Zach Lendon
Co-Founder & CTO
Turns complex requirements into architecture, agentic workflows, production software, and proprietary IP without losing the original intent.
Let’s talk
Start with one workflow. We’ll help you find the right first step.
We capture how your experts actually decide — the rules, exceptions and approvals — and build governed AI workflows your team can run, check and stop. Start with one workflow and get a clear decision in weeks.
Tell us where important work is waiting on a few people, breaking between teams, or about to be handed to an AI system. A senior member of the PRAXSO team will reply within one business day, usually to suggest a short call. You don’t need a specification, or a commitment beyond a first engagement.
Start the conversation.
You do not need a finished specification.
Email us
Reach out directly at hello@praxso.ai
We typically reply within one business day.
What happens after you get in touch
A reply within one business day
From a senior member of the PRAXSO team.
A short call
About the workflow, the people involved, your constraints and timing. No preparation needed.
A written scope, if there’s a fit
The first engagement, what it produces, the fee and a start date. If there isn’t a fit, we’ll say so.
Your first reviewable artifact
In the first week of the engagement.
What makes a good fit
Who works with PRAXSO.
We work best with organizations that rely on deep expertise, are tackling consequential problems, and can give us time with the people who do the work.
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Expert-driven work
You rely on specialized expertise that’s hard to capture, coordinate, or scale.
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Meaningful problems
The work is complex, high-stakes, and worth getting right.
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Openness to a different approach
You’re curious about AI-native ways of working, beyond off-the-shelf tools.
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A defined first step
You want a useful result in weeks, with the option — not the obligation — to continue.
We’re not the right choice for off-the-shelf chatbot setup, staff augmentation without a defined outcome, or work where no one can give us access to the people and systems involved.
What PRAXSO does
How PRAXSO works.
We move from understanding to impact through a structured, collaborative process.
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Extract
Understand how the work actually happens.
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Resolve
Remove ambiguity before it becomes software.
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Structure
Turn understanding into executable requirements.
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Build
Put that understanding directly into development.
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Test & Harden
Prove it works under real conditions.
Reference
Key facts.
- Company name
- PRAXSO
- Website
- https://praxso.ai
- Co-founder
- Zach Lendon, Co-Founder & CTO
- Core offering
- We capture how your experts actually decide — the rules, exceptions and approvals — and build governed AI workflows your team can run, check and stop. Start with one workflow and get a clear decision in weeks.
- Engagements
- Workflow Assessment (typically 2–3 weeks); Governed Pilot (typically 4–6 weeks); delivery and platform work for scoped problems
- Method
- Extract, Resolve, Structure, Build, Test & Harden
- Selected work
- Induct — U.S. Marine Corps · Recruiting; AMA — Education · AI Fluency; Digital Twin — Management Consulting · Expertise at Scale
- Communication
- hello@praxso.ai. We typically reply within one business day.
- Contract terms
- Reading the site, following a link, or sending the contact form is not an engagement, a proposal, or a promise of work. A project starts only if we agree to it in writing.
Leadership
The team behind PRAXSO.
The right people, across the whole translation.
Vanessa Edwards
CFO & COO
Captures how the work actually happens, resolves ambiguity, and keeps operational and financial reality intact through final delivery.
Eric Edwards
CSO
Assesses new opportunities for fit, aligns the desired outcome, and guides clients from initial problem through successful onboarding.
Michael Beckwith
Recruiting SME
Brings deep recruiting experience to Induct, translating frontline realities into a precise source of truth grounded in how recruiters work.
Nathan Stahlman
Strategic Advisor · Logistics & Training
Serial entrepreneur and senior executive with an enterprise exit to a leading fleet risk and compliance company, bringing operator perspective to logistics, training, and technology strategy.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
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What kinds of problems are a good fit for PRAXSO?
The ones where the work is difficult to explain before it is difficult to build.
Complex workflows. Entrenched systems. Critical decisions. Large amounts of institutional knowledge. Processes full of rules, exceptions, and judgment that conventional software has struggled to capture.
We start by understanding that complexity and determining what should actually be built.
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How is PRAXSO different from a traditional software development firm or systems integrator?
We focus on the part of software development where the most information is usually lost: the translation between the people who know the work and the people—or agents—building the system.
Our proprietary methodology captures how the work actually happens, resolves ambiguity, and converts that understanding into a structured source of truth that human engineers and AI agents can build and validate against. That lets us use modern agentic development for what it is exceptionally good at—speed and leverage—without asking it to guess what the user meant.
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How do you manage the risk of using AI in important systems?
By deciding deliberately where AI should—and should not—have authority.
We design permissions, human decision points, auditability, testing, and failure handling around the risk of the specific system. High-consequence decisions can remain human-controlled while agents handle the work they can perform safely and reliably. Before production, we test and harden against the requirements, edge cases, failure modes, security needs, and operational conditions.
Read how we think about authority.
04
How do you capture requirements from users who do not know how to specify software?
We do not ask end users to become software architects. We ask them to show us the work.
We capture the workflows, decisions, rules, exceptions, dependencies, workarounds, and institutional knowledge behind what they do. We then resolve contradictions and missing decisions with the people who understand the work before turning that knowledge into executable requirements. The result is a source of truth the user can recognize and the development system can act on.
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What does a first engagement with PRAXSO look like?
Bring us the problem. You do not need to bring us a finished specification.
Most clients start with a Workflow Assessment, typically two to three weeks, or — when the workflow and its owner are already clear — a Governed Pilot, typically four to six weeks. Both have a fixed scope and fee, and both end with a decision backed by evidence: build, re-scope, expand, or stop. If the problem is already well defined, we can go straight to build.
From there, engineers and agents build against the same source of truth, working software gets in front of users early, and what we learn is fed back into the requirements — through validation, testing, and hardening until the system is ready for the environment it is intended to serve.
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Do we have to commit to a long engagement?
No. Each first engagement stands on its own.
You keep everything it produces: the workflow map, the decision log, the source of truth, and the recommendation. You can continue with us, take the work elsewhere, or stop — and if the right answer is to stop, we will say so.
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What does it cost, and what do you need from our team?
A fixed fee, agreed before work starts, and time with the people who know the work.
We give you a range on the first call and an exact fee in a short written scope. From your side, we need one owner who can make decisions, time with the people who do the work — mostly in the first week — real examples, and someone who can approve access. Every engagement is shaped to your team, so we agree the time it takes with you up front.
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Do you work with consulting firms?
Yes — inside your engagement, alongside your team.
If your clients are asking for AI work and you need senior delivery capacity to meet that demand, we can work as part of your team. You keep the client relationship; we bring the method, the engineering, and the controls.
From complexityto impact.
Bring us the problem. You do not need to bring us a finished specification.