About
A product company that stays in the operating room.
PraxisIQ builds FuseIQ and operates it alongside the companies that use it. We are not a research lab and not a traditional consultancy: the product carries the operating record, and our specialists make sure the record reflects reality.
Advice expired; software alone drifted.
Companies were buying AI strategy that went stale on delivery, and AI tooling that nobody operated. Both approaches left the same gap: no durable record of what was prioritized, adopted, produced, and governed.
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The record has to live in software
Anything held in decks and spreadsheets decays between reviews. FuseIQ is the system of record so the operating view survives the engagement. - 02
The record has to be maintained by people
Software does not create ownership or resolve cross-functional priority. Forward-deployed specialists do that work with the customer's leadership. - 03
Results have to be verifiable
We agree measurement with the customer's finance function before build so what we report can be defended without us in the room.
Leadership and advisors.
John Shaw
Co-Founder & CEO
Kat Norwood
Co-Founder & COO
Mitch Comardo
Chief Technology Officer
Advisors
John LarsonChief AI Officer & Advisor
Hal JaggerInvestor & GTM Advisor
Operating principles.
- Production over proof
- An engagement is not successful because a pilot impressed people. It is successful when a workflow runs, has an owner, and is used.
- Human authority is retained
- Automation prepares decisions. People commit financial and contractual change, and that approval is recorded.
- Say what is program work
- We are explicit about what the platform does today versus what our specialists deliver, on the platform page and in every proposal.
- Sequence against capacity
- We do not commit a portfolio a customer has no ability to deliver. Ranking is done against real capacity.
- Leave capability behind
- Champions, owners, runbooks, and evaluation practice stay with the customer when a stage ends.
- Publish only what is verified
- Customer results are published with consent and with a measurement method the customer agreed to.
Mid-market operators and their sponsors.
Our work concentrates in technology-enabled and operationally complex mid-market businesses, and with the private equity firms that own them.
For executive teams, start with Companies. For sponsors and operating partners, start with Private Equity. For service firms who want to deliver the program, see MSP Partners.
FuseIQ
Talk with the team that would run the work.
Your first session is held by the people responsible for shaping and leading the engagement, not by a separate sales function.