The people

Nine people, one discipline: moving a company beyond its founder.

EUMENON is a senior team spanning AI systems, business operations, transaction finance, enterprise integration, partnerships, and counsel. Every engagement is owned by name, from first reconstruction to sustained operation.

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Jake Proffitt and Ethan Furgione, co-founders of EUMENON, on a rooftop in the city — JAKE PROFFITT · ETHAN FURGIONE CO-FOUNDERS

The discipline

Autonomy engineering is a whole-company discipline.

Making a founder-dependent business autonomous takes more than installed software. Its operating history has to be reconstructed, its judgment has to become usable by a successor, its systems have to permit real work, and its new independence has to survive financial, legal, and operating scrutiny.

Operating judgment: Recover the context, objectives, alternatives, exceptions, corrections, and outcomes behind the decisions that still return to the owner.
Successor architecture: Combine business memory, models, tools, decision policies, controls, evaluation, and audit into one company-specific operating system.
Systems integration: Connect the approved work surfaces and records where the company actually runs: communication, financial systems, operating software, portals, spreadsheets, and files.
Transaction strategy: Translate reduced owner dependence into evidence that a valuation specialist, buyer, lender, advisor, family successor, or management team can examine.
Managed operation: Operate early live work, capture corrections, test decision coverage, investigate errors, and move supported classes of work toward independent authority.
Legal discipline: Define permission, confidentiality, operating authority, certification roles, and transaction readiness before sensitive work is put into motion.

The name you will use

You talk to Eumen. The successor does the work.

Eumen is the conversational surface; the successor behind it is the operator. Each has its own page.

What Eumen is What the successor is

The current team

The nine.

Technical, operating, financial, relationship, and legal judgment, brought together because moving a company beyond its founder requires all five.

Jake Proffitt

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Before EUMENON, Jake founded Auguster Event Trading, where the quantitative systems he built and the research findings behind them generated eight figures in documented gains across a private member community he grew to hundreds of active traders. He then built Grey Mirror with Ethan Furgione into a multi-million dollar company doing AI-enabled embedded execution for businesses, spanning data systems, automation, technology integration, and custom software. His academic background is in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech.

At EUMENON, Jake sets the company's direction and leads the architecture for turning a founder's operating history and judgment into a successor that can run the business and earn outside trust. He is personally involved in every engagement from start to finish, with direct accountability for the result.

Ethan Furgione

Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer

Ethan joined Auguster's leadership as Jake's partner as the community grew to hundreds of active members, then co-founded Grey Mirror with him and built it into a multi-million dollar AI-enabled execution company, leading strategy, systems, and delivery across everything from data systems and automation to communications and custom software. His academic background spans engineering and economics at Vanderbilt.

At EUMENON, Ethan leads the operating system behind each engagement, from client coordination and delivery to the cadence that moves a successor from company reconstruction into live operation.

Nicolas “Nico” Hull

Chief Financial and Strategy Officer

Nico brings experience across exchange markets, investment banking, and private equity, with work at Kalshi, Goldman Sachs, Lexington Partners, and Halle Capital. His academic background is in philosophy at Vanderbilt.

At EUMENON, Nico leads finance and strategy, translating reduced owner dependence into the language of valuation, underwriting, diligence, and transferability.

Mickey Paulus

Chief Technology Officer

Mickey is a technical founder, product builder, and researcher. He co-founded Portal Labs and built the Portal Laptop, then co-authored research published in Scientific Data and helped develop its cardiac-signal annotation software. His academic background is in computer science at Georgia Tech.

At EUMENON, Mickey owns the architecture that joins models, operating memory, tools, evaluation, and authority into a successor that can act reliably inside a real company.

Joshua “Josh” Strong

Vice President, Corporate Development

Josh brings an investor's eye to corporate development. His experience includes Roark Capital and investment leadership at the Georgia Tech Student Foundation, alongside work across venture and private-equity environments. His academic background is in industrial engineering at Georgia Tech.

At EUMENON, Josh develops the relationships among owners, advisors, capital, and strategic partners that bring the right companies into the room.

Alec Hance

Vice President, Enterprise Systems Integration

Alec is an enterprise builder whose work spans consulting, software delivery, and technical leadership, including Accenture, senior development, and engineering leadership at Georgia Tech. His academic background is in computer science at Georgia Tech.

At EUMENON, Alec connects the systems and records where a client actually operates, turning fragmented software, communications, files, and workflows into infrastructure the successor can use.

Ethan Monforton

Vice President, Strategic Partnerships

Ethan combines investment analysis, operating experience, and relationship development. His background includes Bitterroot Capital Advisors and Grey Mirror, alongside economics, human and organizational development, and data science at Vanderbilt.

At EUMENON, Ethan builds the partnerships and trusted referral network required for private, introduction-led growth.

Charles “Barney” Ford

General Counsel

Barney brings an in-house counsel's perspective to EUMENON, with a focus on corporate structure and governance. His academic background is in law at The Catholic University of America.

At EUMENON, Barney leads legal architecture and counsel oversight, bringing permission, confidentiality, operating authority, and governance into the engagement before sensitive work begins.

Matthew Monforton

Corporate Counsel

Matthew's legal career spans prosecution, legislation, appellate work, and corporate counsel. He served as a Los Angeles deputy district attorney, represented a Montana district in the state House, and served as counsel on a petition before the U.S. Supreme Court. His academic background is in law at UCLA.

At EUMENON, Matthew supports corporate and transaction structure, aligning the client-facing promise with the authority and evidence the engagement produces.

Inside an engagement

Each piece of the work has a name on it.

The disciplines below run inside one operating model, and each carries a named owner for its part of the engagement.

FOUNDER LEADERSHIP

Jake owns the central promise and successor direction. Ethan Furgione owns delivery, coordination, and the operating rhythm of the engagement.

TECHNICAL BUILD

Mickey owns product and successor architecture. Alec connects the client's approved systems and turns fragmented operating evidence into usable infrastructure.

VALUE AND MARKET

Nico owns sale-value logic and buyer underwriting. Josh and Ethan Monforton support the advisor, partner, and relationship channels around a private transition.

COUNSEL

Barney and Matthew align permission, confidentiality, authority, evidence, and corporate structure with the work being performed.

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