The team

Built by people who
lived the problem.

Cyamate exists because Stephen spent 20 years on job sites watching the same knowledge gap cause the same problems. The team he built brings depth in mathematics, engineering, operations, and elite-level execution.

Stephen Hetherington
Co-Founder & CEO
Stephen Hetherington
Licensed General Contractor · Y Combinator Alumnus

Stephen isn't a tech founder who discovered construction — he is the customer. With 20 years in real estate development and a license as a General Contractor, he's lived the liability exposure, the subcontractor chaos, and the knowledge gap problem firsthand. He built Cyamate from scratch — no outside funding — and has already taken it live across multiple industries by recognizing that untested knowledge is a universal problem, not just a construction one.

20 Yrs Construction Licensed GC Y Combinator W21 Bootstrapped
Anthony Volpe
Co-Founder & CTA
Anthony Volpe
PhD Applied Mathematics, Harvard · Former CAO, Lenovo

The AI at the core of Cyamate isn't an off-the-shelf chatbot. It's built by Anthony — a Harvard PhD in Applied Mathematics who spent years as Chief Analytics Officer at Lenovo and co-founded Quantworks, Inc. When Anthony builds an adaptive probing engine, it's grounded in real mathematical rigor. The assessment doesn't just test — it thinks.

PhD Applied Math Harvard CAO Lenovo Quantworks
Danner Morrison
Co-Founder & CTO
Danner Morrison
MS Computational Mathematics · Edinburgh / UNC

Danner brings deep technical depth to the platform architecture — translating Anthony's mathematical models into production-grade software that works reliably in the field. His computational background ensures Cyamate scales without breaking as assessment volumes and platform complexity grow. The platform works because Danner built it to last.

MS Computational Math Edinburgh UNC Platform Architecture
Haruki Nakamura
Co-Founder & COO
Haruki Nakamura
2008 NFL Draft Pick · Baltimore Ravens & Carolina Panthers

High-performance teams aren't built in classrooms — they're built by people who've competed at the highest level. Haruki was a 2008 NFL Draft pick and team captain at Cincinnati. He brings elite-level execution, operational discipline, and an investor network to Cyamate's growth. He runs the operation the way he played — with precision and accountability.

2008 NFL Draft Baltimore Ravens Carolina Panthers Investor Network
Why we built this

The problem was
always the same.

Every incident Stephen investigated as a GC came back to the same root cause: a worker who didn't fully understand what they were doing. Not because they were careless — but because nobody had verified they understood it, documented that they understood it, or given them a way to ask when they weren't sure.

That gap isn't unique to construction. It exists in every industry where a knowledge failure creates liability — medical device sales, trucking, skilled trades education, manufacturing, food service, financial services. The training happened. The verification didn't.

Cyamate closes that gap. We verify understanding through conversation, not multiple choice. We document it automatically in a tamper-proof transcript that holds up in any proceeding. And we do it before anything goes wrong — not after.

"The transcript alone saves us from potential seven-figure exposure."
Beta customer — Regional general contractor
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