Agencies & Professional Services Founders

Bailyn is on the cutting edge of AI Search, having evolved his specialty from SEO to GEO to Agentic Search Optimization over a 23 year career.

Barnard built Kalicube to help brands teach Google and AI systems who they are so those systems describe and recommend them correctly.

Bhowmick started Tredence in a Bangalore flat to close the gap between analytics insight and business results, and he is now pushing the firm toward pricing tied to outcomes as AI changes how services are sold.

Bosshart built large data systems for a decade, including Hadoop storage work at Cloudera, before taking over phData, the Minneapolis data engineering firm he first backed as an investor. He has since steered it toward putting AI into production on Snowflake.

Elder turned years of investment and defense modeling into Elder Research, a consultancy known for getting analytics into production, and his Target Shuffling method for checking whether a data mining result is real still shapes how its teams test models.

Habib built Writer so large companies can draft with AI without giving up brand voice or internal policies.

Hudgens grew a one-person consultancy into an agency of more than 120 people by betting that content people want to read and cite holds up when search engines change their rules.

King came to search from eight years as a touring rapper and now argues that SEO teams should study how search engines retrieve information before they guess at ranking tricks.

McGee founded Focus Digital in Greensboro, North Carolina, to sell expert search marketing to small businesses at prices they can afford. He still works on every client campaign himself.

Nelson built Tribe AI so companies can become AI-native by borrowing elite builders instead of standing up a full-time lab first.

O'Meara left enterprise software sales in Britain to start Logic20/20 in Seattle in 2005. He has grown it into a national consulting firm that helps utilities, financial services companies and other regulated industries plan and deliver data and AI work.

Prakash built Distyl AI to get Fortune 500 AI work into production instead of leaving it stuck in pilots.

Pushkarev runs Provectus, an AI systems integrator that builds and operates production AI and data systems for enterprises in financial services, healthcare and life sciences.

She is the Spark growth partner who led Anthropic's Series C, after growing up in Tehran and working on Snap's monetization.

Shoham brings decades of academic AI and prior exits to AI21's bet that enterprises need controllable, domain-ready language systems.

Viswanathan founded LatentView in 2006 around a simple obsession with what numbers can do for operators, then grew it from a Chennai analytics shop into a publicly traded AI and analytics consultancy.

Wang built Exa so AI apps get a search API built for embeddings and agents.

Zhou co-founded Lamini, an enterprise fine-tuning startup, and is now VP of AI at AMD.