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OpenAI · Spotify · Coinbase · Stripe · Yale MBA
Some work is done in rooms most people never see.
Led personally by Andrew Quillen
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Every transformative technology follows the same arc. It begins as a tool, becomes infrastructure, and ends as power. I have worked inside that arc at OpenAI, Spotify, Coinbase, and Stripe. AndMaverick now takes it into sovereign governments, global institutions, and the companies defining frontier AI. We build what puts organizations on the right side of it.
The Looming Horizon
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This is not a development agency model. This is executive product leadership from concept to commercial scale.
Begin a Product ConversationThe Vantage Point
Most firms study what happened inside those rooms. AndMaverick was built by someone who was in them. That difference is the product.
At OpenAI, I was present at the origin of modern artificial intelligence. At Spotify, I led AI for a platform serving 675 million people. At Coinbase, I was advising during the FTX collapse, the defining moment of what happens when a transformative technology loses its moral architecture. At Stripe, I helped build the infrastructure layer the digital economy now runs on.
That sequence is unreplicable. And it produces a kind of clarity about what AI actually does to power, institutions, and civilization that no amount of research can replicate.
This is what sovereign wealth funds, frontier AI companies, enterprise institutions, and governments engage AndMaverick to build.
AndMaverick advises organizations across North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and the Gulf.
Andrew Quillen founded AndMaverick and leads every mandate himself. There is no team to hand you to and no one between you and the person who does the work.
His path did not stop at strategy. He writes fiction, makes a podcast, and builds the frameworks the work runs on.
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Saudi Arabia has declared 2026 the Year of Artificial Intelligence. The UAE AI Strategy 2031 is funded and accelerating. Sovereign wealth funds are deploying billions into AI infrastructure across the region. This is not a future market. It is an active one, and it belongs to the organizations that build their AI architecture now, before the window closes.
AndMaverick has been operating inside the Gulf AI ecosystem, working with the companies building the sovereign enterprise AI infrastructure that governments and financial institutions across the region depend on. This is not advisory from the outside. This is architecture built from within the institutions that are defining what Gulf AI becomes.
The work is here. The relationships are here. The understanding of what sovereign AI actually requires in high assurance financial and government environments is here.
For organizations operating in or entering the Gulf market, the conversation starts now.
Begin the ConversationModel · Action · Orchestration
The MAO Framework is the architecture AndMaverick deploys. It moves organizations from tool accumulation to integrated intelligence, three interdependent layers that turn disconnected AI spend into a unified operating system that compounds.
The MAO Framework governs the full AI product lifecycle, from model selection to the orchestration layer that makes AI compound into commercial value.
Take the free MAO Index The frameworkEnterprise Intelligence Systems
Orchestration Playbooks are structured, executable frameworks that integrate multiple AI tools into a unified intelligence system for enterprise functions. Where most firms deliver strategy decks, AndMaverick delivers operating systems: built, tested, and deployed.
AI is not a feature. It is an operating model.
Speaking
A weekly podcast at the intersection of AI, power, and civilization, hosted by someone who was inside the rooms where both were built.
View on YouTube Book Me for Your PodcastThe Looming Horizon is a universe built around a single question: what happens to civilization when the most powerful technology in human history concentrates in the wrong hands, or in hands that simply weren't ready?
Andrew Quillen explores that question in two forms: a dystopian novel that imagines the worst-case answer, and a podcast that tracks the real-time version of the same story.
This is the work of someone who was inside the rooms. Who watched the decisions get made. And who has something to say about what comes next.
Follow on YouTube Read the blogA dystopian novel in the tradition of 1984, The Hunger Games, and The Last of Us. What happens to humanity when AI becomes infrastructure, and infrastructure becomes control?
The convergence of AI and civilization, examined by someone who was inside the rooms where both were built. New episodes on YouTube.
"Andrew doesn't just talk AI. He operationalizes it. His ability to distill complexity into strategy shifted how we approach innovation across the org."
Chief Strategy Officer, Global Enterprise Client
"AndMaverick designed and deployed agentic infrastructure directly with our engineering team across six quarters, moving us from projections to live sourced data as we expanded into new markets. The work was built, not presented."
FinTech Executive
"Within twenty minutes he had seen our problem, taken apart how we had built things, and shown our entire team exactly where we had gone wrong. He did not charge us. And at the end of that call he told us honestly that the path forward was ours to take, that he had given us what we needed. Someone who walks away when they could easily stay is someone you never want to lose. Engage AndMaverick. The ones who do not will regret it."
Chief Executive, AI Infrastructure Company, Bangkok, Thailand. Translated from Thai
"Andrew possesses a rare ability to take complex technical vision and turn it into AI products that scale and generate real commercial value. He brings together deep engineering understanding and strategic product thinking, leading work from concept through execution with a level of executive maturity that is genuinely uncommon."
Chief Product and Technology Officer, Financial Services and FinTech, Fortune 500. Translated from Arabic
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Common Questions
Andrew Quillen is a principal AI strategist, author, and advisor who served as Head of AI for Product Experience at Spotify, held roles at OpenAI, Coinbase, and Stripe, and holds an MBA from Yale School of Management. He is the founder of AndMaverick and creator of The Looming Horizon. AndMaverick builds AI operating systems for enterprise and government clients, covering architecture, orchestration infrastructure, and deployed intelligence systems.
The MAO Framework is a proprietary AI systems architecture developed by Andrew Quillen consisting of three layers: the Model Layer (strategic AI model selection), the Action Layer (workflow and output design), and the Orchestration Layer (systems integration for compound leverage). It moves organizations from disconnected tool usage to integrated AI operating systems.
An AI Orchestration Playbook is a structured, executable framework developed by AndMaverick that integrates multiple AI tools into a unified enterprise intelligence system, producing measurable, compounding outcomes across marketing, content, and operations.
The Looming Horizon is both a forthcoming dystopian novel and a podcast by Andrew Quillen. The novel explores what happens when artificial intelligence concentrates power without moral architecture, described as Hunger Games meets The Last of Us meets 1984. The podcast examines the convergence of AI and civilization in real time.
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