It’s time to level up.
With decades of experience at the forefront of software technology, our mission is to ensure that your business isn’t just keeping up—it’s setting the pace.
Whether you’re diving into AI, fine-tuning your digital transformation, or fortifying your cybersecurity defenses, we’ll help you unlock opportunities and drive growth.
Services
Technology Strategy
Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Cloud • Emerging Technologies
Will the technology strategy you employ today serve the needs of your business in the coming decade? Staying in the lead requires continual innovation, and that means expanding beyond the familiar technologies and tactics that got you to this point.
Your goals are complex and nuanced, and the technology landscape is full of subtle pitfalls and opportunities. We'll help you formulate the right questions, and we'll help you find powerful answers that meet your needs today and open up possibilities for the future.
We bring to the table in-depth experience building critical cloud platforms and revenue-generating AI initiatives at top tech firms including Google and Amazon Web Services. Starting from your unique needs and business context, we'll help you compose a winning strategy that synthesizes your strengths and differentiators with new insights and best-of-the-best practices.
Objective Evaluation
Are you concerned that an overdue IT project or software development effort may be in worse shape than it appears? Have acquisitions left you with overlapping software platforms and incompatible tech stacks? Are internal technical leaders giving conflicting information? An independent, objective outside evaluation will empower you to effect precise, decisive change—or to confidently stay the course.
We perform comprehensive, top-to-bottom evaluation of platform stacks, codebases, development teams, and processes. It's important to cut through the subjective impressions that can build up around a project over time. That's why we focus first on discovering ground truth by going back to the fundamentals, like reading the code and reviewing production metrics. When prudent, we combine this hard data with interviews of selected leaders and individual contributors to embed these facts within historical context. We'll present you with specific, actionable recommendations and alternatives, backed up by a detailed report of our observations and analyses.
On-Demand Technical Leadership
The largest pure technology companies can hire and maintain stables of exceptionally talented, experienced senior technical leaders, so they don't need to look outside when an extraordinary project or challenge arises. Most of us, though, don't have the luxury of recruiting and retaining sufficient full-time staff at that level. So when a critical project with special challenges arises, you need a pinch hitter: someone who can hit the ground running and uplift your team for the duration. We may have just the expertise you need.
Solutions
Artificial Intelligence
An earth-shaking AI revolution is underway, and we've barely scratched the surface of what's possible. At Recursive Insight, we believe that adopting AI in 2024 is like adopting personal computers in 1981. It's a game-changer if applied wisely, or a costly distraction if not.
We love AI, and we also love real, measurable business value. We'll help you find the perfect pairing for your business.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is literally a matter of life and death in our increasingly interconnected digital/physical economy. Cyber threats keep increasing in sophistication and frequency, and there's no one-size-fits-all defense. Many teams can skillfully and efficiently build platforms and applications. But making those systems defensible demands uncompromising attention to detail and a very specific set of skills. That's us in a nutshell.
Cloud & Distributed Systems
You don't have to be a "hyperscaler" to benefit from lessons honed at Google and AWS. Thoughtfully designed distributed & cloud architectures make for happier customers, smoother operations, and remarkable agility.
How can we help?
We'd love to hear about the key technology challenges and opportunities that you're facing.
Our next step will be to schedule a free follow-up conversation. We'll listen to your unique situation, share any immediate observations, and identify the most promising ways to help you win.
About Us
Christopher Hendrie
Founder, Chief Technologist
With a rich professional background that spans world-class Big Tech (Google, AWS), growth-stage startups, and consulting, Christopher brings a unique blend of technical expertise and strategic leadership to the table. He founded Recursive Insight in order to distill and deliver particular high-value force-multiplier skills: locating new paths forward, applying cross-domain insights, inspiring excellence, and slicing through deeply technical Gordian knots. He loves hard problems (the thornier the better), transformational leadership, and winning as a team.
Christopher has been delighted by the resurgence in Artificial Intelligence. He first encountered neural networks back in the '90s when he coded one from scratch to play Rock/Paper/Scissors while learning from its opponent in real time. Since that time he's made key contributions to everything from massive-scale (and massively profitable) predictive models to domain-specific automated reasoning tools, before recently returning to deep learning at Behavox and Recursive Insight. He believes that we've barely scratched the surface: wondrous days lie ahead.