PREECURSOR
Our people

Engineers and operators from the rooms where the standard gets set

Our partners have led research at frontier labs, scaled platforms at the companies you use every day, and run the kind of P&L our clients answer to. We have been on your side of the table.

Partners

The people who frame the engagement and stay through to the production system. Every partner carries both the strategy and the code.

Dr. Maya EllisonFounding Partner & CEOLed applied research teams at a frontier lab before founding Preecursor. Maya frames the firm's hardest engagements and keeps the work honest about what AI can and can't do.
Daniel OkonkwoFounding Partner & Head of EngineeringBuilt and scaled ML platforms serving hundreds of millions of users. Daniel owns the bar for what ships — if it can't survive production and review, it doesn't go out the door.
Priya RamanPartner, Financial ServicesA former model-risk lead turned builder. Priya runs our regulated-industry engagements, where the difference between a pilot and production is a validation team's signature.
Advisors

Operators and researchers who lend judgment at the edges of what we do — sector depth, governance, and frontier method.

Marcus VogelSenior Advisor, StrategyTwo decades advising boards on technology strategy before AI was the question on every agenda. Marcus pressure-tests where a client should build, buy, or wait.
Dr. Hana SatoAdvisor, Responsible AIA policy researcher who has shaped governance frameworks adopted across the sector. Hana keeps our safety and evaluation practice ahead of the regulation, not behind it.
Operators

Engineers and product leaders who turn the diagnosis into a system in production, embedded inside your teams.

Liam BrennanPrincipal Operator, Applied BuildsShips agentic systems that hold up under real load. Liam embeds inside client teams and leaves them running infrastructure they understand and can extend.
Sofia MarchettiOperator, Product & EnablementTurns a working system into an adopted one. Sofia runs the rollout, the training, and the handoff that decide whether a deployment sticks after we leave.
Researchers

Our Labs bench — the people who sharpen evals, methods, and reference architectures before they reach a client.

Dr. Arjun NairResearch Lead, Preecursor LabsLeads our evaluation and reliability research. Arjun builds the eval harnesses and reference methods that move from Labs into every engagement we run.
How we staff an engagement

Senior practitioners, on the work from day one

Every engagement is led by a senior practitioner who has built and shipped real systems — no junior bench, no hand-off to a team you never met. You work directly with the people doing the work, and we hold ourselves to the bar we’d expect on the other side of the table.

Want to build with people like this?

We hire operators and engineers who would rather ship than advise. If that sounds like you, we should talk.

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