Three craftsmen · Nearly half a century each
ƐMinds is Andy Seidl, Alan Kucheck, and Bill French. Machines will sprint through a problem with perfect confidence and no stake in what breaks. That indifference is useful for speed. It is fatal for judgment. We keep the speed. We refuse the indifference. You hire three people who own the outcome — LEAP training that leaves your team literate in their own rules, or advanced AI systems that have to be right under load.
When the work demands it: LEAP, ontologies, and graphs. Tools — not the brand.
01 — The three
Complementary crafts, one stake: Andy’s ontology and systems architecture, Alan’s high-stakes engineering on platforms that cannot guess wrong, Bill’s agentic product architecture and how it lands in real organizations. Decades each shipping software that had to survive customers — different angles on why the work has to be right.
Serial software entrepreneur · Ann Arbor
Information architecture, search, and ontology systems — including the AIREX market stack. A tool-maker who builds the factories that build the products. Thirty-plus years designing and shipping commercial software; open-source systems craft (Dell OSS Mensa).
VP of Engineering · AI legacy-code archaeology
Leads engineering at Phase Change Software. Former air traffic controller — precision and conflict reconciliation under load. Decades bringing platforms like AIREX and AI-assisted legacy (COBOL/mainframe) work into production without theater.
Agentic architectures · St. George
Designs and deploys agentic AI architectures for enterprise outcomes — product, systems, and the written craft that makes judgment transferable. Phase Change Software; long trail of shipping integrations, SaaS, and AI systems people can actually operate.
A three-person engineering practice for high-stakes AI outcomes. Not a platform vendor. Not agent theater.
02 — The problem
Enterprises route deterministic work through unconstrained LLM loops. Latency, unit economics, and compliance all break. When the work needs systems, we separate domain truth, calibrated judgment, and deliberative synthesis.
03 — How we work
Cognition decoupled into deterministic domain truth, high-speed calibrated judgment, and deliberative synthesis — governed in a literate medium. Tools we reach for when stakes demand them — not the identity of ƐMinds.
Ontological Graph / TypeDB
Immutable business axioms, relations, and invariants. Formal relational logic and deductive inference — not semantic proximity.
ƐMinds Reflex Layer
Sub-100ms typed decisions — Choice, Score, Noul — operating on parameterized subgraphs with calibrated confidence.
Foundation LLMs
System 2 synthesis, invoked exclusively for generative or unstructured exceptions — never the inner state loop.
LEAP
Human-in-the-loop literate specifications where domain experts and autonomous agents collaborate in version-controlled harmony.
04 — Proof Points
Where sub-second, invariant-bound decisions are not optional.
In-line card fraud and transaction blocking under 100ms without breaking payment processor SLAs.
Automated Prior Authorization strictly bound to CMS guidelines and clinical coding ontologies.
Automated account renewal triage, churn defense, and expansion routing with zero human delay.
05 — Engagement
Phase 1 on-ramp: profile existing agent bottlenecks, map operational data onto systems that have to be right under load, and deliver a compiled LEAP specification ready for production sign-off.