[AI for Professional Services. Nothing Else.]

Vulcan installs intelligence
in your work.

Transform how your firm operates with custom AI trained on your unique methodologies, workflows, and intellectual property.

Who We Serve

Built specifically for consultancies, agencies, and in-house teams.

A consultative AI engineering practice, deliberately specialized in the industry we come from: model-neutral builds on Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, installed inside your stack. We spent thirty years running firms like yours. Generalists learn your business on your clock. We arrive knowing it.

Management, innovation, and brand consultanciesAdvertising, marketing, digital, and PR agenciesMedia agencies and companiesDesign firms and studiosIn-house teamsAdjacent firms in the larger expertise industry
The Method

A repeatable method to codify your intelligence.

Codify. Deploy. Scale. Optimize.
What We Build

Not "custom AI." These.

Every engagement produces working systems your team uses daily. A sample of what leaves our shop:

More on each system →

Why Vulcan

Push your intelligence into outcomes.

Everyone sells intelligence now. Nobody sells yours. Here is the difference, honestly drawn.

Industry standard
Paid to sell you more of their model
Engineers who can build anything and have run nothing
Fortune 500 transformations
Their own, always
Hand off and move on
[∧] Vulcan
Paid only for what works for you
Operators from thirty years inside your industry
Firms doing $5M to $200M
Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, matched and switched
An evolution retainer, measured in dashboards

The full argument, including the honest comparison table →

Proof

Case studies.

Four systems installed inside real firms. The results below were measured on live client work: the same team, before and after the install, with no added headcount.

All case studies →

Founders

Operators who've built and scaled firms like yours.

Michael Kantrow

Co-Founder
LinkedIn ↗

Thirty years as an operator: his first job, at an IPG agency, was introducing AT&T's email before the internet existed. He led major agencies at IPG, WPP, and Havas through the internet, mobile, and data eras, and has spent nearly two decades building Makeable, most recently remaking it as the AI-native Creative Capital Studio. Today he runs multiple businesses with intelligence installed inside the work. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

"The models are trained on everything ever posted. Wisdom isn't online."Why I'm building Vulcan

Latest field noteWisdom Isn't OnlineRead →

Pete Sena

Co-Founder
LinkedIn ↗

Founded Digital Surgeons at 19 and ran it for two decades, delivering brand experience for Unilever, PepsiCo, Microsoft, Google, LEGO, American Express, and Epic Games. Chief AI Officer since 2022, partner at The Resonance venture studio, builder of District New Haven, host of Forward Obsessed, and one of the most-followed AI operators on LinkedIn.

"I turn your best judgment into AI systems so growth stops depending on you."Why I'm building Vulcan

Latest field noteEvery Luxury Needs a MechanicRead →

Behind the founders is a senior team of eight: AI engineers, data architects, and workflow designers, drawn from the industry we build for. All field notes →

Contact

Discovery starts here.

A discovery call is exactly that: the beginning of discovery. Tell us about your firm in a two-minute survey, and the 30 minutes go where they should: your workflows, your culture, and an honest read on whether we're a fit.