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Who we work with
5HC experts have delivered hundreds of hours of one-on-one sessions with founders, CEOs, managing partners, and CFOs at multi-billion-dollar hedge funds, private equity firms, public companies, and founder-led businesses. Most clients come by referral.
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Bring the decision, workflow, or build you need to move, and work it live with the expert. Most sessions end with concrete next steps, and many produce working artifacts: prompts, working documents, plans you can run the next day.
Featured experts
Working practitioners, graded on every session they deliver.
- AI Strategy
- Financial AI
Alex Wilkinson
AI strategist and Founder/CIO of Algorithmic Capital
Alex is an AI strategist and the Founder/CIO of Algorithmic Capital, where he architects machine learning systems for algorithmic trading. As an active entrepreneur, he brings first-hand experience applying generative AI to streamline real-world business processes. He founded Automata, an AI-agent product that handles email, phone, and calls, and leads its development team. He works with companies applying AI to their operating workflows. Alex specializes in helping executives cut through the hype to deploy AI solutions that solve complex business problems.
- Financial AI
- AI Strategy
Brandon Adams
Founder of 5HC; economic and financial analysis with LLMs
Brandon Adams taught undergraduate courses for nine years at Harvard in behavioral finance, game theory, and international macroeconomics, and for three years at the University of Miami. He was the primary research assistant for Michael Lewis' The Big Short. His first encounters with AI came in the mid-2000s, when he studied AI applied to poker. He founded 5HC to teach executives how to use AI — hands-on, one-on-one, on the executive's real work.
- AI Engineering
- Code Generation
Damian Galarza
Fractional CTO; AI agent architecture and developer tooling
Damian Galarza is a fractional CTO and software engineer with more than 15 years of experience building production systems. He focuses on AI-agent architecture, production AI engineering, and developer tooling. He works with technical founders and product teams evaluating an architecture, restarting a stalled AI initiative, or integrating coding agents into an existing development process.
- Productivity & Workflows
- AI Strategy
Kory Kilpatrick
AI consultant; software engineer and product leader since 2015
Kory Kilpatrick is a software engineer and product leader who has worked with AI since 2015. He has built and sold software products, primarily in gambling and finance, and earlier in his career was a top-ranked poker player and World Series of Poker champion. His consulting work runs from technical implementation with startups to teaching non-technical executives to work fluently with AI. His longest 5HC client engagements have run past twenty sessions. He helps clients understand what current AI systems can and can't do, pick the right workflows, and build the judgment to use them well.
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