For Founders
The decisions you make in the next 90 days will shape what your company becomes. Not the next 90 months. The next 90 days. AndMaverick works alongside founders who understand that and want someone in the room who has been here before.
The Reality
Most AI advice for founders is written by people who have never built anything at scale.
They have frameworks. They have slides. They have opinions formed from the outside looking in. And they will charge you for the privilege of telling you things that sound right but fall apart the moment you try to implement them with a real team on a real deadline with real constraints.
AndMaverick was built on a different foundation. The founder of this firm was inside OpenAI when GPT-2 and GPT-3 were being built. Led AI at Spotify for 675 million users. Advised Coinbase through the FTX collapse. Was at Stripe in the early days. That is not a credential list. That is a track record of being present when technology met consequence and having to make the right call anyway.
When you work with AndMaverick, you are not getting advice about what other companies did. You are getting pattern recognition from someone who was in the room when the patterns were being set.
What We Do
Architecture & Product
For founders making technical decisions that will define the company's infrastructure for the next three to five years. We help you build the right thing, not just build the thing right.
Strategy & Positioning
For founders at inflection points — new markets, new capital, new competition. The hardest part of building is knowing what not to do. We help you make that call with conviction.
Founder Advisory
For founders navigating the organizational and human challenges that emerge when AI changes what the company is becoming. Sometimes the hardest problem is not technical. It is leadership.
Why It Matters
Every advisor can tell you what Amazon or Google did. Very few can tell you what it actually felt like to make AI decisions at that scale — the tradeoffs, the failures, the things that looked obvious in hindsight and were completely unclear at the time.
That firsthand experience is the only thing that makes advisory worth paying for. It is what separates pattern recognition from educated guessing.
AndMaverick brings that experience to founders who are building now, in real time, with the same pressures and constraints that shaped every consequential AI product of the last decade.
OpenAI
Early team during GPT-2 and GPT-3 era. Inside the origin of modern AI before it was obvious what it would become.
Spotify
Head of AI for Product Experience. 675 million users. What AI looks like when it has to work for everyone, every time.
Coinbase
Advisor during the FTX collapse. What happens when a technology loses its moral architecture and takes an industry down with it.
Stripe
Early days. Building the infrastructure layer the internet's financial system now runs on.
A consulting firm that sends you a 90-page deck and disappears
A strategic partner who is in the decisions with you, not after them
Generic AI advice written for every company and relevant to none
Specific, grounded advisory built around your company, your market, and your next 90 days
Someone who learned AI strategy from reading about other companies
Someone who was inside the companies that everyone else is reading about
Founder Ecosystem
AndMaverick participates in founder communities, investor networks, panels, and partnerships designed to give founders access to expertise and one another. The goal is not just better advisory for individual companies but a more connected, better-informed founder ecosystem overall.
If you are building a community, accelerator, or program that serves founders navigating AI and you think there is a fit, the conversation is always open.
Founders · Startups · Growth Stage · Pre-IPO