Building AI‑native businesses with aligned experts
Bring what you know. Build what you own.
xVentures gives experienced people a way to build and own a meaningful part of a growing business without building the whole company themselves.
We provide the technology, infrastructure, and operating platform. Partners bring expertise, relationships, and judgment to the areas they know best. Start with one vertical, grow into the ones next to it, and build your portfolio over time.
Different businesses. Shared infrastructure.
Each business serves its own customers and runs on the same technology and operating capabilities. Partners build the verticals inside them, and what each vertical builds flows back into the platform for the next.
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The platform
Catalyst finds what’s costing a business time, money, and capacity. Audits are the starting point. The platform turns what they find into software, workflows, and AI agents built around how that business runs.
Verticals
Built by partners and councils
Early, by design
The platform is in use and all three businesses are live. Each earns a mix of service and software revenue, and each starts with something free.
Platform
Running. AI agents, context, workflows, and operating systems are in use across the businesses.
The shared foundation every business runs on.
Catalyst Studio
Live and selling.
Free way in
Free audits a business can run itself
Revenue
Catalyst-run audits, fixes, and the platform
Surehand
Live, with its first family services in testing.
Free way in
Free things to do with kids
Revenue
A Weekly Picks subscription, weekend trips, and planned services like birthday parties and tutoring
SOFE
Live with families.
Free way in
A free trial
Revenue
A one-time license, with AI usage billed as it’s used
We’re early. Each business is proving the model one vertical at a time, on a platform that’s already in use.
The people building it
A small core team, the first council, and specialists who bring one skill each.
Core team
Mike Anderson
Founder
Twenty-five years finding and removing operational waste, including a Six Sigma program at EY that cut more than $5M and a 400-person overhaul at Freedom Mortgage.
Adam Elfiky
Partner, Delivery & Client Success
Former Director at KPMG. Led enterprise delivery for Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Barclays Wealth Management.
Kids’ learning and tutoring council
Criselda Anderson
Educator
MBA in early childhood education. Teaches at Avenues in New York, and has a gift for kids’ parties.
Jackie Kircher
Educator
New York City educator.
Specialists
Eric Chu
Responsible AI
Rob Levin
Growth and marketing
Liz Cuccinello
Legal
Eric Harlovic
Finance
The vertical is where you build
A partner, or a small group of partners, takes real responsibility for one area of a business. No one has to start a company to pursue the opportunity.
How a vertical can grow, in Surehand
- 1Kids’ birthday parties
- 2Kids’ events
- 3Family events
- 4Local experiences
A partner who starts with kids’ birthday parties can grow that into local experiences. As the scope widens, their role and their share can grow with it.
The business already supplies
The partner brings knowledge of the market and the relationships in it. The platform barely changes as the vertical grows.
Councils build a vertical together
A council is a small group of aligned experts who shape one vertical and share in what it becomes.
Our first council
Kids’ learning and tutoring council
A handful of educators and education experts shape:
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Technology, AI agents, operating systems
Surehand
The customer, the brand, the outcome
Council
Expertise, relationships, key decisions
Providers
Deliver each party, class, and session
What each side brings
xVentures provides
- Technology and AI agents
- Product development
- Family and business context
- Operations and administration
- Customer and data infrastructure
- Brands and the businesses behind them
- The partner network
- Capital, and lessons from every other vertical
You provide
- Domain expertise
- Market knowledge
- Relationships
- Customer and provider access
- Judgment
- Leadership of a vertical
Two kinds of ownership
xVentures equity
A share in the value of the company underneath every business.
Vertical economics
A share of what the vertical you help build earns.
You can be a partner in xVentures without taking part in every business.
We’re looking for people who want to help build
xVentures keeps the core team small and brings in the right expertise where it counts.
01
Keep your independence
Keep your company, your career, and your other projects.
02
Build something real
Your expertise goes into a working business: its services, its standards, its relationships.
03
Share in the upside
Your contribution can turn into xVentures equity and a share of what your vertical earns.
What partnership can look like
A few hours a month
Light involvement
Expert input, introductions, and a say in key decisions.
Regular working sessions
Council member
Market development, service design, and key decisions for one vertical.
Ongoing
Vertical partner
Leads a vertical: customers, relationships, standards, and growth.
From expertise to ownership
- 1
Find the opportunity
An area where your expertise gives you an edge.
- 2
Define the vertical
Agree on the market, the customer, the offer, and the scope.
- 3
Sign the agreement
Your role, your time, and how you share in the results, in writing.
- 4
Build and contribute
Use the platform. Bring expertise, relationships, customers, and judgment.
- 5
Grow your share
Your participation follows your role and contribution, and widens with the vertical.
Contribution creates opportunity. Opportunity creates ownership. Ownership gives everyone a reason to keep building.
Illustrative economics
Contribution you can see, tied to what you own
xVentures is building the tools to make each partner’s contribution visible over time. Eligible contributions earn Contribution Credits, and the record feeds into each partner’s share.
Your participation
Partner equity
Up to0.5%
A year, in xVentures. 12-month vesting, 3-month cliff.
Contribution equity
Up to1%
A year, earned through eligible contributions.
Vertical economics
Revenue or profit share
In the vertical you build, where it applies.
Built for independent experts
Participation is earned over time and set out in a written agreement. Each agreement covers:
How Contribution Credits add up
One credit is worth $25 of contribution value.
- Contribution Credits400
- Contribution value$10,000
- Example company value$1M
- Illustrative equity1.0%
Credits measure contribution value. They don’t turn into equity automatically: awards depend on the partner agreement, the kind of contribution, and the opportunity being built. The company values are examples for the math and say nothing about what xVentures is worth.
Build your portfolio over time
Start where your expertise is strongest. As you contribute and build trust, you can expand into nearby verticals and other businesses. Your relationship is with xVentures. Your share follows what you help build.
One partner’s portfolio, a few years in
Surehand
- Kids’ events
- Local experiences
Catalyst Studio
- Advertising audit council
SOFE
- School and education
Every vertical makes the next one easier to build
What one vertical builds stays in the platform. The next one starts further ahead.
A vertical grows
and leaves behind
- New AI agents and workflows
- Provider and expert relationships
- Customer insight
- Operating knowledge
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The platform gets stronger
The next vertical
starts with all of it on day one
Why this can be capital efficient
Technology built once
Every vertical runs on the same agents, workflows, and systems.
Fewer duplicate hires
Expertise joins where it’s needed, at the scale it’s needed.
Faster tests
A new vertical starts with customers, tools, and standards in place.
Relationships carry across
Partners, providers, and customer insight are shared between businesses.
For investors
Why invest in xVentures
xVentures AI Inc. is a single Delaware C corporation that holds the IP and brands of every business. An investment is in that company.
A shared technology layer
Capital builds infrastructure that supports several businesses and many verticals.
Several paths to revenue
Catalyst, Surehand, SOFE, and future businesses grow on their own while using the same capabilities.
Experts with a stake
The people closest to each market share in what it earns.
Knowledge that carries forward
What works in one vertical cuts the time and cost of the next.
A growing portfolio
The company gathers businesses, capabilities, and relationships over time, so no single vertical has to carry it.
What xVentures holds
- Core technology and AI agents
- Software and IP
- Shared workflows and operating systems
- Family and business context infrastructure
- The Catalyst Studio, Surehand, and SOFE brands
- The partner network
Every business is part of the same company, and each one adds to what it holds.
How the money flows
Customer
Pays for a service or software
Business
Catalyst, Surehand, or SOFE, all part of xVentures
Vertical economics
Partners who built that vertical take their share
xVentures
Keeps the rest, along with the platform it builds
We share investment terms directly with each interested investor.
What changed
01
AI changed the cost of coordination
Agents now handle much of the scheduling, tracking, and follow-up a business runs on.
02
Expertise travels
People contribute deeply to a company without joining it full time.
03
Software adapts
One set of infrastructure can be shaped to fit very different businesses.
Together they make room for a company organized around expertise, technology, and ownership.
Who we’re looking for
Fractional partners
Deep expertise and the wish to build and own a vertical.
Get in touch
Council members
Domain knowledge, relationships, and standing in a market.
Get in touch
Specialists
A specific skill we can use across the businesses.
Get in touch
Strategic investors
Back the company underneath several businesses and the verticals growing on it.
Get in touch
What we’re building toward
A company where talented people build meaningful businesses without building all the infrastructure themselves.
- Start with one vertical.
- Build into the ones next to it.
- Carry the technology, relationships, and knowledge forward.
- Build a larger portfolio of ownership over time.
We’re building the network now.
The platform is in use and the first businesses are live. Now we’re bringing in the people who will grow them.
mike@xventuresai.com