THE PEOPLE BEHIND PLAQ.
Plaq started with an engineer's ear and a data problem. Kombat knew how records get finished. Anmol knew how to teach a machine to do it — then show its work.
Co-founder · Engineer
Roberto “Kombat” Jimenez
01 / 02
Stop mixing. Start creating.
Hey, I'm Kombat. I've spent my life bridging the gap between raw emotion and technical perfection, from classically trained piano at age six to a production degree at Pinnacle College. Along the way I learned exactly what makes a record feel right, and exactly what it takes to get one there.
For over ten years I ran a busy studio cutting Hip-Hop, Trap, Pop, and Rock. That grind led to two Gold plaques and a #1 on the TikTok Billboard. More importantly, it put me on the other side of the glass, session after session, watching the same thing happen: the vision was already there. The engineering, the EQ, the compression, the routing, was what kept getting in the way. And I knew that most artists don't have my room, my hardware, or ten years to spend learning what I learned.
Eventually I stepped out of the studio and into the AI tech industry, and that's where I met my business partner, Anmol. Between the two of us, we had the engineer's ear and the technical firepower to finally do something about that gap. So we started building Plaq.
Plaq puts a real engineer inside your recording process. It listens to your actual take, makes the moves a seasoned engineer would make, in the right order and only as hard as the song needs, then shows you every decision and lets you change any of it. In fact, the AI engineer inside Plaq is named Kombat for a reason. It's my judgment, my workflow, and my rules for what you can and can't do to a record.
Because every plaque on my studio wall started as a song somebody almost didn't finish. Plaq exists so you finish yours.
Co-founder · Engineering
Anmol Singh
02 / 02
The best engineering is the kind you never notice.
Hey, I'm Anmol. I spent my career working with data at big tech companies like Tesla, Apple, and Western Digital. At Tesla I even helped teach the Optimus robot how to use its hands. My job was always the same: look at what a machine is really doing, find what's wrong, and make it better.
Somewhere along the way I noticed a problem in music. Anyone can record a song at home now, but making it sound good is hard. Only a few people know how, and they spent years learning it. Everybody else is stuck.
Then I met Kombat. He was one of those few people, a real engineer with ten years in the studio and two Gold plaques on the wall. He knew the sound. I knew the data. So we teamed up and built Plaq.
Plaq is like having Kombat sitting next to you while you record. It listens to your song, fixes it the way a pro would, and then tells you what it did so you can learn and change it. No guessing. No secrets.
We didn't build Plaq to replace the engineer. We built it so every artist finally gets one.