Built by practitioners, not theorists.
Together, we track long-term trajectories, not fleeting headlines. We formed SandBern because we kept watching organizations make the same mistakes—and we knew the fix was not better technology. It was better practice.
Mike Sandborn
Co-Founder
AI engineer and Computer Science Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University (2024), with research funded by DARPA and the NSF focused on improving software security with AI.
His work spans AI-assisted reverse engineering and malware analysis, production agent systems for real-world decision workflows, and consulting engagements that turn AI prototypes into dependable operating capability.
Alex Bernstein
Co-Founder
AI strategist who translates emerging model capabilities into measurable organizational leverage. Alex has built and shipped production AI agents across healthcare, finance, hospitality, and education—and learned the most from the ones that nearly failed.
He specializes in the gap between what a model can do in isolation and what it can do inside a real company with real workflows and real resistance to change—and that is exactly what he designs around.
Let's talk about what you're building.
We respond with a diagnostic assessment, a concrete system design, and a structured 90-day training and implementation plan.
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