We've Been Where You Are
IS4.ai started with a simple observation: most AI consultants have never actually shipped AI at scale. They've read the papers, taken the courses, maybe built some demos. But have they deployed systems that handle millions of users? Have they been on-call when those systems break at 2 AM? Have they explained to a board why their AI investment didn't deliver?
We have.
Meet the Humans Behind The AI
We're not your typical AI consultancy founders. No philosophy degrees from Oxford, no theoretical papers on consciousness. Just three guys who've built real systems at scale and decided the world needed less AI hype and more AI that actually works.
Juan | CEO
Co‑founder & Chief Executive Officer
The guy who protected your credit card at Visa
Juan spent years at Visa making sure fraudsters couldn't buy yachts with your credit card number. He built ML models that protected millions of transactions daily and somehow made 30,000 global clients happy (no small feat). Before we could stop him, he'd already built ChatGPT-powered tools for executives who previously thought AI was that movie with Will Smith. When he's not architecting data pipelines, he's bringing AI to Latin American markets because, as he puts it, "Google Translate isn't a business strategy."
Mike | CTO
Chief Commercial Officer
The dude without a degree who teaches ML PhDs how to do their jobs
Mike dropped out of Carnegie Mellon and somehow ended up teaching machine learning PhDs how to ship actual products. As the first engineer at NoWait, he built the app that millions used to skip restaurant lines (acquired by Yelp for $40M). At Uber's autonomous vehicle group, he led architecture for 500+ engineers working on self-driving cars – turns out you don't need a diploma to teach robots how to navigate Pittsburgh's potholes. He's built five companies, and now makes sure our AI solutions work in the real world, not just in research papers. His philosophy: "Building for humans is harder than impressing machines."
Dan | COO
Chief Operating Officer
The hedge fund guy with a mission
Dan managed $750M at a New York hedge fund, which sounds impressive until you realize he left it all to fix healthcare AI. Why? Years of navigating emergency rooms with his disabled son showed him exactly where healthcare tech fails real families. Now he runs our operations with the same intensity he once applied to structured finance, except instead of optimizing derivatives, he's making sure AI actually helps the people who need it. He speaks three languages fluently, which is two more than our AI models on a good day.
Together, we've learned that most AI projects fail not because the technology isn't ready, but because nobody bothered to ask employees what would actually help them do their jobs. So that's what we do. Revolutionary? No. Effective? Ask our clients.