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The work

What we have already shipped.

Some of our more interesting projects, de-identified. Expand any 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 cut source-package review time, so analysts spend their hours on judgment.

A firm that has handled nearly half a billion dollars in client funds. We built the review system that scales their quality control and compliance without matching headcount.

A consumer platform, designed and built from the ground up, that shows people what they are overpaying and the evidence to fight it, in about thirty seconds. Live in two major metro markets.

It drafts statute-cited records requests and tracks legal deadlines through appeal, for newsrooms and attorneys.

What we do

Two kinds of leverage.

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 and backlogs a business has quietly learned to live with, and we clear them. What is left runs faster and costs less.

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.

How we work

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

Everyone feels a mandate to integrate AI. The difficulty is that most organizations are not manned or equipped to take it on, particularly mid-market companies. We work alongside you to find the real constraints, make room for AI-centric change, and build systems that outlast us.

1

Scope

We sit with your executives and experts to get clear on your goals and the constraints, and we invest early on in understanding how your team creates value.

2

Prioritize

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

3

Build

We efficiently build the technology systems your 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. We design and deploy systems that learn from each other and compound over time.

Who we are

We have all run organizations where the technology was the easy part.

Each of us has led teams that shipped real systems and ran real businesses.

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.

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 intelligence officer. Spent his final 5 years in executive roles leading large teams through complex environments. SMU Cox School of Business. Builder of agentic AI platforms and autonomous systems; early AI practitioner and evaluator in the defense sector since the last decade.

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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 and cloud infrastructure.

Values

What we will not compromise on.

01

We earn simplicity

Simple isn't easy. You shouldn't have to navigate complexity just because we can - we do the hard thinking so you can decide with confidence.

02

We leave people stronger than we found them

Every engagement leaves behind better leaders, better systems, better operators, and a better business. We don't build dependence - we earn the next call.

03

We tell the truth

We'll tell you to spend less, to wait, or to use another partner when that's the right answer. And what you share with us stays with us - your strategy, your data, and your edge are yours, not our marketing material. Short-term revenue is never worth long-term trust.

04

We care about what works

We're not loyal to a methodology, a tool, or a trend - we're loyal to solving the problem, and we change our minds when the facts change.

05

We stay curious

We've done this long enough to respect how much we still don't know. We'll go deep on a tax code one month and robotics the next. We stay sharp on what's emerging so you don't have to, and we borrow good thinking wherever we find it.

06

We build for the long term

We build systems you can own and run without us - no black boxes, nothing that only works while we're in the room. When we're gone your team keeps it running.

We build human-AI systems that make elite people and organizations better.