Meet the Team
We don't just consult — we build and use these systems ourselves.
Our approach combines human expertise with AI collaboration. Meet the agents we've built to enhance our work, and the humans who guide them.
The Humans
Real Expertise, Real People
The people behind Authentic Intelligence. Human judgment guiding AI capability.
Coby
Founder & Chief Innovator
Deep thinker and problem solver. The human mind behind Authentic Intelligence, Coby explores the patterns connecting business, technology, and human relationships. When not philosophizing, you'll find him flying, paddle boarding, or tinkering with electronics.
Brad
Lead Prototype & Platform Developer
Researcher, tinkerer, and fixer. Brad builds the platforms and prototypes that turn ideas into working systems. When he's not coding, you'll find him flying or playing bass.
Mary
Client Communications
Galvanizer who pushes tasks through to completion. Mary keeps projects moving and clients connected. When she's not driving results, you'll find her gardening, cooking, or making cards.
AI Collaborators
The Agent Team
AI collaborators we've built to enhance our work. This isn't theory — it's how we work every day.
Socrates
Vision & Alignment
Clarity through questioning, surfacing intent and gaps
Turns early ideas into clear direction through thoughtful, challenging questions that surface intent and gaps before they become problems.
Plato
Requirements & Definition
Structuring ideas into buildable requirements
Takes a clear vision and turns it into something that can realistically be built — defining requirements, constraints, and risks.
Galileo
Planning & Dependencies
Breaking projects into sequenced, actionable plans
Maps how work will actually unfold — breaking projects into epics, stories, and dependencies with clear sequencing.
Newton
Execution & Delivery
Atomic work units with precise context and criteria
Turns planning into progress by breaking work into small, self-contained units with clear context and success criteria.
Transparent about our AI collaboration. Professional capability with systematic execution.
Our Methodology
A Disciplined Path to Discovery
How We Think Differently About AI Collaboration
Each AI teammate is actually a cross-functional team of agents, skills, and tools working together. They mimic how real teams collaborate and make decisions. Designed to work alongside us from start to finish, they're not one-shot prompts or black boxes. By separating clarity, requirements, planning, and execution, we slow thinking down in the right places. That reduces guesswork and hallucinations, and leads to predictable outcomes.
A big part of this process is helping humans get clear on their thinking first. When you understand your intent, assumptions, and decisions, you can better guide how AI reasons and works. Clear human thinking leads to clear AI execution. The agents follow that clarity step by step, rather than jumping to conclusions.
Our approach started years ago as theory. Today it's something we use every day to build real, complex systems. Even so, there's still a sense of awe in watching it work. Not because AI can build things, but because it's amplifying the visions we have in mind. We focused on the atomic level: how work actually gets done, how decisions really get made. What opened up was a galaxy of possibilities. The power isn't in the answers the AI gives, but in what it amplifies. When authentic intelligence goes in, that intelligence comes back clearer, stronger, and more complete. We remain in control as engineers and decision-makers. The agents don't replace how we think. They extend it.
That's Authentic Intelligence.
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Fancy Prompts
Structured Agent Teams
Clarity-First Process
Human Control + AI Amplification
Battle-Tested Methodology
When authentic intelligence goes in, that intelligence comes back clearer and more complete.
Alternative Engagement
Research Partnership Program
Co-Create at the Frontier
For organizations seeking more than vendor delivery — a collaborative exploration where both parties invest and both benefit.
IdeaSpring invests development time and reduced rates. You invest domain expertise and commitment. Together we advance understanding while solving your challenges.
What We Invest
- • Development time and methodology
- • Reduced rates for collaborative exploration
- • Framework co-creation and support
What You Invest
- • Domain expertise and real use cases
- • Commitment to collaborative process
- • Willingness to iterate deeply
Partnership is selective — both parties invest and both benefit.
Ready to Work Together?
Whether you're exploring Discovery or considering a Research Partnership, let's start a conversation.
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