Operators, not consultants.
The hard part of AI was never the technology. It's the organization.
We have led workforce transformations at global scale, from Instacart and Mozilla to RocketPower. We have been the operator in the room when AI had to stick, not the consultant who left after the deck. That experience is why Chiri exists, and why it works.
Chiri turns the way your business runs today into systems that build lasting capacity for tomorrow.
We take the work that lives in your team's habits and hard-won judgment and turn it into AI-powered systems the business owns and your people run, so the company can scale on what it does best.
Your business runs on you and your team. The judgment, the workflows, the way things actually get done. That is what got you here, and it is also the ceiling.
AI is the moment to break through it, but most owners are stuck: move too slow and you fall behind, move too fast and you bet the company on one model that is obsolete in a year. Chiri is how you make the jump without the bet.
Named for a record-setting guide.
We are inspired by the legendary mountain guide Babu Chiri Sherpa, who set the records for fastest ascent and longest time at the summit of Everest.
That is what we deliver for our clients: speed, and staying power, through the human and digital workforce convergence. Like Babu Chiri, we know the terrain, we carry the weight, and we don't leave you at base camp.
People power businesses.
AI is not a replacement strategy. It is a capacity strategy. We build AI into how your team already works, so your people can focus on the work that actually matters.
Your know-how shouldn't retire when you do.
We give your people back the work they actually want.
The business is no longer capped by any one person.
Mathew Caldwell
Co-founder & CEO
Instacart's first HR exec, VP People at Mozilla, and founded, scaled, and sold RocketPower. 25 years leading workforce transformation at hyperscale companies.
Matthew Wimberly
Co-founder & CTO
AI systems, knowledge graphs, and enterprise-grade platforms. Specializes in highly regulated environments.
Dustin Haugland
Co-founder & CSO
RocketPower co-founder with multiple exits. Brings the commercial discipline that turns good product into scalable revenue.
Nick Cote
Co-founder & CPO
Frontier-tech builder who built regulated digital-asset infrastructure. Knows how to ship complex systems under real constraints.
Jeff Baumgarten
Co-founder & COO
RocketPower co-founder. Accenture to startups. Brings the rigor that keeps a fast-moving company grounded in real outcomes.
The future of work is the convergence of human and digital workers.
Most companies can see it coming but cannot get there on their own, for three reasons:
They do not have the in-house expertise to design it.
They do not know how to set up the systems so it holds at scale.
They do not have the engineering depth internally to build it the right way.
The gap is organizational as much as technical, which is why most AI efforts stall before they ever show a result. Chiri exists to close that gap.
When AI is built into your core workflows, your team gets their time back, your know-how is captured and durable, and you can scale on the strength of what your people do best. That is the payoff. That is what we build toward.
The method, and what only we do this way.
We learn how you work, then build into it.
We do not hand you another AI tool and tell you to go figure it out. We learn how your team already works, then build agents directly into the tools you already use. You get AI without having to build it, directly in the tools your team already uses.
We come from people ops, not just engineering.
Chiri is led by a people-ops founder with 25 years leading workforce transformation at hyperscale companies. We treat AI as a change to how people work and adopt, not just software we install. Which is why it actually sticks.
We are the layer over your whole stack.
Chiri is a system of action that sits on top of the tools you already run, 2,000+ of them. We connect your systems of record and your systems of engagement and take action across all of them. You do not migrate data or rip things out.
AI comes to your team, not the other way around.
Chiri is your single system of action, so the 15 tabs nobody wants to open and the brittle glue holding your workflows together quietly become unnecessary. We meet you where you are.
We do not bet on one AI model.
We integrate with 350+ AI models with Council Mode, so you ride every advance instead of locking into one vendor. The intelligence layer keeps improving. Your systems keep getting better. You never have to re-platform to keep up.
Built for high-stakes, regulated work.
ChiriBrain gives you compliance, guardrails, and full auditability. SOC 2 in progress, HIPAA-ready, PII guardrails, full audit trails. Every request is traceable.
We build it. You own it. Chiri scales it.
Forward-deployed engineers build the foundation, your team runs it in their day-to-day work, and the Chiri Platform scales and governs it. You are never dependent on outside consultants, and never left on your own.
AI is a capacity strategy, not a headcount strategy.
We turn manual, draining work into systems your people run and the business owns. Your team gets their time back. Your know-how is captured and durable. And you can scale on the strength of what your people do best.
That is the Chiri thesis. Capacity for the team, never a substitute for it.
Work with us.
We take on a limited number of new engagements each quarter. If you are ready to make the jump, let's talk.