Portfolio chief executive officer at ESW Capital and senior vice president of AI at Totogi, where he buys traditional services companies and rebuilds them as AI-first operations. Betting big on agentic AI and context-compounding over massive capital raises, Michael unpacks what going zero-to-one actually looks like in the real world.
Michael treats artificial intelligence as an operational overhaul rather than a feature layer. By taking legacy services businesses, gutting their cost structures and rewiring them around agentic workflows, he targets profit margins that traditional operators view as impossible.
His focus centers on replacing bloated capital raises with fast context-compounding and ontology architectures. Enterprise leaders and founders get an unvarnished playbook for modernizing legacy software, driving true operational adoption and building companies that run AI at their core.
If you’re still slapping AI onto legacy software like a coat of paint, head to Michael’s talk to see how rewiring your entire operation creates margins competitors can't match.