The team

Four founders.
Not a single tourist.

Built by operators who lived the problem before they built the company. A general contractor, a computational mathematician, a Harvard PhD, and an NFL operator — aligned on one mission.

Stephen Hetherington
Co-Founder · CEO

Stephen Hetherington

Licensed General Contractor · Y Combinator W21

Twenty years in construction. Lived the gap between training and worker readiness on real job sites before he built the company designed to close it. Drives strategy, customer relationships, and the company narrative.

Strategy Sales Construction
Danner Morrison
Co-Founder · CTO

Danner Morrison

MS Computational Mathematics · Edinburgh / UNC

Built the auto-grading engine that delivers a graded transcript in 30–60 seconds. The reason Cyamate ships features other AI assessment tools talk about. Owns the platform end to end.

Engineering AI / RAG Architecture
Anthony Volpe
Co-Founder · CTA

Anthony Volpe

PhD Applied Mathematics, Harvard · Founder, Quantworks

Former Chief Analytics Officer at Lenovo. The mathematical architecture behind how Cyamate measures, scores, and learns from every conversation. The depth that makes the platform defensible.

Analytics Modeling Research
Haruki Nakamura
Co-Founder · COO

Haruki Nakamura

2008 NFL Draft · Baltimore Ravens · Carolina Panthers

Operator. Former NFL safety who brings the discipline of a pro locker room to how Cyamate runs. Owns business development, partnerships, and the operational rigor that turns customers into champions.

Operations BD Partnerships
The mission

Anywhere a knowledge gap has real consequences, we close it — and produce the proof that it's been closed.

Built without outside capital. Already in the field. Going where the work actually happens.

Talk to the team.

Twenty minutes. We'll show you the platform, walk through a live assessment, and answer anything on your mind.