About Syrtas

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.

Background

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.

Patented Work

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.

US 12,688,535GrantFiled April 5, 2023Granted July 21, 2026

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)

Assignee: PATTY, LLC (Deerfield Beach, FL)App. No. 18/131,098Primary Examiner: Edward J. Baird
US 12,243,081GrantFiled September 27, 2021Granted March 4, 2025

System and method for presenting one or more products to a user via a virtual assistant

Inventors: Luis Silvestre · Seth Cohen

Assignee: PATTY, LLC (Deerfield Beach, FL)App. No. 17/485,931
US 12,086,889GrantFiled March 14, 2024Granted September 10, 2024

AI-based system and method for enrolling a user using audio interaction

Inventors: Luis Silvestre · Seth Cohen

Assignee: PATTY, LLC (Deerfield Beach, FL)App. No. 18/605,797
US 11,961,146GrantFiled February 22, 2023Granted April 16, 2024

Method and system for providing a cognitive virtual health and life insurance customer service representative

Inventors: Luis Silvestre · Seth Cohen

Assignee: PATTY, LLC (Deerfield Beach, FL)App. No. 18/112,861
US 11,651,439GrantFiled July 31, 2020Granted May 16, 2023

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

Assignee: PATTY, LLC (Deerfield Beach, FL)App. No. 16/945,082
US 11,645,720GrantFiled August 3, 2020Granted May 9, 2023

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

Assignee: PATTY, LLC (Deerfield Beach, FL)App. No. 16/983,862
US 11,636,509GrantFiled July 31, 2020Granted April 25, 2023

Self-optimizing, multi-channel, cognitive digital health and life insurance rate quoting, comparison shopping and enrollment system and method

Inventors: Luis Silvestre · Seth Cohen

Assignee: PATTY, LLC (Deerfield Beach, FL)App. No. 16/945,294
US 11,605,134GrantFiled August 3, 2020Granted March 14, 2023

Self-optimizing, multi-channel, cognitive virtual benefits product field underwriter and customer service representative

Inventors: Luis Silvestre · Seth Cohen

Assignee: PATTY, LLC (Deerfield Beach, FL)App. No. 16/983,895
How We Think

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.

Who We Work With

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 Us
Mid-market companies
Private-equity portfolio companies
Regulated enterprises
Companies with aging proprietary platforms
Organizations attempting their first serious AI implementation
Organizations drowning in manual processes
Companies with expensive legacy development teams
Companies whose technology has outgrown its original architecture

AI strategy without implementation becomes PowerPoint.
Software development without strategy becomes technical debt.

We deliver strategy and implementation together, as one team.