AI executives · For owner-operators

You built your company. We help you scale it.

We build bespoke AI executives
To grow your company, profitably

By appointment only.
Late afternoon light in the lobby of The Cabinet.

The future is already here. It is just not in every company yet. We build it into yours.

What the market offers

An owner who wants AI today has two roads. Neither one works.

The first road

The inexperienced builder.

Stands something up in a weekend. Looks like progress. Breaks in twenty days, takes the customer's data with it, on a problem nobody documented.

The second road

The large firm.

Will not start the conversation under three hundred thousand dollars. Six months of discovery before a line of code. By the time it ships, the bottleneck has moved.

An owner alone, weighing options that will not work.
Where we sit

Built for the problems you cannot afford to get wrong.

Not every problem needs an executive. The question is what a mistake would cost you.

Low stakes

Ask a chatbot.

A recipe. A translation. A first draft. Twenty dollars a month, and a wrong answer costs you nothing.

A mistake costs nothing.
Rising stakes

The weekend build.

A scraped dashboard. Some basic research. Useful, until it touches real data. It breaks quietly, and nobody is on the hook.

A mistake costs a restart.
High stakes

A bespoke AI executive.

Your money. Your customers. Your books. Your know-how. Work that cannot leak and cannot fail quietly. Private infrastructure, encrypted, and someone accountable for it. This is the work we take.

A mistake costs the company.

If the stakes are low, we are not your firm. If they are high, we should talk.

The third way

An operator and an innovator, in one room.

The Cabinet builds bespoke AI executives that run inside your company, pairing experienced business professionals with agentic AI on fully encrypted, private infrastructure.

The judgment to name the problem and the skill to build the fix rarely sit at one table. Here, they do.

Edward J. Shehab
Co-founder · Operator
Forty years across commercial banking, private equity, and operating companies, including a consulting firm he co-founded and sold across three continents. He has sat in the operator's chair, and names the right problem before anyone builds.
Oliver Stamatoski
Co-founder · Innovator
An aerospace and automotive engineer with multiple patents, who rose to Vice President of a 1.5 billion dollar product line in global automotive. He builds AI executives and puts them to work where the business actually hurts.
See the full team
Edward Shehab and Oliver Stamatoski.
How working with us works

A three-step plan. No surprises.

No twelve-week discovery. No deck. No pressure. A conversation, then we move.

i.

A working session.

Sixty minutes with you and your people. We listen. We name the bottleneck. You leave with a written diagnosis, whether you hire us or not.

ii.

A working prototype.

Days, not quarters. The bottleneck cleared. AI in the back. Your people redeployed. An executive you can test against your own business.

iii.

A working partnership.

We stay in. We adjust as you grow. Upfront fee plus a monthly retainer sized to what we run for you. Weigh it against a hire, not a license.

The catalog

Meet your Cabinet.

Each seat holds a bespoke AI executive, built for your company. They keep executing long after the office has emptied. You appoint only the ones your bottleneck calls for.

Meet the Cabinet
The evidence

Four bottlenecks. Four builds. Four solutions.

Ninety seconds each. Every build is still running today.

Video still: an invoice read by sight, then coded.
A custom home builder · The Midwest

Sixty to eighty trade invoices a day, keyed in by hand.

A bookkeeping executive took the work. The books close themselves now.

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Video still: one story, written for each channel.
An industrial automation firm · Michigan

Marketing ran on the owner's spare hours.

A content engine took it over. The pipeline fills while the plant runs.

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Video still: Jessica, the voice executive.
A sales training firm · Michigan

Calls came in while everyone was in session.

A voice executive answers now. The meeting is booked before the caller hangs up.

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Video still: the steel intelligence dashboard.
A utility's steel program

Steel prices moved before the team heard about it.

A private market desk watches prices, tariffs, and peers. They act ahead of the move.

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There is more than fits on a page. In a working session, we show you the rest.

The infrastructure

Private by construction.

Every executive runs in its own dedicated AWS account, encrypted at rest and in transit. Nothing pooled. Nothing shared. Nothing trained on. The Cabinet is a member of NVIDIA Inception, NVIDIA's program for AI companies.

Built on AWS
Member · NVIDIA Inception
A direct invitation

Schedule a working session.

Sixty minutes. We listen. We diagnose. You leave with a written diagnosis of the bottleneck, whether you hire us or not.

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