a15Ventures.com 01 COGNITIVE AI Build a DigitalDouble Organization Coordinated decisions with speed and confidence.
We do not replace the people who decide. We give their judgment a safe way to scale.
Digital Double Core PM Risk Compliance Ops Trader DD DD DD DD DD
a15Ventures.com 02 COGNITIVE AI The problem
AI didn’t eliminate work — it overloaded decision‑makers. TRADING Complete the order? PORTFOLIO Add to the position? RESEARCH Act on the idea? RISK Lift the limit? OPERATIONS Rebook the allocation? COMPLIANCE Clear the trade? INVESTOR RELATIONS Answer the LP? LEGAL Sign the side letter? PM 5 decisions waiting Risk 5 decisions waiting CIO 5 decisions waiting Compliance 3 decisions waiting The overload
77% say AI has added to their workload among employees using AI
39% spend more time reviewing AI-generated content among employees using AI
The cost
$250M in wages lost every year manager time on ineffective decisions, typical Fortune 500
56% have to ask someone or book a meeting to get the information they need
Manager time: McKinsey, “Decision making in the age of urgency,” 2019 (n = 1,228). Asking: Atlassian, State of Teams 2025. AI workload: Upwork Research Institute & Workplace Intelligence, “From Burnout to Balance,” 2024 (n = 2,500; U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada).
a15Ventures.com 03 COGNITIVE AI The solution
We build a TRUSTED Double for each key person. Together they collaborate to prepare and make decisions on your behalf. DD Core DD PM DD Risk DD Compliance DD Ops DD Trader
People Stay accountable. Make the calls that need them.
Doubles Calibrated on each person’s judgment.
DD Core One shared case, state and rulebook.
Enterprise systems PMS, OMS/EMS, risk, compliance, post-trade.
At 20 decision-makers: 190 possible conversations — or 20 connections to one DD Core. a15Ventures.com 04 COGNITIVE AI Value proposition
From one call after another to all at once with no delays. TODAY · ONE AFTER ANOTHER Trader PM Risk Compliance Ops ≈ 3.5 hours WITH THE CORE · ALL AT ONCE Risk DD Compliance DD Trader DD Ops DD PM one decision seconds + one call a15Ventures.com 05 COGNITIVE AI Our approach
Everyone copies your face or your knowledge. We copy your judgment. Representation Tavus · HeyGen · Synthesia
Face How you look and sound Knowledge Viven · Delphi · Glean
Files What you know and can retrieve Execution ServiceNow · Agentforce · UiPath
Agents What tools do when instructed Simulation Simile · Aaru
Crowds How populations behave Rehearsal Yoodli · Mursion · Second Nature
Practice Generic personas to rehearse with Cognitive AI Digital Double
Judgment How one specific person weighs trade-offs The trust gap
85% | 5% of enterprises are piloting AI agents. Only 5% run them in production — “it all comes down to trust.”
57% of the working day goes to coordination — calls, meetings and ping-pong messaging.
What we copy: the insight of the call behind the action
Approve Push back Escalate Wait why & how Cisco, “The Agent Trust Gap,” March 2026 (survey of senior IT and security leaders) · Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2023.
a15Ventures.com 06 COGNITIVE AI Differentiator
We calibrate your Double to make your exact judgment calls; rehearse and test it in coordination with other Doubles. 01 Practice Run real workflows in the Workflow Gym and score every artifact.
See it live at the end of the presentation 02 Simulate and test Seat the Doubles in a simulated meeting.
The Mirror
Investment Committee
New Strategy Launch
Crisis War Room 86% matched your decision
94% escalated correctly
0 policy violations
03 Set the limits Release it within your authority matrix.
CRO’s Double authority matrix
Approves orders up to $5M
Drafts broker & vendor terms
Suggests limit headroom
Escalates limit headroom
Watches allocations
Never investor disclosures
a15Ventures.com 07 COGNITIVE AI People & clients Stay accountable
PM Risk Compliance Finance Operations Clients
Your private cloud (AWS · Azure · GCP) · full data isolation · AES-256 at rest · TLS 1.3 · customer-managed keys
Digital Doubles One per person
Memory Core what they have seen
Control model limits and permissions
Reflections how they judge
Pattern tables how they process
DD Core Shared state
Decision case graph one case per decision
Workflow engine durable state and handoffs
Simulation Studio rehearse before release
Connectors Scoped and approved
Scoped read only the data its role needs
Approved write-back within its owner’s limits
Client channel client replies within set limits
Full audit trail who, what, why and when
Your systems Already in place
ERP CRM Risk Compliance Data warehouse Chat · email
Security Zero-trust by design
Identity SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning · instant revocation of access
Personal memory seen only by you and people you authorize · every access traced
Assurance third-party penetration tests · built toward SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR
Your IP zero public training · models and decision graphs stay your IP
a15Ventures.com 08 COGNITIVE AI The moat
The longer it runs, the more intelligence it compounds. 01 Policy mappings + employee IP02 Role permissions03 Workflow histories04 Connector schemas05 Approved evidence + outcomesa15Ventures.com 09 COGNITIVE AI Landscape & competition
Trusted digital collaborators, not another co-pilot or agent platform.Acts Advises Task-level · generic Decision-level · proven to judge like you Assistants & copilots Service & sales agents Agent & automation platforms Knowledge & search Population simulators Role-play & training sims Knowledge twins Decision intelligence Coaching platforms Consulting Digital Double research Learns you Consults experts Simulates workflows Governed writes One interface
Microsoft Copilot · Gemini Horizontal copilots Partial — — Partial Partial
Glean · Moveworks · Rovo Enterprise knowledge assistants — Partial — — Partial
ServiceNow · Salesforce · UiPath Workflow and agent platforms — Partial Partial Partial —
Viven · Delphi Person-shaped knowledge bots Partial Partial — — Partial
Digital Double Cognitive decision layer
Assessment based on each product’s public capabilities, October 2026.
a15Ventures.com 10 COGNITIVE AI Market size
100 interviews, 9.7M middle-top managers — a $61B market. Vertical First wave (SAM)Interviews Investment & wealth 677K 14 Management & strategy 1.08M 5 Legal first wedge 1.37M 22 Accounting & tax 1.60M 3 Insurance 1.11M 11 Executive teams 3.89M 45 6 verticals 9.72M 100
Sized bottom-up
TAM $61B SAM $30B SOM $50M US jobs, 2025: BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook (Aug 2026); ABA Profile of the Legal Profession 2025. Assumes 1 in 4 is a senior decision-maker, at $25k per Double.
a15Ventures.com 11 COGNITIVE AI Expand within one account
$250k Year 1 10 Doubles $375k Year 2 15 Doubles $500k Year 3 20 Doubles $600k Year 4 24 Doubles 2.4× account expansion · ~135% net revenue retention · $25k per Double
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Active accounts 3 16 60 165
Active Doubles 30 171 680 1,997
Company ARR $0.75M $4.3M $17.0M $50M
$50M ARR · 1,997 Doubles · 165 accounts, net of 8% churn
Gross margin
70% $17.5k gross profit
$25k price per Double
CAC per account
$150k 10 mo to pay back CAC
$250k first-year ACV
4-year gross LTV
$1.04M $150k CAC per account
7× LTV / CAC
Customer ROI
3× 9 hrs a week lost to ineffective decisions
6 hrs saved net of the base
Base case — plan assumptions, not results. Benchmark: Bessemer AI “Shooting Stars” average ~$3M → $12M → $40M → $103M ARR in years 1–4 (State of AI 2025); a16z median enterprise AI startup $2.1M ARR at month 12; enterprise NRR median ~118%, top quartile ~130%. New accounts 3 + 13 + 45 + 110, 8% of accounts lost each year (active 3 → 16 → 60 → 165). Each account: a paid PoC of 4–6 Doubles becomes a team of 10 in year 1, then 15 → 20 → 24 Doubles; net revenue retention 138% → 134% → 132%. CAC: $75k forward-deployed PoC + $75k sales and marketing = $150k; payback $150k ÷ ($250k × 70%) ≈ 10 mo. LTV: 70% × ($250k + $375k + $500k + $600k), churn-weighted = $1.04M. ROI: $250k salary at 70% of total pay (BLS) = $360k; $25k = 3 of 42 hrs; 37% of time on decisions × 58% ineffective (McKinsey) = 9 hrs; 9 − 3 = 6 hrs net, 9 ÷ 3 = 3×; at 50% recovery, 1.5×.
a15Ventures.com 12 COGNITIVE AI Team
The team behind Digital Double. Managing Partners
Engineering
Alex Stolyarik CEO · Managing Partner
25 years in Gen & Physical AI, XR and Digital Twins Leads Digital Double at Stanford’s AIRE and LYTICS labs Two exits · CEO of a $7.4B multinational at its LSE IPO Advises Stanford SAL · NSF SBIR grant · GSV Elite 200 Degrees from MIT, Stanford and Harvard Business School Lana Kara Managing Partner
Venture Partner and DeepTech executive, 15+ years $5B+ in VC and PE deals across the US and Europe Led strategy for a $2B AUM Swiss family office GP of a Digital Twin AI/SaaS venture fund Founder, SK BioScience AI Digital Twin platform Ivan Manzhetov Chief AI Engineer
Richard Popov Lead Front-End Engineer
Alexey Dyakov Senior Back-End & Voice AI Engineer
Advisors & Business Associates
Sudeep Badjatia CEO & Chief AI Architect, Valutics
Advises Fortune 100 on AI Cloud patent holder · VC advisor Cornell MBA Chinat Yu Founder, Quest2Learn
ex-Microsoft Research, gen AI Stanford LDT · MLH Top 50 CS, Johns Hopkins Li Jiang Director, Stanford AIRE Program
Teaches robotics & AI at Stanford CES Best of Innovations winner PhD, McGill Dr. Paul Kim CTO & Associate Dean, Stanford GSE
Designs learning technologies National ed-tech advisor Saudi Arabia · Rwanda · Uruguay John Mitchell Professor of CS, Stanford · HAI
ex-Vice Provost · ex-CS Chair 250+ papers · 30k+ citations PhD, MIT
a15Ventures.com 13 COGNITIVE AI GTM
Forward-deployed paid pilots. Then a firm-wide Double platform. Design partner map one high-value workflow build the first Doubles set trust + governance rules Paid PoC
Pilot team per-Double seats workflow simulator internal expert Double graph Software + services
Firm-wide layer firm-wide Double teams released workflows client- and counterparty-facing action Platform ARR
paid PoCs per-Double licences + outcome-linked fees →
a15Ventures.com 14 COGNITIVE AI The ask
Raise $5M to prove the first repeatable deployment. Seed round $5M 18 months of runway
Use of funds 45% R&D — person-model, simulator, DD Core
25% Design partners & deployment
15% Security, permissions & governance
15% Go-to-market
By month 18 What the round proves 3 paid design partners Fidelity measured on live decisions 1+ production conversion, unit costs proven Seed-ready metrics: cycle time, margin a15Ventures.com 16 COGNITIVE AI What a Double is made of
How do we build a Double? 1 Identity & values Validated personality and values instruments capture stable preferences, priorities and communication style.
Who you are 2 Expert judgment Structured interviews reconstruct real decisions: the cues, exceptions, risk trade-offs and what mattered.
How you decide 3 Memory & context Past decisions, corrections, outcomes and authorized enterprise context become a persistent, person-specific working model.
What you’ve lived 4 Fidelity benchmark Hold out unfamiliar cases; compare the Double with its host on decisions, reasons, consistency and correct escalation.
Proof, not promise Why it works · the science behind each layer
Big Five / HEXACO Stable traits predict real-world behaviour; 87% of tested links replicated. Soto, 2019 Critical Decision Method Recovers the tacit cues and trade-offs behind real expert calls. Klein, Calderwood & MacGregor, 1989
Simulacra & CoALA Memory, reflection and planning produce believable individual behaviour. Park et al., 2023 · Sumers et al., 2023 Agents of 1,052 people Interview-based agents matched people 85% as well as they matched themselves. Park et al., 2024 Appendix