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Our mission

The companies that build the country shouldn't be last to get AI.

One mission: get AI off the coasts and into the hands of the firms that build, make, and run the country.

What we believe

AI should compound productivity in the physical economy, not just in software.

Software ate the world. AI is now eating software. The physical economy, the firms that build, restore, and operate the country, is still typing things in by hand.

Most of those firms live outside the coastal tech corridors. Texas, Ohio, Florida, the Carolinas, the Midwest, the Mountain West. They have the least access to AI engineers and the most to lose if they fall behind.

Anthropic's Dario Amodei said it plainly on the Dwarkesh Patel podcast (Feb 2026): the gains from AI will concentrate in Silicon Valley and the regions socially connected to it. The rest catch up later, if at all.

You don't need to hire AI engineers, stand up an internal team, or pick the model. We do the adoption work; you keep building the business. AI on the jobsite, not in a slide deck.

Dario Amodei · Dwarkesh Patel podcast · Feb 2026
What we hear most
“We know we need to adopt AI.
We just don't know where to start.”

That's why Kommon isn't just software. We're the AI partner you'd hire if you had a CTO who knew construction. We tell you where AI fits, where it doesn't, and we build the SOPs that actually move the needle.

The team

On the jobsite and shipping software.

Most teams have one or the other. We have both. Embedded weekly with construction firms. Cut our teeth as engineers at Yahoo, Splunk, Instacart, Squint, and Lockheed. Standing in both worlds is the product.

Chris Chan

Chris Chan

CEO, Co-Founder

Built agents and mobile apps at Yahoo, where he won more hackathons (13) than anyone in company history. Previously cofounded Tanda, a venture-backed fintech startup. Prolific speaker who explains technology in plain English. Industry leaders, non-profits, TEDx. 11 US patents. Spent his career shipping software people actually use. Kommon is the same job, pointed at the industries software keeps skipping.

The hacker

Previously at Yahoo · Splunk · Tanda

Matt Buckle

Matt Buckle

Co-Founder

Trained US Navy crews to operate Lockheed Martin's Aegis missile defense system. Led engineering teams at Splunk. Knows how to ship software to operators whose jobs depend on it working the first time, every time.

The rocket scientist

Previously at Lockheed · Yahoo · Splunk

Allyson Aberg

Allyson Aberg

Co-Founder

Founding engineer at Squint (venture-backed), where she built the AR mobile app that put AI in the hands of manufacturing operators. Shipped the AI product-identification feature on Instacart. Built the Splunk Observability mobile app. She's done this work before, in the industries Kommon now serves.

The pilot

Previously at Splunk · Squint · Instacart

Start with a conversation

Talk to a founder.

20-minute call with Chris, Matt, or Allyson · no slides · no sales engineer