Who we are
Builders and operators
Vai is a small firm on purpose. Experienced business and AI practitioners do the work, the same people you meet in the first conversation, and the stack does what a delivery bench used to do.
The founders
Full stack, by operators.
Architecture and buildMark Roboff
Mark leads the architecture and every technical build at Vai, using an AI assisted development process that lets a small team of experienced practitioners deliver and test working systems. Before Vai he spent two decades as a technology executive in applied AI, including commercial conversational systems, automotive safety analysis and aviation AI certification work, and several years teaching operators and executives how to use these tools.
Industry, network, standard of proofAndré Wright
André brings the operator's view of a quality critical supply chain to every Vai client, along with the commercial and financial judgment to scope work that pays back. He is Chief Financial Officer of Verify, which has provided supply chain risk management and supplier performance solutions in aerospace and defense since 1976 through a global network of more than eight thousand field resources.
Direction, offerings, operating modelNate Nelson
Nate leads executive alignment and the roadmap work, and the design of how a client's operating model should run. He has spent more than twenty years building and scaling consulting firms, including a founding role in the enterprise practice at West Monroe and office leadership at Point B and Adaptovate, where he built the US region across three offices.
The distinction
Consultants recommend. Operators own the outcome.
Between us we have run offices, carried a P and L, built firms from a standing start, shipped software into safety critical environments and sat in the finance seat of a company at the center of the aerospace supply chain. That history is why we scope the way we do, why we baseline before we build, and why we are comfortable being measured.
We bring specialists in by name when the work needs depth we do not have, and you meet them before they start. What we do not do is staff a project with people learning on your budget.
Where we came from
Built inside a company that has spent fifty years proving things.
Vai was founded with Verify, a firm that has worked at the center of the aerospace and defense supply chain since 1976. Verify is our founding partner, an early client and our route into their network. We are modernizing their operation the same way we would modernize yours, with the same baselines and the same measurement.
Start here
Let's find a useful place to start.
We can help your leadership team decide where AI belongs, build a workflow you have already identified, or do both. The first conversation helps us agree the next step.