ABOUT STEERCO

We didn't discover this problem. We lived it.

Steerco was built by operators who'd spent a decade watching companies lose revenue they'd already paid to win. Anonymous visitors who disappeared. Deals that stalled for lack of a timely, bespoke follow-up. Customers who churned because nobody caught the risk signal in time. We left to close those leaks — and enterprises asked us to close them at scale.

OUR STORY · CHAPTER 1

The execution gap.

Before Steerco, we were the operators managing large portfolios — running QBRs, building board decks at 11 PM, pulling numbers from CRM and product analytics into slides that nobody could trace. Every quarter, the same broken cycle. We were converting maybe 3% of our website traffic while the other 97% walked away unidentified. We were losing deals because follow-up took hours instead of minutes. We were watching customers churn because expansion signals surfaced too late.

AI was supposed to fix this. Instead, generic chatbots produced confident outputs with no data lineage, no persistence, and no connection to the actual revenue motion. Fast to generate, useless at scale. So we built the thing we wished existed: one system built around the two halves of revenue — growing it and retaining it. On the lead-generation side, we de-anonymize website traffic, identify decision-makers, filter by ICP, and deploy personalized outreach. On the retention side, we automate the client-facing deliverables — monthly reports, QBRs, EBRs, dashboards, portals, health reports, and renewals. Every action tied to live data, every outcome measurable.

OUR STORY · CHAPTER 2

Then enterprises asked us a bigger question.

While we were building Steerco, the same conversation kept happening. Customers would say: "This solves our engagement problem. But our real problem is bigger — how do we actually roll out measurable AI across the whole function? Marketing, finance, ops, CS. Without ending up with a dozen pilots and zero ROI."

That's how Practical AI was born. Same operators. Same engineering DNA. Applied to the function-by-function rollout problem most companies can't solve on their own. We audit the function, design the AI-native workflow, and ship the agent that does the work — measured, governed, and live. Custom built across GTM, Marketing, Ops, Finance, R&D, and CS.

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— TEAM

We Didn't Discover This Problem. We Lived It.

Three operators who've sat in your seat — running portfolios, fielding 11 PM board prep, building production AI before "AI-native" was a LinkedIn bio.

Zach Hawley

Zach Hawley

CEO & Co-Founder

14 years in enterprise SaaS. Ran a $200M+ portfolio at Workiva. Has been building production AI products since GPT-3.5 — long before "AI-native" was a LinkedIn bio. Knows the difference between a demo that wins a meeting and a system that survives a board review.

Nate Tucker

Nate Tucker

Head of Product & CS · Co-Founder

The operator AI was supposed to replace. Lived the manual prep cycle across hundreds of accounts, then rebuilt it. Has a sharp instinct for what AI can actually ship — and a low tolerance for the rest.

Grant Borgognoni

Grant Borgognoni

Founding Engineer · Co-Founder

Valedictorian. Top 10 worldwide in Call of Duty. Builds full-stack AI for big-data enterprises. Architected the multi-agent system that makes Steerco hold up where single-prompt tools fall apart.

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Operators on both sides of the table.

If your team is buried in the same cycle we were — or your board is asking what's actually live — let's talk.