We build what we say. Hekaton is two people who have shipped this work, not packaged it. Every engagement gets the founders, because there is no one else to send.
At Hekaton, we kept watching the same pattern: a compelling promise, a customer who heard part of it, a product that delivered a different part, and no feedback loop in between. The technology almost never was the problem. Nobody was standing between the capability and the person, doing the homework to say plainly what was actually worth building.
The specific conversations that started us came in parallel. At one large organization, an internal team had a mandate to build predictive and adaptive systems — exactly the kind of work AI makes genuinely possible. They had the technical vision and the organizational backing. What they couldn't get was traction with the process owners in the divisions they were trying to serve. The capability sat at the center and couldn't move outward.
At another, senior leadership was asking whether a deeper, wider library of tools and criteria was the right answer to their operational complexity. They were close to concluding it wasn't — but had no clear alternative direction.
Both problems had the same shape: the vision existed, the capability existed, and no obvious path ran between them. That gap — between what technology leaders can see and what their organizations can execute — is the specific problem Hekaton was built to close.
Co-founder
Twenty years building things that were supposed to work, and watching whether they actually did. A decade of that was IoT: connected devices, analytics platforms, and data pipelines for Fortune 500 clients across FinTech, Green Energy, and industrial operations. At every scale, consumer product to enterprise system, the work was the same: take operational noise and turn it into a decision someone could act on.
Co-founder
CTO of Build Labs. Joe was running self-hosted models in production before that was a fashionable thing to claim: three-plus years learning what the papers don't teach you, where orchestration breaks at scale, what it takes to get a system that improves on its own. He brings the technical depth that turns a correct strategy into a system that actually ships and keeps running.
The name
"Hekaton" is short for the Hecatoncheires, the hundred-handed giants Zeus freed to break the Titans. Many arms, one mind, overwhelming parallel execution.
A direct conversation, no deck, no discovery theater. You leave knowing what's worth building and what it takes.