Builder-led technology leadership for the AI era.
Syrtas is an AI-first technology consulting, software development, and modernization firm. We combine senior technology leadership, full-stack engineering, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, data engineering, and applied AI under one practice — spanning more than 25 years across software engineering, enterprise architecture, AI, InsurTech, MarTech, financial services, data platforms, regulated systems, engineering leadership, and patented technology development.
25+ years across the full stack of technology and business.
25+ years
Software engineering & enterprise architecture
Designing, shipping, and operating production systems across financial services, InsurTech, and data-intensive platforms.
Applied AI
AI, data platforms & patented technology
Hands-on experience building applied AI and data-platform technology, including patented work brought from concept to production.
Regulated systems
InsurTech, MarTech & financial services
Deep experience with regulated workflows, audit requirements, and the operational discipline that comes with them.
Leadership
Engineering leadership across the stack
Leading engineering organizations through modernization, crisis stabilization, and major platform transformation.
8 issued U.S. patents in AI-driven insurance technology.
This portfolio covers cognitive virtual assistants, AI-based enrollment and underwriting, and self-optimizing insurance quoting and comparison-shopping systems.
Self-optimizing, multi-channel, cognitive digital insurance rate quoting, comparison shopping and enrollment system and method
Inventors: Luis Silvestre (Miramar, FL) · Seth Cohen (Lighthouse, FL)
System and method for presenting one or more products to a user via a virtual assistant
Inventors: Luis Silvestre · Seth Cohen
AI-based system and method for enrolling a user using audio interaction
Inventors: Luis Silvestre · Seth Cohen
Method and system for providing a cognitive virtual health and life insurance customer service representative
Inventors: Luis Silvestre · Seth Cohen
System and method for pre-qualifying a consumer for life and health insurance products or services, benefits products or services based on eligibility and referring a qualified customer to a licensed insurance agent, producer or broker to facilitate the enrollment process
Inventors: Luis Silvestre · Seth Cohen
Multi-channel cognitive digital personal lines property and casualty insurance and home services rate quoting, comparison shopping and enrollment system and method
Inventors: Luis Silvestre · Seth Cohen
Self-optimizing, multi-channel, cognitive digital health and life insurance rate quoting, comparison shopping and enrollment system and method
Inventors: Luis Silvestre · Seth Cohen
Self-optimizing, multi-channel, cognitive virtual benefits product field underwriter and customer service representative
Inventors: Luis Silvestre · Seth Cohen
Advice from people who have actually built, shipped, and operated production technology.
The firm's approach is deliberately different from a traditional agency or a strategy-only advisory shop.
AI-First
AI isn't a feature. It changes how software is designed, developed, operated, and used.
Builder-Led
Advice comes from people who have actually designed, shipped, scaled, and operated production technology.
Executive + Engineering
The same organization can discuss technology strategy with the board and architecture with the engineering team.
Legacy + Frontier
Deep experience with traditional enterprise systems combined with modern AI-native architectures.
Vendor Independent
OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta, open-source, or specialized providers are tools — not religions.
Business-Oriented Engineering
Technology decisions are evaluated against revenue, operating cost, risk, scalability, and strategic value.
Built for Production
The objective isn't an impressive AI demo. The objective is software that actually runs the business.
Organizations where software matters strategically — even if it isn't the product.
The strongest fit is organizations where software is strategically important but technology itself isn't necessarily their primary business — from mid-market companies to private-equity portfolio companies to regulated enterprises.
Talk to UsAI strategy without implementation becomes PowerPoint.
Software development without strategy becomes technical debt.
We deliver strategy and implementation together, as one team.