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