About
[ai]tos was founded on a simple observation: the companies winning with AI aren’t the ones with the biggest budgets — they’re the ones that understand how to harness AI to make concrete improvements to their business. This is what we do.
Co-founder · Strategy & Delivery
Johnny has 20+ years of technical and business experience. He holds a PhD in computer science, was one of the early Google engineers, VP of engineering for several startup companies, inventor of over 30 US patents, and has a track record of forging high-impact strategic partnerships. His field of expertise is understanding business problems and translating them into technical solutions.
Co-founder · Engineering & Research
Chris owns the technical side: model selection, system architecture, evaluation, and the integration work that turns a promising prototype into infrastructure. He keeps [ai]tos ahead of a fast-moving field so clients don’t have to — and is allergic to shipping anything the team can’t measure.
We stay deliberately small. Every client works directly with the founders — no leverage pyramid, no juniors learning on your dime.
Demos are cheap. We measure ourselves on systems that run in your business six months later.
If AI is the wrong tool for your problem, we’ll say so in the first meeting — and save you the budget.
Every engagement transfers skills to your team. The goal is that you stop needing us.
Guardrails, evaluation, and governance aren’t compliance theater — they’re what makes AI trustworthy enough to scale.