About
Simple isn’t easy. That’s where we come in.
The Advisory
Built around one idea. Make the complex simple.
Aplodex is a technology and AI advisory built around one idea: make the complex simple. We design, build, and hand off technology that works. We don’t run it for you as a managed service. You get work you can point to and use.
We focus on wealth management and financial services because that’s where our experience is. We know the platforms, the regulations, and the workflows. We work with you to see how decisions get made inside your firm, then decide on the best course of action together. That context is the difference between advice that sounds right and advice that applies.
The Story
The trouble at most firms is process, not technology.
The people who understand the business don’t always know the technology. The people who know the technology don’t always understand the business. That gap is where bad decisions get made, where good tools get wasted, and where firms end up paying for complexity they didn’t need.
Aplodex exists to close that gap, and it was founded around doing it right.
You get working software that simplifies or automates the problem.
The Person
My experience is what I’m here to put to work for you.
Before Aplodex, I was offered a VP of AI Innovations role. I’d just left a more boutique firm where I served as Director of Technology Architecture and AI. Sole technology leader at CTO scope, maintaining the full tech stack across networking, cybersecurity, hardware, CRM, custodial, reporting, trading, AI, and communication. Standing between the old job and the new, I realized the impact I wanted, on the industry, not one firm at a time, wasn’t going to come from either seat.
Owning the whole stack gives you something narrower roles don’t. A view of where the wires connect, and where they should. Combine that with industry knowledge, a sense of how things ought to work, and a real read on the firm’s culture, and you start designing tools other people don’t think to build. At that firm it produced internal AI and agentic systems pushing right up to the edge of autonomy.
That’s the experience I’m bringing here, and it includes the part most builders miss. The people who build a thing are almost never the people who’ll use it. If you want adoption, real change management, not a kickoff slide, the firm has to be in the build with you. Their ideas, their workflow, their language, combined with the technical expertise. That’s what ships something the firm owns rather than tolerates. That’s where the ROI shows up.
| Role | Scope |
|---|---|
| VP of AI Innovations (position offered) | Technology strategy, AI roadmap, cross-functional leadership |
| Director of Technology Architecture and AI | Full-stack build, CTO scope, sole technology leader |
| Director of Information Technology | Infrastructure, security, end-to-end IT operations |
The Track Record
This work ran in production.
It ran under compliance scrutiny, inside live wealth management firms. After a full cybersecurity rebuild, the firm’s next SEC exam had zero findings. I’ve designed 120+ REST API integrations across wealth management platforms, built 178 Lightning Web Components in Salesforce FSC, and built and deployed 98+ Salesforce Flows in production. I’ve managed 15+ production platforms in financial services and deployed 9 AI tools into production workflows.
I’ve spoken at the T3 and Salesforce conferences. My work draws on NIST CSF, NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, and SEC and FINRA requirements, and on Salesforce FSC and the Pershing, Fidelity, and Schwab platforms.
The Approach
We build it with you and leave you with something that runs without us.
Every engagement starts with understanding your world, your people, your processes, your existing technology, how it all fits together, and where it doesn’t. We bring our expertise into that picture, not the other way around.
We analyze, strategize, design, build, implement, train, integrate, and automate whatever it takes to get you there. When we’re done, you own it. Your team can maintain it. It doesn’t require us to keep working.
The goal every time is a finished product you own.
Ready to work with someone who’s done it?