AI 20 for 2026, our roundup spotlighting 20 of AI’s most influential technologists, entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, and creative thinkers.