AI systems are fast. The handoffs between people aren’t.
The coordination tax
57%of the working day goes to coordinationcalls, meetings and ping-pong messaging
43%is left for the actual workcreating, not communicating
The manager’s day
40%of a manager’s time goes to their own tasksnearly all (97%) juggle doing and leading
275interruptions a dayone every two minutes
Microsoft Work Trend Index 2023: the average employee spends 57% of their time communicating (meetings, email, chat) and 43% creating — measured across Microsoft 365 users in all industries. Manager time: Gallup 2025. Interruptions: Microsoft Work Trend Index 2025.
The gap
Every kind of workflow gets an AI tool, but the decision-making coordination stays human.
What firms get today
Personal copilotsHelp the user with their own work — ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini.
In-app agentsAutomate tasks inside internal systems — CRM, OMS, ticketing.
Agent orchestrationRoutes work between agents — ServiceNow AI Agent Orchestrator, Salesforce Agentforce.
Still on you
only you understand the context
only you know who and how to ask
only you make decisions to act
Gartner, August 2025: 40% of enterprise apps will include task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from under 5% in 2025.
The problem
The pressure is building — AI overloaded decision‑makers.
The overload
77%say AI has added to their workloadamong employees using AI
39%spend more time reviewing AI-generated contentamong employees using AI
The cost
$250Min wages lost every yearmanager time on ineffective decisions, typical Fortune 500
56%have to ask someone or book a meetingto get the information they need
Manager time: McKinsey, “Decision making in the age of urgency,” 2019 (n = 1,228). Asking: Atlassian, State of Teams 2025. AI workload: Upwork Research Institute & Workplace Intelligence, “From Burnout to Balance,” 2024 (n = 2,500; U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada).
The solution
Each person trains a Double. Together they collaborate to prepare and make decisions on your behalf.
PeopleStay accountable. Make the calls that need them.
At 20 decision-makers: 190 possible conversations — or 20 connections to one DD Core.
Category
Everyone copies your face or your knowledge. We copy your judgment.
RepresentationTavus · HeyGen · Synthesia
FaceHow you look and sound
KnowledgeViven · Delphi · Glean
FilesWhat you know and can retrieve
ExecutionServiceNow · Agentforce · UiPath
AgentsWhat tools do when instructed
SimulationSimile · Aaru
CrowdsHow populations behave
RehearsalYoodli · Mursion · Second Nature
PracticeGeneric personas to rehearse with
Cognitive AIDigital Double
JudgmentHow one specific person weighs trade-offs
The trust gap
85% | 5%of major enterprises are piloting AI agents. Only 5% have moved them into production.
40%+of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by end-2027 — on cost, unclear value and weak risk controls.
Acting isn’t the hard part. Being trusted to decide is.
Cisco, March 2026 (enterprise customer survey) · Gartner, June 2025 (agentic AI project forecast).
The judgment
The judgment isn’t the task or ubiquitous AI knowledge — it’s the why and how of the decision-making.
37%of managers’ working time goes to making decisions.
McKinsey, “Decision making in the age of urgency,” 2019 (n = 1,228)
What to approve, when to push back, who to escalate to. That is judgment — and it lives in one head.
Product
A Digital Double is a persistent and evolving model of a specific real manager’s judgment behavior.
Positioning stack
Cognitive AI
Cognitive AI is AI that models how specific people reason and decide — why its host makes the call, how they weigh it, and how the room will react. It sits above copilots and agents, which generate content or take actions.
It brings four categories into one layer:
Enterprise AI assistants & agents
Human digital twins
Behavioral simulation
Governed delegation
Digital Double
A new approach to superintelligence: a persistent, governed model of one person’s working judgment that collaborates with other Doubles. It is built on three commitments:
1
Models a real personThe unit is named human judgment, not a job title.
2
Proves itself in rehearsalEvery workflow earns confidence before deployment.
3
Acts with governanceApprovals, limits, escalation and audit are product features.
Our approach
We train and test your Double to make your exact judgment calls.
Calibrate
Dual-sided model
A ~25-minute behavioral and professional interview builds your Double.
Rehearse
Workflow Gym
Your Double runs your real workflows again and again — while you correct its calls.
Test
Simulation Studio
Edge cases, pressure and hostile counterparts — every run is scored against your own call.
Release
Governed action
Once it clears your bar, it acts — with permissions, limits, escalation and a full audit trail.
Each Double learns from its host, rehearses real scenarios, and proves reliability before it earns authority.
Simulation Studio
Rehearse every call before you release it — from one workflow to strategic war games and company-wide simulation.
Investment Committee
LP Redemption Call
The Mirror
Limit Breach
New Strategy Launch
Crisis War Room
Simulation output
Matched your decision86%
Escalated correctly94%
Policy violations0
Ready gateActs with sign-off
The simulator doesn’t make AI feel safer. It generates the evidence needed to release it safely.
From the Digital Double Studio room library. Any room can be recomposed. Simulation output is illustrative.
Earned trust
It earns trust the way a new hire does.
It watches real cases, then suggests. It acts only on the decisions it has proven it calls the way you do.
Why now
Why now.
Agents can finally actTool use, computer use and open connector standards made it cheap for AI to operate real software. Action is no longer the bottleneck — trust is.
Replication is measurableInterview-based agents reproduced 1,052 people’s answers at 85% of the consistency those people show with themselves.
Tool fatigue is peakingCompanies roll out AI faster than people can learn it. The winning interface is the one nobody has to learn.
Budgets are movingEnterprise software spend reaches ~$1.47T in 2026, growing 15.5%. Budgets are shifting from more tools to software that does the work.
Park, J.S. et al., “Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People,” Stanford / arXiv, 2024 · Gartner IT spending forecast, July 2026 (software).
Efficiency
Your Double works with the DD Core and across your tools testing possible scenarios to bring you one call to make.
PM’s Doubleto the PM
Add $4M to XYZ? It would cross the 5% single-name limit by 0.4%.
Risk DD: inside the VaR budget
Compliance DD: no restrictions
AAdd $4M, escalate to the CRO
BAdd $3.2M, stay at the limit
CWait for the rebalance
You chose B in 7 of 9 similar cases
Approve B
Governance
Your delegation-of-authority matrix, made executable.
Order size
Limit headroom
Broker & vendor terms
Allocations
Investor disclosures
CIO’s Double
Approves · up to $25M
Suggests
Suggests
—
Never
Trader’s Double
Approves · up to $5M
Escalates
Approves · standard terms
Suggests
Never
PM’s Double
Approves · up to $2M
Approves · up to 2%
Drafts
Suggests
Never
COO’s Double
—
Watches
Suggests
Approves · standard splits
Drafts
CCO’s Double
—
Escalates
Approves · standard NDAs
—
Watches
Approves — acts within the limitDrafts — prepares it, a human signsSuggests — a human decidesEscalates — routes it to the ownerWatches — predicts, touches nothingNever delegated
Every limit is set by the leader it belongs to, mirrors the authority matrix your investment and risk committees already approve, and every action is logged.
Landscape & competition
Not another copilot or agent platform, but a coordinated and vetted decision-making AI core.
ServiceNow · Salesforce · UiPathWorkflow and agent platforms—PartialPartialPartial—
Viven · DelphiPerson-shaped knowledge botsPartialPartial——Partial
Digital DoubleCognitive decision layer
Assessment based on each product’s public capabilities, October 2026.
Product
Your Double has 3 jobs.
01Works with you
Personal operating layer
Ask job-specific questions, draft work, compare options, prepare decisions and reflect — without learning a new interface every time the AI stack changes.
02Consults for you
Company expertise network
Your Double can ask the authorized Doubles of top managers and specialists for context, precedent and judgment — and be borrowed by others to participate in simulation trainings.
03Acts for you
Vetted digital operator
Once your rules are tested, the Double sends, decides and represents you within explicit limits — escalating the rest and working with other Doubles through the DD Core.
01Personal operating layer
Your Double learns every and any other tool for you, so you don’t have to. The last AI interface you’ll ever need.
Talk to one AI, in your own words. No prompt craft, no new interface per tool.
It operates the rest. Your Double drives the tools you already pay for.
It decides like you — because it was calibrated on you, then proven in rehearsal.
02Consults for you
Your Double doesn’t have to know everything. It knows who does.
Ask one place“Can we add to this position today?” “What would our head trader do?” “How did we handle this before?”
Consult the right expertiseThe Double assembles the relevant human judgment, systems and precedent — instead of making you hunt for it.
Keep boundaries explicitExpert Doubles expose only the knowledge, decisions and workflows the company authorizes.
03Acts for you
Governed by design.
ConsentYou sign offand can revoke it anytime.
LimitsIt stays in boundsand asks when it can’t.
AuditEvery call is recordedwho, what, why and when.
Coordination
A central decision core for the enterprise.
The application is designed to handle the heavy loads and strict security for large-scale operations.
The moat
The moat is the company’s decision graph.
Policy mappings + personal IPLimits, exceptions and approval rules become executable objects — with departure rules for personal IP set up front.
Role permissionsThe real decision boundaries between PM, Risk, Compliance, Trading and Ops.
Workflow historiesEvery resolved case shows how this company actually coordinates.
Connector schemasEach integration maps the company’s systems into one decision model — costly to rebuild.
Approved evidence + outcomesA growing record that makes the next case faster to route and safer to act on.
Privacy & data sovereignty
Personal memory stays protected. Runs inside your boundary.
Security & encryption
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit
Third-party penetration testing
Built toward SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR
Private deployment
Your AWS, Azure or GCP tenancy
Full data isolation per customer
Customer-managed encryption keys
Identity & personal memory
SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning
Memory: you and authorized people only
Every access traced, instant revocation
Zero public training. Personal memory, decision models and graphs stay your IP — in your own cloud tenancy.
Hot
Wherever one expert’s call is the product — and the bottleneck.
Investment and asset management743K US professionals
Hedge funds and asset managers
RIAs and family offices
Investment committees
Management consulting1.08M US professionals
Strategy and operations boutiques
IT and implementation consulting
HR and change advisory
Legal1.37M US professionals
Mid-size law firms
In-house legal teams
Regulatory and compliance practices
Accounting and tax1.60M US professionals
PE-backed CPA platforms
Tax and audit review
Advisory and transaction services
Insurance126K US professionals
Commercial underwriting
MGAs and specialty carriers
Claims and reinsurance
Executive teams292K US professionals
Founder-led companies
CEO and chief of staff office
PE portfolio leadership
US headcounts: BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025 employment (management analysts; accountants and auditors; personal financial advisors + financial analysts; insurance underwriters; chief executives) · ABA Profile of the Legal Profession 2025.
Market size
Market, sized bottom-up from senior experts.
TAMSenior experts, six US verticals1.52M senior professionals × $25k per Double
SOMYear-5 ARR6,000 Doubles across about 150 firms × $25k — under 1% of SAM
BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook 2025: management analysts 1,077,100 · accountants and auditors 1,595,200 · personal financial advisors 299,400 · financial analysts 443,100 · insurance underwriters 125,600 · chief executives 291,600. ABA Profile of the Legal Profession 2025: 1,374,720 lawyers. US only.
GTM
Consulting-led Pilot and further SaaS Platform Expansion.
Phase 1
Design partner
map one high-value workflow
build the first Doubles
set trust + governance rules
Services revenue
Phase 2
Pilot team
per-Double seats
workflow simulator
internal expert Double graph
Software + services
Phase 3
Firm-wide layer
firm-wide Double teams
released workflows
client- and counterparty-facing action
Platform ARR
services-ledrecurring platform revenue →
Unit economics & returns
70% gross margin, 4.9× return for the buyer.
Vendor economics · one Double, one year, at scale
Gross profit $17.5k
Price$25,000
Inference & simulation runs−$3,000
Private hosting & storage−$1,500
Drift review & recalibration−$2,000
Support−$1,000
Gross profit$17,500
Gross margin70%
$120kfully loaded CAC, pilot included
~16 moCAC payback on the land alone
≥130%net revenue retention target
3.6×LTV / CAC on 5 Doubles
Buyer return on investment
4.9× return on the $25k license
Executive comp benchmark (VP-level)$450,000 / yr
Time on approval ping-pong (~30%)~12 hrs / wk
High-value hours restored550 hrs / Double
Leadership bandwidth value$123,750 / yr
Year 1 runs near 55% margin while calibration is hands-on; 70% is the target once rehearsal is automated.
Plan assumptions. Benchmarks: AI product gross margin, projected 52% average in 2026 (ICONIQ) · enterprise CAC payback, 18–24 months (OpenView 2023) · Radford Global Comp Database (2025) · McKinsey managerial time analysis.
Team
The team behind Digital Double.
Leadership & engineering
Alex Stolyarik
CEO · Managing Partner
25 years in Gen & Physical AI, XR and Digital Twins
Leads Digital Double at Stanford’s AIRE and LYTICS labs
Two exits · CEO of a $7.4B multinational at its LSE IPO
Advises Stanford SAL · NSF SBIR grant · GSV Elite 200
Degrees from MIT, Stanford and Harvard Business School
Engineering & Biz Dev
Ivan Manzhetov
Chief AI Engineer
Richard Popov
Lead Front-End Engineer
Alexey Dyakov
Senior Back-End & Voice AI Engineer
Lana Kara
Account & Business Development
Advisors & Business Associates
Sudeep Badjatia
CEO & Chief AI Architect, Valutics
Advises Fortune 100 on AI
Cloud patent holder · VC advisor
Cornell MBA
Chinat Yu
Founder, Quest2Learn
ex-Microsoft Research, gen AI
Stanford LDT · MLH Top 50
CS, Johns Hopkins
Li Jiang
Director, Stanford AIRE Program
Teaches robotics & AI at Stanford
CES Best of Innovations winner
PhD, McGill
Dr. Paul Kim
CTO & Associate Dean, Stanford GSE
Designs learning technologies
National ed-tech advisor
Saudi Arabia · Rwanda · Uruguay
John Mitchell
Professor of CS, Stanford · HAI
ex-Vice Provost · ex-CS Chair
250+ papers · 30k+ citations
PhD, MIT
Next step
The pilot, in three numbers. Measured four ways.
Duration8 weeksMap, shadow, act with approval, measure — two weeks each.
Scope1 workflowDiscount exceptions, vendor renewals, escalations or budget approvals.
People4–6 DoublesThe leaders who own that workflow’s decisions today.
What we measure
Decision latency
days → hours on delegated decision types
PM and analyst hours returned
time back for research and positioning, per desk
Meetings removed
decision meetings that never need to happen
% decisions delegated
share released to act with sign-off or on its own
The ask
The ask: $1.5M pre-seed, 18 months.
Platform + AI45%
Enterprise pilots25%
Security + governance15%
Go-to-market15%
3enterprise design partners with the layer live
60+leadership Doubles calibrated
1stgoverned partner exchange in production
Appendix · Architecture
Architecture.
Design ruleEvent-drivenWork starts when something happens in a company system — not when someone remembers to ask.
Design ruleHuman-in-the-loopThe decision case, not the chat, is the unit of work — and a named person signs anything outside a released class.
Design ruleAuditable by designEvery step records who decided, on what evidence and under which permission.
Appendix · Methodology
Research-backed foundations.
Critical Decision Method
Developed by Gary Klein for high-stakes fields — firefighting, critical care, aviation. Captures the cues, trade-offs and risk thresholds behind real critical incidents, not hypothetical questionnaires.
CoALA cognitive architecture
Grounds the Double in structured working memory, long-term episodic recall and policy-bound action — so authority can’t drift (Sumers et al., 2023).
Generative agents
Persistent memory, retrieval and reflection keep a simulated person coherent over time — the basis for Doubles that remember what their host has seen (Park et al., 2023).
Cognitive Task Analysis
Structured interviews and observation that surface the tacit knowledge experts can’t easily put into words — the mental models, cues and strategies behind their calls (Crandall, Klein & Hoffman, 2006).
The bottom line
Human judgment, turned into software.
Digital Double captures how a real person decides, proves that model in simulation, then works in coordination with other people’s Doubles.