BUY LOW. SELL HIGH. ELIMINATE DOWNSIDE

Volatility is a tax.Exercise your Options to defeat it.

We provide the Commercial Intelligence required to navigate the complexities of global trade and production. We map the economic connections between every physical product on Earth to give operators a singular advantage: the ability to buy low, sell high, and eliminate downside.

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STATUS: LIVELATENCY: 24ms

Total Value at Risk

$4.2M
Unhedged Exposure

Business Normal (Monitoring)

LANE: ATL-CHI
$1.24/mi
LANE: DAL-LAX
$2.10/mi
FORMULA: SKU-8421
$0.12/unit
BATCH: PROD-LINE-3
$2.4k/run

Active Options

4 READY
Switch Formulation
Expires: 24h
+$142k
Delay Shipment
Expires: 48h
+$85k
Adjust Production
Expires: 72h
+$68k
Forward Buy (Pkg)
Signal Weakening
+$12k

System Activity

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PRICING_ENGINE_02RUNNING...
RISK_MONITOR_03SCANNING...
01.

The Rearview Mirror Fallacy

A ledger is not a windshield. Decades of ERP upgrades created an intelligence illusion. Accurate history. Fragile future.

Historical Autopsy

Systems of Record

Your ERP knows exactly how much you lost. It records the financial damage after the margin is already gone. In volatile markets, hindsight is not control.

The AI Mirage

Intelligence Illusion

Models that predict what might happen next still ignore the physics of your operations. Capacity, contracts, and inventory are not solved by brute-force compute.

The Insurance Trap

Siloed Decisions

Disconnected silos force you to absorb 100% of market volatility for your customers while receiving zero risk premium. We orchestrate profit across the gaps.

02.

Deterministic Profits

Evidence from operators in opaque physical markets where volatility compounds with every ton, mile, and batch.

PRODUCE // MANUFACTURING
€80M
By dynamically selecting optimal formulations across global production assets.
PRICE // LOGISTICS NETWORK
$48M
By transitioning to real-time, market-adaptive quoting across complex drayage networks.
PROTECT // RISK MANAGEMENT
$21M
By harvesting volatility alpha and releasing balance sheet capital through unified risk orchestration.
03.

The Alpha Factory™

Run your business like a hedge fund. We bring the rational precision of liquid markets to the opaque world of physical goods.

[ MARKET_SIGNALS ][ OPERATIONAL_DATA ][ COMMERCIAL_ONTOLOGY ][ SENTINEL ][ PROCURE ][ PRODUCE ][ PRICE ][ PROTECT ][ DETERMINISTIC_PROFIT ]

1. Commercial Sensors

SIGNAL DETECTION

Proprietary sensors across your systems of record and the broader market. We detect live signals (price shifts, inventory gaps, and margin leaks) before they hit your balance sheet.

2. Translation + Orchestration

THE SYSTEM OF REALITY

Where chaos becomes order. We map your operations to a commercial ontology: the financial truth where we can orchestrate options in your business to find the most profitable path.

3. Trade Signals

DECISION ADVANTAGE

Clear trade signals across procurement, production, pricing, and risk. Moves from reactive guessing to executing instructions that lock in deterministic profit.

04.

The Value Path

Each pillar compounds. Savings in sourcing flow to production. Pricing and logistics align to the same curve. All on one platform.

PROCURE

Rational Sourcing

Evaluate and exercise the best options in sourcing and capital allocation. Transition from static procurement to dynamic advantage.

PRODUCE

Real Options on the Floor

Identify the lowest-cost production or utilization pivot. Maximize the daily spread without disrupting quality or customer commitments.

PRICE

Dynamic Quoting

Capture maximum market value. Move beyond static price sheets to dynamic quoting anchored to live replacement costs and derived demand.

PROTECT

Physical-Market Risk

Hedge risk and neutralize volatility. Translate sophisticated risk-management principles into actionable operational strategies for physical markets.

05.

Phased Deployment

A phased approach to institutionalizing commercial intelligence.

01
14 days

Proof of Volatility (POV)

Give us a snapshot of your data. We map it to our global view of markets and trade, then quantify your volatility tax. We prove the value path before you commit to a full implementation.

02
12 weeks

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Deploy application for specific teams. Run parallel to existing systems to demonstrate ROI on live decisions.

03
Ongoing

Production

Full-scale deployment into core workflows. Sentinel as the system of reality alongside your system of record.

06.

Insights

Research on how decision intelligence is transforming industrial markets.

07.

Trusted Partners

Industry leaders we are proud to partner with.

Evans Network of CompaniesSchreiber
08.

Team

Veterans of Wall Street and enterprise tech building high-performance systems.

Stephen Pounds

Stephen Pounds

CEO

20+ years leading investing & AI at ING, ICE/NYSE, McKesson.

Jason Cardinal

Jason Cardinal

Head of Engineering

Decade of experience designing distributed systems.

Zach Wood

Zach Wood

Head of Client Services

15+ years product strategy and professional services, ICE/NYSE.

Ben Faust

Ben Faust

Head of Product

25+ years retail & tech product leadership.

Blake Lassiter

Blake Lassiter

Data Architect

15+ years building enterprise data platforms and AI systems across healthcare and energy.

Cole Potrocky

Cole Potrocky

Technical Advisor

Founding engineer on Facebook Workplace; CTO and engineering leader at startups.

Max Duckworth

Max Duckworth

Strategic Advisor

30+ years experience in energy and deep tech; former Co-Head of Commodities at Constellation Energy.

09.

Contact

Get in touch to learn how we can help transform your operations.