Top Tech Startups in Peoria, IL in 2026

Aethreallegence builds Inventory Cognition Infrastructure for physical retail. Our platform continuously detects where inventory records drift from physical reality, a condition we call Inventory Truth Decay, and corrects it in real time using computer vision, voice-assisted onboarding, and our proprietary Curiosity Protocol anomaly engine. Physical stores lose revenue not because they lack cameras, but because no system holds the full environment in memory. Ours does. It tracks products across the entire store, back room, coolers, counter, floor, and doors, and surfaces exceptions only when human input is needed. Staff stop counting. Operators stop guessing. We are a woman-owned, patent-pending deep-tech startup based in Peoria, Illinois. We are building the inventory truth layer that retail infrastructure has never had.