Executive intelligence — on the box
Everything you’ve ever been told. One question away.
Stanos is an executive intelligence appliance. It sits in your office, reads what you’ve already accumulated — every meeting you’ve recorded, your email, calendar, and documents — and answers in plain language, with citations. Nothing leaves the box.
Illustrative example — fictional names and companies
You’ve been in ten thousand meetings. You’ve read a hundred thousand emails. You remember perhaps one percent, and the one percent you need is never the one percent you have.
Your meeting recorder sends you a summary and forgets the rest. Search finds documents. Neither one answers a question.
The only thing that has ever solved this is a chief of staff with a perfect memory. They don’t exist, and if they did, they’d leave.
What it does
Four things it already does, before you sit down.
The pre-meeting brief
Quarterly review
Who’s in the room
- Eleanor WhitfieldChair, Whitfield Capital
Last interaction: board call 14 May — pressed on Q3 timeline.
Open thread: revised pricing terms.
- James MarshManaging Partner
Last interaction: email 2 Jun — flagged Larkspur dependency.
Open thread: seat at the term-sheet review.
- Priya AnandCFO, Whitfield Capital
Last interaction: call 28 May — questions on carry provisions.
Open thread: side-letter language.
What was last agreed
- Q3 review moved to 22 July, scope limited to Larkspur and carry.Board call · 14 May
- Pricing floor held at 2.4%; revisit after Larkspur closes.Email · J. Marsh · 2 Jun
Open items
- Side-letter language for Priya Anand (requested 28 May, not drafted).
- Marsh’s revised Larkspur term sheet arrived 7:40 this morning — not yet reviewed.
One thing to watch
Marsh will raise the carry waterfall again. You conceded on the board call; he’ll expect it on paper.
Illustrative example — fictional names and companies
Prepared automatically from your own records. Waiting in your inbox before you’ve had coffee.
Grounded answers
Ask in plain language. Get an answer with receipts. Every specific — every number, every date, every name — is checked against the original record. When it can’t be found in your records, it says so instead of guessing.
That includes every recorded meeting — the full transcript, not the summary. Ask what someone actually said in April, and get the words, cited to the minute.
What did we commit to on the Larkspur pricing?
Answer
You agreed to hold the floor at 2.4% pending the Larkspur valuation reviewMeeting transcript · 9 Apr · 14:32and committed in writing to the revised split on the 11th, with a caveat that it closes before quarter-endEmail thread · ‘Larkspur terms’ · 11 Apr.
Every figure and date verified against the source before it reached you.
Illustrative example — fictional names and companies
Project view
Larkspur
31 records- Meeting3 Feb
Board dinner — first mention of Larkspur opportunity.
source - Document9 Apr
Valuation memo v3 — Larkspur pricing model, reviewed by Marsh.
source - Email11 Apr
‘Larkspur terms’ — written commitment, quarter-end caveat.
source - Meeting14 May
Board call — Q3 scope limited to Larkspur and carry provisions.
source - Email2 Jun
Marsh to Whitfield — flagged Larkspur dependency on timeline.
source - Meeting22 Jul
Term sheet revised — floor held at 2.4%, split to 70/30.
source
Everything. Not the top ten.
Illustrative example — fictional names and companies
Timeline
First mention
Board dinner
3 FebValuation memo
Reviewed by Marsh
9 AprTerms committed
Email thread
11 AprBoard call
Scope set
14 MayLatest
Term sheet revised
22 JulEach point opens the record it came from.
Illustrative example — fictional names and companies
Nothing leaves the box.
Your office. Your hardware. Your records.
It is a dedicated machine, in your office, on your network. Not a cloud service.
Questions are answered on the machine itself. Nothing is sent anywhere to be processed.
We maintain it. We cannot read it. The people who service the appliance have no ability to query your records — enforced by the system, not by policy.
No third-party remote-control software. Ever.
Every answer is checked against the source before you see it, and every interaction is logged. You can see the log. So can your counsel.
These are demonstrated, not promised. Ask us to show you.
For people whose information cannot be exposed.
- Public figures and former officials.
- Board members, family offices, and principals of private firms.
- Anyone whose email would be a headline.
Your staff can be granted access to what they need and nothing else. You see every question anyone asks.
Your chief of staff can search every meeting you’ve recorded — and only those.
Stanos is delivered to a small number of executives at any one time. Each appliance is installed, configured, and maintained by hand.
How it arrives
Three steps. None of them rush you.
- 1
A private conversation about what you have and what you need.
- 2
We build and install the appliance, connect your existing sources, and prove it works on your own history — before you rely on it.
- 3
It runs. We keep it running. You ask it things.
You change nothing about how you work. It reads what’s already there.
A chief of staff with perfect recall would cost you a quarter of a million dollars a year and still forget things. Stanos is a fraction of that, and it doesn’t leave.
Request a conversation
A short conversation. By invitation.
We take on a small number of executives at any one time. Tell us who you are and what you carry. If there’s a fit, we’ll arrange a private call — not a demo, not a deck.
Delivered by
Central CTO — a fractional chief technology officer practice.
Write to us directly. We read every one.
One address, one person on the other end.
Request a conversationReplies come from a person, not a system.