AI & Corporate Transformation

AI that ships. Transformation that sticks.

We help enterprise and industrial companies move from AI ambition to production systems — corporate transformation strategy, custom AI products, and intelligent automation, delivered production-grade and fast.

26+

years leading enterprise transformation

100+

applications harmonized post-merger

10x

data-platform performance improvement

$0.003

blended cost per production AI query

Figures from production systems and delivered engagements.

Services

What we build for you

Six practices, one standard: everything we deliver is production-grade, tested, and operable by your team after we leave.

AI Transformation Strategy

Assessment, decision-ready roadmaps, and governance that meet the business where it is. We identify where AI actually pays back, align executives around the sequence, and put the guardrails in place so adoption survives contact with the organization.

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M&A Technology Integration

Carve-outs, divestitures, and post-merger harmonization. Application rationalization and data migration executed to protect business continuity — the deal is not done until the systems are.

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Operating Models & Governance

Process capability frameworks, delivery governance, executive decision frameworks, and change management. The operating spine that makes transformation stick after the consultants leave.

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Custom AI Products

Extraction pipelines, rubric-grounded generation, and vision models — built as real products, not notebooks. Cost-optimized model selection is part of the design, not an afterthought.

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Intelligent Automation

Document processing and back-office workflows that remove manual toil, with human-in-the-loop review where judgment still matters. Deterministic where possible, AI where it earns its keep.

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Data Platforms & SaaS

Full-stack, multi-tenant platforms with billing and observability built in from day one. Software built to be operated — monitored, tested, and ready for the long run.

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The multiplier

Reusable AI Delivery Skills

We turn the methods that work into AI skill libraries your teams keep — roadmap prioritization, resource allocation, executive presentations, document generation, quality review. Packaged as repeatable workflows any industry can run, not just software teams.

  • Intake guidance, structured prompts, templates, and review checkpoints in every skill
  • Human-in-the-loop: AI handles repeatable production, your experts keep the judgment calls
  • Applies across strategy, operations, and transformation delivery

Selected Work

Systems in production, not demos

A sample of the platforms, systems, and methods we have designed, built, and shipped. Client and product names are generalized; the substance is not.

Cruise Data Intelligence Platform

B2B subscription SaaS giving travel agents always-current cruise intelligence — live itineraries, route corridors, and ship data — with an AI assistant grounded in a purpose-built knowledge graph.

  • 76,000+ active itineraries across 16,900+ route corridors
  • Knowledge graph: 74,000+ nodes / 385,000+ edges
  • 55-tool AI assistant at ~$0.003/query via tri-stage cost optimization
Next.jsPostgreSQLKnowledge graphStripe

Commission Automation Platform

Multi-tenant SaaS automating travel-agency commission reconciliation and payroll, with deterministic zero-token parsing first and AI extraction only where it pays.

  • Live in production with a real agency customer
  • ~512 AI tokens per Excel statement; entire file formats at zero token cost
  • 84+ Playwright E2E tests; all 9 financial reports audited against real data
Next.jsPrismaAI extractionPlaywright

Educator Evaluation AI

Turns appraisers' raw observation documents into complete, rubric-aligned teacher and principal evaluation reports.

  • Two state rubrics — 4 teacher domains / 16 dimensions, 5 principal domains / 20 indicators
  • 5–6 AI calls per report: concurrent domain-scoped calls plus aggregator synthesis
  • Strict evidence-citation rules; vision-extracted baseline ratings (100% dual-model agreement)
Next.jsMulti-model dispatchDOCX generation

Sports Forecasting Engine

R&D platform blending ELO/Glicko-2 ratings with six predictive signals and log-odds market priors.

  • 58.9% directional accuracy (Brier 0.244), beating the market in the 50–65% confidence zone
  • 15 sports leagues, each with a signal-aware Glicko-2 variant
  • ~1,000 automated tests; cross-LLM review methodology
PythonFastAPIReact NativeML

Real-Time Virtual Tabletop

Server-authoritative multiplayer platform for tabletop RPGs — shared 3D maps, tokens, dice, and fog-of-war synced live across every player at the table.

  • Every move server-validated, logged, and fanned out via WebSocket + Redis pub/sub
  • Five game systems (D&D 5e, CoC 7e, Savage Worlds, Shadowrun, FATE) with LLM-assisted rules import
  • Three-service architecture — REST API, WebSocket gateway, 3D client — live in production
TypeScriptWebSocketsThree.jsRedis

School Dismissal Logistics

Multi-tenant platform digitizing school pickup queues with live staff dashboards and a big-screen pickup display.

  • 600+ riders processed in ~40 minutes at peak
  • Saves staff 30–60 minutes daily
  • Subdomain-based tenancy, from 50-student pilots to district scale
FastAPIReactPostgreSQL

Restaurant & Membership Platform

Reservations, table inventory, and a members-only wine club with one-click monthly allotments.

  • Double-booking-safe reservation engine
  • Idempotent monthly allotments with photo proof-of-delivery
  • 9-tab admin console + member portal; 200-item menu synced from POS export
ReactNodePostgreSQL

Approach

How we deliver

The same disciplined cycle on every engagement — from a weekend experiment to a multi-tenant client platform.

  1. 01

    Plan

    Acceptance criteria before code. Every engagement starts with a written contract of what done means, so scope is never a surprise.

  2. 02

    Build

    A proven stack, no reinventing. We ship on boring, battle-tested technology so the risk budget goes to your problem, not our tooling.

  3. 03

    Test

    End-to-end green before merge. Automated coverage at every layer, because confidence is a feature you ship to clients.

  4. 04

    Document

    Contracts stay current. Architecture, plans, and recaps are maintained alongside the code, not reconstructed after the fact.

  5. 05

    Harden

    Soft delete, auth scoping, feature flags. The unglamorous details that separate production software from a promising prototype.

  6. 06

    Ship

    Staging to production, ops-ready. Observability, runbooks, and handover included — your team can run what we deliver.

About

Founded by an operator who has done it at scale

Alejandro Del Villar has spent more than 26 years leading large-scale digital transformation, M&A technology integration, and enterprise technology delivery across the energy, field services, and industrial sectors. He managed global delivery of industrial AI and data platforms for a Fortune 100 energy company, consolidated 19 legacy systems into a single unified SaaS platform for enterprise field operations, and led post-merger harmonization of more than 100 business applications — improving delivery efficiency by 35% in the process.

Synaptic Momentum is where that consulting-grade transformation discipline meets hands-on building. We design the operating models, decision frameworks, and governance that make change stick — and we write the code, ship the AI products, and automate the workflows ourselves. Strategy and execution, from the same team, to production standard.

Previously: SLB · Cognite · Sand Cherry Associates

  • Scrum.org PSM II
  • Scrum.org PSPO II
  • Scaled Professional Scrum
  • Vanderbilt — Generative AI for Leaders
  • Vanderbilt — Agentic AI & AI Agents for Leaders
  • BS Systems Engineering, Universidad Metropolitana

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