The people
The people trusted with getting your business out of your head.
Eumenon is a small, senior-run autonomy engineering team built across AI systems, business operations, transaction finance, enterprise integration, partnerships, and counsel. We work inside the company to build the full successor system that can carry its judgment without the owner at the center of every decision.
Autonomy engineering is a whole-company discipline.
A founder-dependent business does not become autonomous because someone installs 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, AI 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, including 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 toward independent authority.
- Legal discipline
- Define permission, confidentiality, operating authority, certification roles, and transaction readiness before sensitive work is put into motion.
Eumen is the conversation. The successor is the system.
The owner speaks with Eumen while the operating work happens across the full successor.
Eumen is the conversational layer used to review real cases, explain missing context, correct proposals, and approve work. Behind that interface is the successor: operating memory, connected tools, decision policies, risk controls, learning loops, coverage tests, and an audit record.
The ambition is full autonomy across the company's in-scope operating work. The successor begins by observing, then drafts, recommends, executes within limits, and earns broader authority through live performance. Through that same operating conversion, the company becomes AI-native as the successor gains memory, tools, feedback, and authority across the business.
The current team.
Nine people hold the technical, operating, financial, relationship, and legal responsibilities behind Eumenon's work.
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Jake Proffitt
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jake leads Eumenon's product vision, client offer, and successor architecture. Before Eumenon, he built quantitative market systems and co-founded Grey Mirror, a digital growth company operated through autonomous AI systems. He studied electrical engineering at Georgia Tech.
Jake owns the central question of the company: how to turn a founder's operating judgment into a successor that can run the business and earn outside trust.
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Ethan Furgione
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer
Ethan leads operating execution, client delivery, and the repeatable engagement system behind Eumenon. He has worked with Jake across Auguster, Grey Mirror, and Eumenon, and studied engineering and economics at Vanderbilt.
Ethan turns the promise into a clean client experience through mapping, coordination, delivery, and the operating cadence that keeps the engagement moving.
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Nicolas Hull
Lead, Finance and Strategy
Nicolas leads finance strategy, sale-value logic, and the buyer-underwriting side of the Eumenon offer. His background spans investment banking, private equity, and business development for a federally regulated exchange. He studied philosophy at Vanderbilt.
Nicolas translates successor coverage into the language buyers and advisors care about: value, risk, diligence, and transferability.
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Mickey Paulus
Lead, Technology and Product Systems
Mickey leads technical architecture across product systems, automation, and distributed infrastructure. He studied computer science, systems and architecture, and intelligence at Georgia Tech.
Mickey is responsible for making the successor technically coherent, reliable, and faithful to the way the client business actually operates.
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Joshua Strong
Lead, Corporate Development
Josh leads corporate development and advisor-channel strategy. He studied industrial engineering at Georgia Tech, led the Georgia Tech Student Foundation investments committee, and has experience across venture and private-equity environments.
Josh connects Eumenon with the owners, advisors, buyers, and strategic partners who encounter founder dependence before the broader market prices it correctly.
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Alec Hance
Lead, Enterprise Systems Integration
Alec leads enterprise systems integration. He studied computer science at Georgia Tech and has experience as a technology analyst at Accenture and as a senior developer.
Alec owns the messy middle of the engagement: connecting the systems where the business runs and making its operating record usable by the successor.
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Ethan Monforton
Lead, Strategic Partnerships
Ethan leads strategic partnerships and relationship development. He studied economics, human and organizational development, and data science at Vanderbilt, with experience across investment advisory, software investment, research, and Grey Mirror.
Ethan develops the trusted referral and partnership network required for private, introduction-led growth.
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Charles Ford
General Counsel
Charles leads legal architecture and counsel oversight for Eumenon's client engagements. His role is to make sure the work is structured with the seriousness the assignment requires: scope, permission, confidentiality, operating authority, evidence, and transaction readiness.
Charles makes legal structure part of the engineering work from the beginning, before access is granted or authority expands.
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Matthew Monforton
Corporate Counsel
Matthew supports corporate counsel, transaction structure, and the legal process around Eumenon's engagements.
Matthew keeps the corporate side of the engagement aligned with the client-facing promise and the evidence Eumenon produces.
How the team appears in an engagement.
A client does not get passed into a generic implementation queue. The work has named ownership, and the disciplines are coordinated inside one operating model.
- 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
- Nicolas owns sale-value logic and buyer underwriting. Josh and Ethan Monforton support the advisor, partner, and relationship channels around a private transition.
- Counsel
- Charles and Matthew align permission, confidentiality, authority, evidence, and corporate structure with the work being performed.
Discreet by design.
The companies Eumenon serves are private, and their transitions are often sensitive. We do not turn an owner's operating history into public case-study theater. Client identity, internal records, and evidence remain private unless the client authorizes disclosure.
Access, permission, confidentiality, and disclosure are treated as part of autonomy engineering, not as paperwork added after the technical work.
If your business still depends on you, the people matter.
The private fit screen helps you organize where the company still routes judgment through you and what kind of transfer, retirement, sale, or owner freedom you are trying to create. It scores locally, then lets you keep the summary private or download it and email Jake for review.