Define the outcome
Start with the business decision, operating bottleneck, and observable result — not a predetermined technology stack.
Controlthrive Studios · founder-led consultancy
Advice that ships.
We help CEOs and founders decide where AI earns its place, then embed a forward-deployed engineer to build it — inside your team, in your stack, until there is a production outcome people run.
Experience across
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Work where context and judgment matter.
The strongest engagements have a clear operator, consequential decisions, fragmented evidence, and a path from prototype to day-to-day use.
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AI strategy and advisory
Work with the CEO and leadership team to find where AI earns its place in the business — and where it does not — before anything gets built.
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Decision systems
Turn a complex business decision into software your team can inspect, trust, and use under pressure.
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Data and operating workflows
Connect fragmented records, assisted judgment, reliable controls, and human review in one working system.
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Forward-deployed engineering
A senior engineer embeds with your operators, ships into your stack, and stays with the workflow after launch to operate and improve it.
Outcome first. Working software quickly.
Ship the first useful system
Build the smallest production path that connects the data, judgment, controls, and interface the team actually needs.
Operate and improve
Stay close after launch when the outcome requires an operated workflow, adoption support, or repeated improvement.
How a private capital advisory firm operationalized investor targeting
A founder-led build that helped a private capital advisory team move from fragmented CRM context and tacit deal knowledge to a production AI workflow for investor search, review, and handoff.
Pricing Engine for a SaaS Commerce Product
An end-to-end pricing product that let the client move from a founder vision to an operational system with measurable commercial upside.
Matching Engine for a Manufacturing Data Cleanup Program
A production data workflow that restored a cleaner single source of truth and removed meaningful manual effort from the remediation process.
“Servando is unusually strong at operating in ambiguity. He can take raw, unfiltered business context, understand the underlying need, and move into execution fast without needing a lot of process, templates, or back-and-forth clarification. What makes him especially valuable is that he combines high agency, real business understanding, and strong AI engineering capability. He quickly grasped the complexity of MVV's business and delivered not only software that addressed it, but also a true 1:1 partnership and technical guidance across every stage of development.”
Misha Vasilchikov Managing Partner · MVV Capital Partners
Bring the outcome, not a specification.
Share the decision, bottleneck, and operating reality behind the system you need. We can determine whether there is a focused path to production.