Founder-led, by design.
Plabs is a senior AI practice. Engagements are scoped, designed, and delivered by the founder, with strategy and execution capacity drawn from a small set of trusted partners. No layer of juniors. Engagements don't get handed off.
Vito Mantese
A CTO and AI practitioner who has built and shipped systems across hospital operations, genomics research at Johns Hopkins, biotech economic development, Fortune 25 insurance, and caregiver technology.
The throughline is practical AI in industries where bad systems cost trust and time, not just clicks. Vito currently advises Fortune 25 platforms on enterprise AI strategy and architecture, and leads every Plabs engagement personally.
A small core, a deep network.
Spinoza Strategies
Ryan Brown, founder of Spinoza Strategies and a 15-year veteran of consulting and facilitation, co-leads the Intelligence Catalyst Workshop. Strategy facilitation, executive alignment, and change management.
Plabs-led delivery network
Plabs leads engagements with assistance from Syllogisteks, Acuity Digital, and cloud platform teams at Google and AWS: embedded engineering capacity matched to the work.
Senior contractors
A vetted bench of senior practitioners across ML, data, security, and platform, drawn in for the work that needs them.