Posie Pots is an innovative plant-care company creating patented, self-watering planters that make growing healthy plants simple, sustainable, and stress-free. Designed by mechanical engineer and founder Kay Wells, our electricity-free system provides plants with water as needed for up to 30 days, helping prevent overwatering, underwatering, and root rot. Made using eco-friendly, corn-based materials and advanced 3D printing, Posie Pots serves busy plant parents, new gardeners, businesses, universities, retailers, and organizations seeking custom-branded planters and sustainable gifts. Posie Pots exists because keeping plants alive shouldn’t be complicated. We combine engineering, sustainability, and thoughtful design to make plant care accessible.

Kay Wells is a mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, and Founder & CEO of Posie Pots, a patented self-watering planter company making plant care simple, sustainable, and effortless. After a career in aerospace and advanced manufacturing, Kay turned her engineering expertise and love of gardening into an innovative consumer brand, spending years prototyping and 3D printing before patenting Posie Pots’ electricity-free self-watering technology.

Her entrepreneurial journey has earned national recognition, including winning the 2025 WBENC Pitch Competition, receiving a Walmart Open Call Gold Ticket, being named a U.S. Chamber of Commerce CO—100 Honoree, and participating in Nasdaq Milestone Makers. Posie Pots has collaborated with Howie Mandel and was featured on a Times Square billboard in New York City.

Kay also uses entrepreneurship to create pathways into STEM. Through Posie Workshops and STEM for You and partnerships with organizations including AMIC STL, she helps introduce students and emerging talent to 3D printing, engineering, and manufacturing careers. Kay is building more than a product—she is using innovation to grow a sustainable business and inspire the next generation of makers, engineers, and entrepreneurs.