Jim Loperfido & Neil Benedict — The Team Behind Fianna AI
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// the people who build and deploy it

Pentagon-grade AI.
Deployed for your business.

The deployment team — the people who build it and deploy it, in the seat.

01 the team // two operators, one deployment
JL

James Loperfido

CEO · GTM + Deployment Lead

15 years at the edge of where automation and money meet. First hire at Tangem — the hardware crypto-wallet unicorn — where he built GTM from zero and operated through the company's run to unicorn status. CRO at FYEO cybersecurity, in a bear market. CBDC advisor to Cambodia's retail CBDC rollout (Soramitsu). Testimony before the US Congress Blockchain Caucus on digital assets.

Outside fintech: raised and exited Solace, a top-10 US gym chain. Customer-advisor at Xaman Labs (the XRP Ledger consumer wallet) and AvrioTech. On every engagement the work is the same: find the automation lever that moves the number, and pull it.

TANGEM · hardware crypto-wallet unicorn
FYEO · $2M+ ARR, cybersecurity
SORAMITSU · Cambodia retail CBDC
US CONGRESS · Blockchain Caucus testimony
SOLACE · $3M+ raised & exited
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY · '09
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Neil Benedict

CTO · Architecture + Model Lead

Pentagon GS-15 Lead Data Scientist with active security clearance. MIT-certified AI & Big Data subject matter expert. Former enterprise AI lead at Voya Financial. Former principal data scientist at Northwestern. He builds the production AI systems that actually run at scale — not proofs of concept, not demos. Systems that move $500M+ in measurable value.

Specializations: LLM systems, RAG architecture, multi-agent orchestration, custom model training, enterprise data pipelines. He has built AI that runs on classified infrastructure. Your business's data pipeline is well within scope.

PENTAGON · GS-15 Lead Data Scientist, active clearance
MIT · AI & Big Data certification, SME
VOYA FINANCIAL · enterprise AI lead
NORTHWESTERN · principal data scientist
$500M+ value created · $100M+ cost savings
02 why it matters // the right team for this specific build

Most AI deployments fail at the last mile.
We've both lived in the last mile.

The model was never the bottleneck. It's your data, your systems, your team's reality. That's where we work.

PRODUCTION-GRADE

Built for systems that can't fail.

Neil built AI for the Pentagon. James built GTM for companies that lived and died on the number. We don't build proof-of-concepts. We build things that run Monday morning.

WE RUN THE SHOW

The architects stay in the seat.

Jim and Neil lead the deployment end-to-end and stay in the room for every decision. No project manager between you and the architects. The work shipping in your stack is signed off by the people in these bios.

SOVEREIGN BY DEFAULT

We hand over everything.

Our goal is for you not to need us. We deploy, train, document, and transfer. You own the weights, the configs, the infra. We're on retainer if you want us — not because you have to.

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