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What we do

Two kinds of leverage. Both change how the business runs.

Almost everything we take on is one of these two. We build the systems and stay until they hold up in production.

Operating leverage

Make the organization run.

We find the bottlenecks, the backlogs, and the risk a business has quietly learned to live with, and we clear them. What is left runs faster and costs less to run.

Product leverage

Build what is not there yet.

We build the capability that was not there before: a new product, a new market, or an edge that is hard to copy. The thing you have wanted to build for years, finally in production.

Our bar

We are not a consulting firm, and we do not bill by the hour. We take on the problems that are hard and that matter, and we pass on the rest. If you are not sure which of yours those are, that is part of the first conversation.

How we work

The hard part is rarely the technology. It is the organization.

Everyone feels a mandate to integrate AI. Most of the difficulty is not in the tools - it is that the organization is not built to take them on. We work alongside you to find the real constraint, make room for the change, and build the systems that outlast us.

1

Scope

We sit with your executives to get clear on the goals and the constraints - and which of the constraints are actually real.

2

Prioritize

We find where the organization can actually absorb change, and start with the few problems worth solving first.

3

Build

We build the systems the operation is missing, on your own data and in your own stack, running in production.

4

Run and compound

We run them with you until they hold - until each one has a clear owner on your team and numbers that prove it works. Each system makes the next one faster.

Where we start

One thing up front: we work inside the plan you already have. We are not there to replace your team or hand down a strategy - we join it, push where it needs pushing, and build the parts that are missing.

The work

What we have already shipped.

A sample, briefly described and de-identified. Real problems, working systems, in production. Open any one to read what we built.

A pipeline-inspection firm. We replaced an outsourced GIS and mapping vendor with an in-app engine, plus a working field-QC app that runs in production. The data, the maps, and the quality control now live inside their own tool, on their own terms.

A minerals shop. We built an AI agent that turns regulatory filings into a live ownership database, plus a full deal-workflow system, live in production. Filings that used to be read by hand now resolve into ownership and opportunity on their own.

A commercial real estate debt brokerage. Workflow agents that cut source-package review time, so analysts spend their hours on judgment instead of assembly. The grunt work compresses; the thinking gets the time it deserves.

A firm that has handled nearly half a billion dollars in client funds. We built a thinking engine that multiplies their quality control and compliance, moving people faster while cutting institutional risk. Scale without the matching headcount, and a tighter floor under every decision.

A consumer platform, designed and built from the ground up, that shows people exactly what they are overpaying and the evidence to fight it in about thirty seconds. Live in two major metro markets, turning a painful, opaque process into a few clear taps.

An AI-native open-government platform, built end to end, that drafts statute-cited records requests, tracks legal deadlines, and generates appeals for newsrooms, advocacy groups, and attorneys. A whole workflow that used to take a specialist, in one system.

Formed in late 2025. Building since early 2026.
Everything you just read shipped in the months since.

Who we are

The people who show up.

Each of us has led teams that built something real and pushed it through the wall. We do not bring theory; we bring executive experience - the scars and the wins, across every industry and domain we have actually operated in.

Jeremy Sweek

Strategy

Built and sold Darcy Partners, an energy-tech advisory firm with a network across the North American energy industry. SMU Cox School of Business. Vision, relationships, and the nose for where value is created - the engine behind the reach into energy and middle-market operators.

Jeff Jensen

Technology

Serial startup CTO. PhD from Texas A&M in electrical and computer engineering. CTO of Corva, real-time AI analytics for oil and gas, previously CTO of Arundo Analytics, with government and academic systems work including support for DARPA’s STEM initiative.

Joel Sartain

Operations

Career Marine Corps officer and intelligence professional. SMU Cox School of Business. Spent his final five years in executive-level roles leading 400 to 700 service members and civilians through complex operational environments; builder of AI-native platforms and autonomous engineering systems.

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Volo Kryzhanivskyi

Engineering

Infrastructure and platform-engineering leader. VP of Engineering at Corva, scaling a real-time platform across 25 regions at petabyte scale. Specializes in high-load system design, cloud migration, and DevOps. Master’s degrees from the University of South-Eastern Norway and Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Values

What we agree on.

Four operators, four different styles. These are the few things none of us argues with, and most of the reason the work turns out well.

01

We work across the table

None of us is here for the billable hour. We take your problem on because it is worth doing, and we work it the way we would work our own.

02

We choose our problems

We are drawn to work that is genuinely hard and genuinely matters. We would rather do a few of those well than keep the calendar full.

03

We build it and run it

We are not here to hand you a recommendation. We build the systems and stay until they hold up in production. We measure ourselves on whether it still works once we have moved on.

04

We stay students

We have done this long enough to respect how much we still do not know. We keep close to how the work is actually changing and borrow good thinking wherever we find it.

05

We keep your business yours

What you are working on stays yours. We do not trade on your name or talk about who we work with. Often your edge is simply that no one else knows what you are working on yet - and we keep it that way.

We build and run the AI inside real businesses.