You get both of us — not a junior offshore bench.
15 years at the edge of where automation and money meet. First hire at Tangem — a hardware crypto wallet company — where he built GTM from zero and drove the company to $100M+ ARR and a $750M–$1B valuation. CRO at FYEO cybersecurity: $2M+ ARR in a bear market. CBDC advisor to Cambodia's retail CBDC rollout (Soramitsu). Testimony before the US Congress Blockchain Caucus on digital assets.
Outside fintech: raised and exited a $3M+ gym chain (Solace, top-10 US). Advises AvrioTech and Xaman Labs (in buyout talks). On every engagement the work is the same: find the automation lever that moves the number, and pull it.
Pentagon GS-15 Lead Data Scientist with active security clearance. MIT-certified AI & Big Data subject matter expert. Former enterprise AI lead at Voya Financial. Former principal data scientist at Northwestern. He builds the production AI systems that actually run at scale — not proofs of concept, not demos. Systems that move $500M+ in measurable value.
Specializations: LLM systems, RAG architecture, multi-agent orchestration, custom model training, enterprise data pipelines. He has built AI that runs on classified infrastructure. Your business's data pipeline is well within scope.
The model was never the bottleneck. It's your data, your systems, your team's reality. That's where we work.
Neil built AI for the Pentagon. James built GTM for companies that lived and died on the number. We don't build proof-of-concepts. We build things that run Monday morning.
No project manager between you and the architect. No junior dev deploying what a senior sold. Every line of the Fianna deployment is built by the two people in these bios.
Our goal is for you not to need us. We deploy, train, document, and transfer. You own the weights, the configs, the infra. We're on retainer if you want us — not because you have to.
Start with the deployment audit — one week, $2,500, you keep the architectural map either way.
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