Teams that run it, not consultants
Meet Tim Varner and Jake Krogman, plus a wider team from global banks, developer platforms and production AI. We run Splice on the methods we bring you.
Splice builds AI into the work you already do. Agents run it. Your team makes the calls that matter.
The people who build your system stay on to operate it, and we use the same methods on Splice itself. See how.
Who you'll work with
Tim Varner, Founder
A serial founder and operator with more than 20 years building technology companies. Tim co-founded Roost, took it through Y Combinator and led it to an acquisition. He has advised hundreds of founders on company formation, product, fundraising and growth.
Jake Krogman, CTO and AI Systems Architect
Jake designs the agent infrastructure behind our work and manages our GPU cluster for self-hosted AI. He has spent more than 11 years building production technology as a hands-on software and AI systems architect, including an industrial machine-learning system credited with more than $1M in first-year process savings.
Behind Tim and Jake
The wider team brings more than 75 years of combined experience at Fortune 50 companies, regulated financial institutions and startups they founded and sold:
- Financial services. Product and engineering leadership at global banks, including JPMorgan Chase, BNY Mellon and Credit Suisse: helping launch a new digital consumer bank, building large-scale experimentation, and managing about $4.5B in index-linked assets.
- Developer and data platforms. Product, engineering and technical go-to-market for developer platforms in feature management and experimentation, and in real-time analytics.
- Production AI. A customer-service AI agent for a major European airline, software for finance, healthcare and aviation, and reusable harnesses that keep agent-assisted work inside its guardrails, with human review.
- Media and consumer. Co-founding and selling a creator-media business with hundreds of millions of monthly views; work with a major film studio; a game that reached one million installs in nine days without paid acquisition.
- Company building. Founders, operators and investors, with patented technology and a two-product DeFi platform taken from concept to a working test release in about eight months.
What you get from this
Much of the early work is teaching: what prompts and skills are, and how your people write them. The same team that builds production systems has run developer education programs reaching about 400 developers, so you get both from the first session to production.
Your team learns to operate what we build, so it can carry on without us.
Meet us in a working session
Spend one focused day with us on one of your real workflows. You leave with a working prototype and a clear view of where to go next.
Credited in full against your engagement.