Hatchworks

HatchWorks was founded by Brandon Powell in 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. After generative AI and ChatGPT emerged in November 2022, the company pivoted its entire business around generative AI, retraining its teams and refocusing its offerings.

The company emphasizes business impact, client ownership of intellectual property, and practical AI adoption rather than pilots or experimentation alone.

Leadership

The leadership team includes:

• Brandon Powell — CEO and Founder
• J Schwan — Executive Chairman
• Rajeev Kapur — Board Member
• Omar Shanti — CTO
• David Blanchard — VP, Business Operations
• Andrea Miller — VP of Client Delivery
• Randall Ramirez — VP, Engineering

Community commitment

Through HatchFutures, HatchWorks is committed to alleviating poverty and creating opportunities for young and emerging talent through technology education.

• Intelligence Layer: A reasoning architecture for enterprise use cases, assembled one use case at a time.
• AI-Native Products: Products designed around AI from the beginning for a business or its customers.
• Agentic Automation: AI agents that orchestrate work end to end.
• Data Modernization: A trusted data foundation for AI systems.
• Model Fine-Tuning and Optimization: Model tuning and optimization for performance, cost, and control.
• Data Science and Machine Learning: Predictive models for forecasting, classification, and optimization.

Core services also include AI Strategy and Roadmap, AI-Powered Software Development, Data Engineering and Analytics, AI Teams and Talent, and Agentic AI Automation. HatchWorks lists RAG, GenIQ, and its AI Solution Accelerator as additional accelerators.

The company serves organizations in communications and IoT, technology, healthcare, finance, retail, private equity, and real estate.

• United States: Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas
• Costa Rica: San Jose
• Colombia: Bogota and Medellin
• Brazil: Sao Paulo

The website also lists Lima, Peru among its office locations. HatchWorks describes its delivery model as remote but connected, with aligned time zones, English fluency, and local offices on the ground.

Security and trust

HatchWorks AI has completed a SOC 2 examination. Its FAQ states that the company is SOC 2 Type 1 compliant and follows enterprise-grade security practices to protect client data and intellectual property.

Clients retain ownership of their AI roadmap, intellectual property, and outcomes.

Getting started

Organizations can start with a conversation with HatchWorks AI experts to discuss their goals and challenges and develop a tailored plan for turning AI into ROI. HatchWorks also offers AI training, including training for teams, executive AI training, AI Roadmap and ROI Workshops, and GenDD Training Workshops. Executive training is intended for leaders and does not require a technical background.

Lists Brandon, Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Lima, San Jose, and Everett as a location. Names Georgia, United States, and Atlanta as a service area. Areas beyond these are not published.

The methodology follows three stages:

1. AI Strategy — Decide: Prioritize AI opportunities, assess organizational readiness, and create a sequenced, board-ready roadmap.
2. AI-Driven Development — Build: Use certified senior practitioners and AI agents across the software development lifecycle, with quality and safety gates.
3. AI Change Management — Adopt: Govern adoption, measure usage with KPIs, manage cost and shadow AI, and connect usage to business value.

GenDD treats humans as responsible for direction, judgment, and validation; AI as responsible for execution, acceleration, and generation at scale; and context as something that accumulates over time.

How HatchWorks engages

• Forward Deployed Engineers: Senior AI strategists and builders embedded in client teams.
• Agentic AI Pods: Cross-functional pods in which AI executes while humans direct and validate.
• AI and Data Transformation Program: One accountable team working from strategy through scale.

HatchWorks brings together U.S. and nearshore engineering talent across the Americas and works in the same time zones as the clients it serves.