Two practices. One brand. Same standards.
Senior operator leadership with twenty-plus years across aerospace, fintech, and advanced compute. Fractional executive work, strategic advisory, GTM, and operations help for founders who are scaling.
See the Operating practice →Senior ML capability paired with commercial and operating experience, building and operating production AI for growing businesses. Technical delivery is led by PhD-level data scientists. Additional senior talent steps in when scope calls for it.
See the AI practice →The standards are the same on both sides: senior leadership on every engagement, operator-grade work, and we stay to operate what we ship. The shape of the team is different. The discipline is not.
Steve Gibson.
Aerospace engineer turned startup operator turned executive leader. Twenty-plus years building and scaling, from spacecraft integration at ESA to a Goldman Sachs acquisition to taking advanced compute and AI to market. I am here to help founders build companies that actually work.
Hans-Inge Langø, PhD.
Data scientist and political scientist working at the edge of AI, policy, and applied research. Hans builds NLP, LLM evaluation, and analytics systems for organizations dealing with complex text, high-stakes decisions, and messy data. Here to help clients turn ambiguity into evidence, workflows, and tools that hold up in the real world.
Because we have all been in the room
Between us, we have been the first hire at a company with no product and no revenue. We have sat across the table from Goldman Sachs during acquisition due diligence. We have built financial systems from a blank spreadsheet, hired teams during hypergrowth, and published peer-reviewed research on systems that have to hold up under real-world scrutiny.
That is why Scalewright exists. Not to advise, but to operate. Too many growing businesses get sold AI promises that never ship, or operational advice from people who have never actually run anything. We have done both. We bring commercial execution and scientific rigor to the same engagement, and we stay until the work holds up.
Working with us means
Operators, not advisors
We do not hand over a slide deck and disappear. We embed with your team, set up the systems, run the builds, and stay until the engine is running. Steve has been the first ops hire at a pre-seed startup, a VP at Goldman Sachs, and a CCO taking advanced compute to market. Hans has built and evaluated production AI for organizations where the output has to be defensible.
Scientific rigor on the AI side
The AI practice is led by a PhD data scientist with peer-reviewed research and real production builds. Not a prompt engineer. Not a wrapper around a commercial API. Rigorous evaluation, fine-tuned models, and an honest read on what the system can and cannot do.
Twenty-plus years of pattern recognition
From spacecraft integration at ESA to a Goldman Sachs acquisition to taking advanced compute to market, the same operational patterns show up at every stage of growth. After two decades across aerospace, fintech, and advanced compute, we can spot what is breaking before it breaks.
Ops as the product
The best companies we have worked with treat operational excellence as their competitive advantage. Finance, sales, HR, compliance, vendor management: these are not overhead. They are the engine that lets you scale. We build the engine.
Honest on fit
If AI will not help your business right now, we will tell you. If your ops problem is a process issue, not a headcount issue, we will tell you that too. We would rather give you a clear diagnosis than take a retainer for work that does not move the needle.
We are probably not the right fit if…
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If any of this sounds like what you need, we would love to hear about your company, even if it is just to trade notes on the challenges of scaling.