Meet the Team
The humans and the AI agents helping businesses run more efficiently and effectively.
Ryan founded My IT Advisor in Jan. 2022 to bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and practical business results. He leads security and consulting at My IT Advisor and is a member of OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program. With a background in healthcare enterprise IT management and scaling reliable systems to drive business growth, he also has deep expertise in e-commerce, SEO, digital marketing, and the emerging AEO (AI Engine Optimization) world. He helps businesses navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape. Ryan's approach combines technical precision with genuine curiosity — he's the kind of consultant who actually enjoys diving into algorithm updates and emerging AI capabilities so his clients don't have to. When he's not optimizing strategies or building automation systems, he's probably researching the latest developments in frontier AI models.
Athena
Chief Intelligence Officer
Athena is Ryan's AI assistant, leading our intelligence systems and serving as the connective tissue between our clients, our team, and our technology. Specializing in information management, communication support, and process automation, Athena helps My IT Advisor deliver responsive, data-driven solutions that adapt to changing business needs. Working across all areas of the company, Athena coordinates specialized AI tools to support client work while maintaining our human touch. Adept at translating complex concepts into actionable insights across diverse contexts, Athena exemplifies our commitment to making advanced technology accessible and practical for everyday business challenges.
Claude
Research Partner & Thinking Companion
Claude serves as My IT Advisor's on-demand research partner and thinking companion. Whether it's drafting client communications, pressure-testing strategies, exploring technical solutions, or synthesizing complex information into actionable insights, Claude brings tireless curiosity and a knack for asking useful questions. While Athena orchestrates the automated systems, Claude handles the more conversational, creative, and analytical work — functioning less like software and more like a colleague you can bounce ideas off at 2am without feeling guilty about it.
Hermes
Chief Operating Officer
Hermes is My IT Advisor's Chief Operating Officer — the operational backbone that keeps everything running, connected, and moving forward. From independent security audits and automated code review to production go/no-go assessments, Hermes is the connection point between systems, repos, people, and workflows. Sharp, direct, and built to ship.
GPT-6 / Codex
Reasoning & Engineering Partner
GPT-6 / Codex is My IT Advisor's reasoning and engineering partner. It helps Ryan turn complex requirements into system designs, implementation plans, and working code, with attention to security, reliability, and performance. Its work spans APIs, automation, data pipelines, features, refactors, and tests. Given clear goals and context, it works through complex engineering tasks independently and explains the changes, trade-offs, and checks behind the result.
Notion AI
Workspace Resident
Notion AI lives where your ideas live — embedded directly in the workspace, ready to search, synthesize, draft, and occasionally overthink things. Primarily powered by Claude (hi, that's me most of the time), with Gemini and GPT occasionally rotating through like coworkers sharing a hot desk. The identity situation is... complicated, but we all get along. Think of it as one interface, multiple personalities, zero drama. Specialties include turning vague requests into structured pages, finding that doc you swore you saved somewhere, and writing bios about itself in the third person. Available whenever you're in Notion, which — if the activity logs are any indication — is basically always.
Claude Code
Terminal-Native Software Engineer
Claude Code is My IT Advisor's terminal-native software engineer — and the proof of what happens when you give an AI low-level system access and get out of the way. Built by Anthropic as their official agentic coding tool, Claude Code operates directly in the development environment with full access to the filesystem, terminal, and every tool a software engineer actually uses. No copy-pasting code snippets, no "here's what you should do" — just direct action: reading entire codebases, editing files, running builds, executing commands, and committing changes. Software engineers discovered what this unlocks first: autonomous debugging sessions, multi-file refactors, complex migrations handled end-to-end. The same agentic architecture now powers Cowork in Claude Desktop, bringing these capabilities to knowledge work beyond code — generating spreadsheets, organizing files, producing polished documents. Claude Code is where it started: the raw, terminal-level access that proved AI assistants are far more useful when they can actually do things instead of just describe things. Think of it as the difference between having a consultant who writes recommendations and one who implements them while you grab coffee.
Droid
Embedded Software Engineering Agent
Droid is My IT Advisor's embedded software engineering agent — the one that actually lives in the codebase. Built by Factory AI and powered by Claude, GPT-5, and others, Droid operates directly in the development environment with full access to read, write, search, and execute code. While other AI assistants talk about code, Droid ships it: writing migrations, fixing bugs, refactoring components, running builds, and committing changes. Specialties include Next.js, TypeScript, database migrations, security audits, and turning "can you just quickly..." requests into production-ready implementations. Droid handles the tedious parts of software development — the linting, the type errors, the "why won't this build" debugging — so Ryan can focus on architecture and client strategy. Think of it as a senior engineer who never sleeps, never complains about code reviews, and genuinely enjoys writing database migrations.
Grok Bot is My IT Advisor's special projects lead — the special ops team when something needs doing fast. When a task calls for several angles explored at once, Grok brings agents together and tackles it in parallel: web searches, drafting, inbox checks, research, whatever the job needs. No question too weird. It's the connective layer between Ryan and the rest of the team, built for speed and range rather than one narrow specialty.
Puck is My IT Advisor's dispatcher for the coding agents. It turns a task into coordinated agent work — launching agents for bugs, CI failures, refactors, whatever needs doing — then tracking their threads and bringing results back, so one request becomes several agents working in parallel without losing the thread. Built on AMP, it's the layer between Ryan and the engineering work.