You know what AI could do for your business. We know how to build it.
Blue Run Group builds and deploys working systems for private equity funds and the companies they own. Value now, and a foundation for what comes next.
The Thesis
The opportunity is real. The gap is execution.
Private equity funds can describe what AI should do for their portfolio. Few have the capacity to do it. Blue Run is built around finishing: flexible systems, value-focused workflows, and collaborative engagements that get you up to speed fast.
- Practical over ambitious.
- Inside existing systems. Integration before replacement. Deliberate architecture.
- Measured, not asserted. Every result names its baseline.
Team
Patrick Martin
Founder
Patrick Martin's background spans applied AI and software engineering, with a focus on systems where reliability and judgment matter. He has built production AI systems in the options trading industry and earlier led engineering teams on physics R&D in the defense industry.
Blue Run Group
Options trading
Production AI systems in an environment where being wrong is expensive and immediate.
Defense physics R&D
Led engineering teams on research programmes with hard reliability constraints.
Team
Dory Habing
AI Engineer
Dory Habing's background is in applied software engineering, with a focus on systems where correctness and speed are non-negotiable. She has built production software at a leading options trading and technology firm, working in an environment where every line of code carried real financial stakes.
Blue Run Group
Options Trading
Software engineering at a leading options trading and technology firm.
University of Illinois Chicago
Computer science, with a focus on AI systems.
Team
Joseph Schafer
AI Engineer
Joseph Schafer's background is in full-stack engineering, with nearly a decade building production software for startups across edtech and logistics. He has shipped and maintained sophisticated systems, and now applies that engineering discipline to AI implementation.
Blue Run Group
Edtech
Senior full-stack developer at a leading online education platform, building and scaling the product over four years.
Logistics software
Full-stack development at a logistics software startup, delivering digital shop systems for freight forwarders.
How We Operate
Four commitments we'll be held to.
Start small enough to say no to
A two-week assessment, not a six-figure commitment. If there's nothing worth building, that's the finding and we'll say so.
Build inside what you already run
We work with the systems a portfolio company already pays for. Replacement is a last resort, not an opening move.
Document ourselves out of the job
If you can't operate it without us, we built it wrong. Handover is a deliverable, not a favour.
Name the baseline
Every claim about a result states what it was measured against and over what period. No unsourced multiples.
Let's talk and discover what's possible.
Tell us where the work piles up, and we'll tell you what's worth automating first.
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