About

We built this because AI adoption is already moving outside the old boundaries.

A small team. Senior. Discreet by design. We spent careers inside the kinds of organizations we serve, watched AI tools and workflows grow without ownership, support, or change control, and decided to build the operating layer we always wished existed. The CEO is named; advisor and delivery rosters stay private unless there is a reason to disclose them.

Our thesis

The next wave of software will not arrive through normal IT intake.

It is already arriving through tools, vendors, agents, scripts, and teams trying to move faster. We believe every organization deserves a way to adopt AI safely, not only enterprises with platform teams and mature DevOps programs.

OpenData exists for those teams: set the course in Forge, build safely in Factory, and keep the business in control with Pulse.

Why we keep a low profile

Our customers don't buy us for our brand. They buy us for what we ship.

The leaders we work with run regulated industries, sensitive operations, and confidential transformations. They prefer a partner who treats their roster as a competitive advantage, not a marketing asset. So we don't list customer logos until they ask us to. We don't publish team headshots. We don't post screenshots from inside deployments. The work speaks; we let it.

If you want to know exactly who you'll be working with, you'll get that on the first call, with a non-disclosure agreement in place if it matters to you.

The team

What the team brings, by role.

Leadership

Todd Rossin

Chief Executive Officer. Leads company strategy, customer relationships, and the operating discipline behind Forge, Factory, and Pulse.

Operations Practice

Senior operators

Two former heads of operations from Fortune-500 services firms. Combined ~25 years running PMOs, capacity planning, and delivery handoffs.

AI Engineering

Applied AI engineers

Engineers from frontier-model labs and large AI infrastructure teams. The same people who've shipped retrieval, evaluation harnesses, and safety pipelines at scale.

Platform Engineering

Senior platform builders

Backend and frontend leads with experience operating multi-tenant SaaS at the 100-million-user scale.

Design & UX

Product designers

Practitioners from teams that have shipped category-defining B2B products.

Security & Trust

Security & compliance leads

Former heads of security at fintech and identity companies. They own threat modeling, audit posture, the SOC 2 roadmap.

Customer-facing

Deployment leads

Former management consultants and big-four ex-partners. They sit on the team for Guided and Embedded deployments.

Advisors

Senior advisors who shape the work.

A short group of senior advisors help with strategy, product, and customer access. They are listed by role unless they ask to be named publicly.

Advisor

AI, identity & platform advisor

A senior operator with deep experience across identity platforms, API architecture, enterprise SaaS, and applied AI. Helps us think about platform architecture, trust boundaries, and how AI and operations actually fit together inside real organizations.

AI & identity Platform architecture Enterprise SaaS
Advisor

Senior services-industry advisor

A former managing director at a top-tier global consulting firm with deep experience in services operations, capacity economics, and the financial mechanics of professional-services delivery. Listed by role, not name, at their request.

Services economics Pricing & deal structure
Advisor

AI safety & evaluation advisor

A researcher with frontier-model evaluation experience. Helps us design verification stages, refusal posture, and the accountability record that makes Forge defensible to a CFO and to a regulator.

AI evaluation Safety posture
Advisor

Enterprise security advisor

A current head of security at a public fintech. Reviews threat model, access architecture, and the path to SOC 2 Type II.

Threat modeling Compliance posture
On hiring

We're hiring quietly.

If you've spent a career inside operations, running a PMO, building a forecasting model, designing a delivery process, leading an AI infrastructure team, and you're done watching companies struggle to do this with spreadsheets and goodwill, we'd like to talk. We post specific roles when we have them; otherwise, intros come through the deployment-call channel.

No careers page. No requisitions. Just conversations.

Onboarding 20 design partners through Q2.

Your teams are trying tools, your vendors are adding AI, and new workflows are already forming. Tell us where that motion is happening and we'll map a 90-day path, or tell you honestly that we're not the right fit.

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