Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Justin Hinote
Business outcomes first.
Strategy and go to market, and the person making sure every build maps to a business outcome you actually care about.
Connect with Justin on LinkedIn ↗About CoMavenAI
Built around people.
Engineered for real work.
We are an embedded AI engineering team. We work alongside your people to build, run, and improve custom systems inside your operation.
CoMavenAINorth Andover, MACharlotte, NCA StratusPointIT company
Three parts. One way of working.
Our name is a working philosophy.
Explore each part to see what it means inside an engagement.
01 / Collaboration
With you, from the start.
Your people know the exceptions, the workarounds, and what a good outcome looks like. We bring engineering into that conversation and build with them.
In practice: discovery with the people who do the work, shared requirements, and your team in the loop.
02 / Practical expertise
Know what is worth building.
A maven is a trusted expert. For us, that means understanding the problem well enough to recommend a custom system, an existing tool, a process change, or nothing yet.
In practice: tradeoffs in plain English, a measurable baseline, and clear recommendations.
03 / Applied AI
Make it useful in the operation.
Custom agents, connected workflows, and applications inside the tools you already run. The system handles repeatable work; people stay responsible for judgment.
In practice: systems in production, clear ownership, and ongoing engineering as the work changes.
The people behind CoMavenAI
Know who you are building with.
Business context, operational discipline, engineering, and a good first conversation.
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Matt O'Shields
Built to keep working.
Owns operations and product strategy. The discipline that turns a good idea into a system that still works six months later.
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Chief Technology Officer
Matt Joyce
Engineering for the real world.
Engineering leadership. Years of building and running production systems at scale, now pointed at the tedious work inside your business.
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Head of Growth
Alex Schreiner
It starts with listening.
The listener. Runs discovery and makes sure we understand your operation before anyone builds anything. No pressure, no pitch.
Connect with Alex on LinkedIn ↗Our story
The same builders.
A broader foundation.
- The beginning / Charlotte
Queen City AI
Custom AI systems for businesses that needed software to fit the way they worked. Engineers embedded with the customer, requirements in plain English, and real systems in production.
- 2026 / A shared foundation
CoMavenAI
We became CoMavenAI with the backing of StratusPointIT, bringing embedded AI engineering together with its experience in infrastructure, security, and IT operations. Explore the relationship →
- The work ahead
Build. Run. Improve.
Help a team make the first useful change. Get the system working inside its operation. Continue with a clear engineering scope as its needs grow.
Governance & experience
Our board.
Experience building technology companies and running the systems businesses depend on.
Eric Correnti
Co-Founder & Executive ChairmanCEO of StratusPointIT. Two decades of running secure, mission critical IT for businesses nationwide.
Rick Reidy
Board MemberChairman and Principal Partner of StratusPointIT, investor, and advisor.
Joe Alsop
Board MemberSoftware company founder and longtime advisor to growing technology businesses.
What you can expect
A few things we take seriously.
01
Listen before building.
The people doing the work help define the problem and the requirements.
02
Make the tradeoffs clear.
You should understand the recommendation, the scope, and what success will look like.
03
Stay close to the result.
Measure what changes in production. Agree on who runs the system and what comes next.
Start with your operation
Tell us about the work.
A workflow that takes too long. A system that does not fit. An idea you want to pressure-test. Let's find a useful first step.
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