30+ years, 12+ companies, $500M in sales
We are an AI-focused, digital product agency enabling entrepreneurs and brands to fulfill their potential by applying our 30+ years of software product expertise to craft innovative and disruptive digital products leveraging the latest in generative AI, NLP and LLMs.
Our team.
Scott Kveton
Scott is a serial entrepreneur. He was co-founder and CEO of Airship, Odava, Bacn.com, and has raised $50M in venture capital. He has been active in open source/standards groups over the past 15 years. Beyond technology, Scott is father, husband, avid meat smoker, from-scratch pizza maker and of course, bacon lover.
Alyssa Meritt
Alyssa helps organizations overcome some of their toughest strategy and digital operations problems. Her 20-year career includes creating and leading global SaaS professional services organizations, as well as agency and client-side marketing strategy roles. She was an early employee at StudentUniverse.com and Language Corps, and held leadership roles at Airship, Contentful and Lytics.
Steven Osborn
Steven is an experienced hardware and software technologist having co-founded Airship, Smart Mocha, Odava and Ronoth. He is adept and sizing up technical challenges and providing oversight on new projects as well as retrofitting existing ones. Steven also enjoys time with his two children as well as working on his 67’ Pontiac Firebird.
Where We’ve Worked, What We’ve Built
Navigating the complex world of AI and the impact on your startup or brand can be tricky. With a deep understanding of the generative AI landscape and experience scaling companies and enabling brands, Fractionalist is the perfect partner as you integrate LLMs into your strategy.
Values
Ship quickly
Pontificating isn’t our thing. We like to build things quickly and get them to market and in the hands of customers so we can get a sense of how they are using it. This gives us the means to learn and iterate all while saving time for our clients. We pride ourselves on shipping high-quality and scalable MVP/POCs for our clients knowing the lessons learned will help serve the future far more quickly than months and months of planning.
Not just a hammer
Abraham Maslow once said, “To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” We pride ourselves on making sure we’re using the latest tools that have a high likelihood of success beyond being just something shiny and fancy today. Integrating the old with the new with an eye towards near-term maintainability gives us a significant advantage over our contemporaries.
Open and honest
We know what we can do and more importantly what we cannot do. We’re never going to sell you a bill of goods for something we’ve never done. The caveat to that is when you’re trying to do something that has never been done; in that case, we’ll still get it done all while being open and honest about the potential for success and failure.
Empower and enable
We strive to make our clients heroes at their respective companies. If we can help you succeed in what you’re trying to accomplish at your company and do it under budget and in time, we make you look like an all-star. This is a value that is deeply instilled in our team and it’s driven a great deal of our success over the years.
Scalability/Security/Privacy
When given the option for scalability, security or privacy often times agencies will tell you to “pick one” and cross your fingers on the rest. Not Fractionalist. We pride ourselves on implementing the most scalable and secure solutions because we have been doing this for years. We know the pitfalls and tradeoffs of doing it half-way.
"When the chips are down, Alyssa and Scott deliver. Building a startup is ridiculously hard and having the team at Fractionalist help us with telling our story we were able to raise our pre-seed, and now seed round, much faster than without them."
-Matt Restivo, mBark Founder & CEO