Chaos Holdings, LLC  ·  AI Leadership

AI, done right.Win on time.

We help boards deploy AI with judgment, and help growing companies put it to work. The common thread is time: the firms that compress it, win.

What we do

Two mandates. One standard: done right.

Whether you set direction from the boardroom or run the operation, the core work is the same. Move fast, without moving recklessly.

Mandate 01 · Board & C-Suite

Lead the AI decision. Don't inherit it.

We work with directors and executives to set AI strategy, governance, and guardrails, so your organization can commit with confidence. Govern first. Then throttle up.

  • AI strategy and board-level education
  • Governance, risk, and guardrails
  • Deployment roadmap and sequencing
Mandate 02 · Owner & Operator

Put AI and automation to work.

For growing companies, we implement AI and intelligent automation (IA) inside the workflows you already run, to grow revenue, cut cost, and accelerate operations.

  • Intelligent automation of real workflows
  • Revenue growth and cost-reduction levers
  • Hands-on build and implementation
The time advantage

Speed is the last real advantage.

The idea is not new. In Competing Against Time, George Stalk and Thomas Hout argued that the companies which compress time outgrow and out-earn the ones that don't. AI is the largest time lever ever built. Done right, it collapses the distance between a decision and its result. Done wrong, it adds a new kind of drag.

Read the case for time →
SpeedFaster cycles compound into growth and margin.
DragUngoverned AI adds latency, risk, and rework.
Done rightGovernance first, then velocity.
Free assessment

How well is your organization using AI and IA?

Take the AI & IA Scorecard: a short, structured self-assessment across strategy, governance, data, automation, adoption, and ROI. Get a score and a tailored set of next moves. IA is intelligent automation.

A new book from Chaos Holdings
If Done Right

The AI Governance Framework for Regulated Financial Firms

Brandon Veldman, CFA  ·  Stefan Whitwell, CFA, CIPM
The book

The proof of how we think.

Our field guide to governing AI where the stakes are highest. Written for the people who actually carry the risk, it is rigorous, practical, and built for the week you are actually having, not the week your policy manual assumes.

The proof, in software

We built TIME to show the framework works.

TIME is enterprise-grade software that puts our framework into practice for modern RIAs: faster marketing review, stronger audit files, protected time. It is the one app we set out to build, and it exists as living proof of what done right looks like.

We are not app developers by trade. TIME is an illustration of the framework, not a service we sell.

TIME
Enterprise application
Visit timewrit.com →
The Team

Two operators. One standard.

BV
CEO & Co-founder

Brandon Veldman, CFA

AI and data strategy leader. Held a lead role at Palantir commercializing its AI technology, and traded on Wall Street. Builds AI and automation systems for growing firms.

SW
Co-founder

Stefan Whitwell, CFA, CIPM

Three decades across Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse First Boston, and firms of his own. Wharton. Founder of Whitwell & Co. Focused, above all, on doing this right.

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Bring us the hard AI question.

Whether it belongs in the boardroom or on the shop floor, we will tell you the truth about what it takes to do it right.