Founder & Chief Architect, Atreides Systems.
Author, The Restoration of American Vitality.
America does not have a talent or capital shortage. It has a direction shortage. The country that built 48,000 aircraft in 1942 now takes seven years to approve a highway interchange, and the venture capital that should be rebuilding the physical economy is instead funding the seventeenth AI wrapper for email productivity. The capability is buried under bureaucratic process, misallocated by incentive, and invisible to the systems that would otherwise put it to work.
The mid-market is the clearest case. Every mid-market business is part of the operational backbone of this country, and every one of them is running on software that treats it as if it were an afterthought. Tools that don't talk to each other, spreadsheets held together by whoever has time, the businesses that actually produce value in America are invisible to the owners running them, to the capital pricing them, and to the AI systems about to rewrite what is possible in the economy.
Value in the next decade accrues to two layers: chips and ontology. Atreides is building the ontology layer for the real economy. We are the substrate that makes the American mid-market operationally world-class. The half of the economy that has been invisible to every platform built in the last twenty years is about to become the most valuable surface in software. We are building the infrastructure underneath it.
The full argument is in The Restoration of American Vitality
- Built internal enterprise applications, algorithms, and workflows for Gulfstream Aerospace's Completions Stress Engineering team while still in high school. Replaced manual Excel macros with production systems used across dozens of departments
- Program Valedictorian and Honor Graduate in Aircraft Structural Technology Certification at Savannah Technical College. Served as TA/RA under Roger Simmons
- Effingham College & Career Academy (STEM) — Engineering Pathway
- Certified in Palantir Foundry & AIP Builder Foundations
Most of my work is not public as it is proprietary intellectual property of Atreides Systems LLC.
I do not present a public portfolio as a proxy for capability. I do not care for faux positioning. The evidence is in the thinking, the scope of what I have taken on, and what it produces in the market.
Theology and living faithfully. Lifting heavy things. Reading classics, math, economics, politics, history, philosophy. Long walks without headphones. Building systems that make the United States and her allies stronger.