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StrategyEngineeringThroughput
Senior technical partners. From strategy to shipped software, AI, and infrastructure.
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Trusted to execute for
$1B+processed by systems we shipped
Start with what you have. We’ll help define the rest and get it done.
AI, cloud infrastructure, data, software, design, automation, product, or the strategy connecting it all. Whatever it is, we execute.
Senior technical operators stay close to the question, the architecture, and the release. Bring a defined build or a problem that still needs shaping.
Technical diligence, product definition, architecture, roadmaps, and operating plans grounded in what can actually ship.
Agents, forecasting, recommendation, optimization, and applied AI built around a measurable business result.
Customer products, internal tools, websites, APIs, and full-stack platforms made for real operations.
Architecture, infrastructure, delivery pipelines, observability, modernization, and the hard work between environments.
Data platforms, analytics, integrations, and workflows that replace drag with dependable throughput.
Access boundaries, isolated agents, short-lived credentials, review gates, documentation, and clean handoff.
Brand identity, product and interface design, and websites, designed by the same people who build them, so what ships looks the way it was drawn.
The founders
Execution Associates brings together two complementary builders. Stephan goes deepest on software and systems. Saul goes deepest on ML and data. Both can carry a hard technical problem from strategy through production.
Cofounder / Software + systems
Software architect and AI strategist with more than a decade across software, data engineering, cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, and AI-native products. Stephan turns complex technical terrain into systems teams can actually operate.
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Cofounder / ML + outcomes
Machine learning engineer and technical operator with nine-plus years shipping forecasting, optimization, analytics, automation, and AI systems. Saul's deployed models have supported more than $1B in commercial activity.
LinkedInSelected proof
Representative work across machine learning, software products, operational systems, and secure AI.
01 Applied ML / Optimization
$300M
A production recommendation and bidding-optimization engine for a national auction marketplace, designed around real-time financial decisions and more than $300M in annual business.
02 Forecasting / Decision systems
3 years
A Bayesian supply-and-demand forecasting system for a leading avocado supplier, delivering commercially useful predictions through volatile markets for three consecutive years.
03 Software / Growth systems
1 system
A production platform combining content planning, multi-channel publishing, saved audiences, reach estimates, post promotion, and campaign controls in one operating product.
04 Secure AI / Engineering
0 trust
AI coding agents connected to engineering workflows through isolated workspaces, controlled repositories, short-lived credentials, and human review gates.
You bring the strategy.
We bring the engineers.
You can see the move and own the client relationship. We provide the senior technical bench to build it. Bring us into the room as your client-facing technical team, or keep us quietly behind your brand.
Our job is to execute the strategy, protect the relationship, and keep your client happy.
Your brand, your relationship, your room. We operate as the senior delivery bench your client never needs to know was external.
We join the calls, carry the technical work, and make the plan real while you continue leading the strategy and relationship.
Hand us the outcome. We can shape the strategy, run delivery, face the client, and stay accountable through launch and beyond.
An alternative to one more hire
A single senior technical hire can cost a couple hundred thousand dollars a year once salary, recruiting, benefits, and overhead land. For less than half of that, you can put an entire bench of senior technical experience behind the work.
One senior hire
~$200K+
Execution Associates retainer
<$100K/ year
More range. Less fixed cost. No single-hire bottleneck.
Retain the teamPut us on it
You do not need a polished brief. Tell us what needs to move, what keeps getting stuck, or which client promise needs a serious delivery team behind it.
