About Jaxon
A Department of Defense problem, turned into AI you can prove
Jaxon was founded by Scott Cohen and Greg Harman out of their work with the Department of Defense. The team they built pairs machine learning engineers with people who have spent careers defending decisions to regulators, examiners, and inspectors general. That is why DSAIL enforces policy the way the people who own the policy actually apply it.
Our story
Built out of a real problem, not a pitch deck
Every DoD workflow Scott and Greg looked at had the same structural obstacle. Prompt tuning could lower a model's error rate, but it could never produce evidence that a particular output had followed the rules, and in adjudication and classification work that evidence is the whole job.
That work has since been funded through a Space Force Phase III SBIR, an Air Force Phase II SBIR, and Air Force TACFI, and Jaxon is awardable through Tradewinds.
The same requirement turned up in regulated commercial work, which is why decision-makers in financial services, insurance, and life sciences come to Jaxon: CTOs, data science leaders, and analytics groups who cannot ship an AI decision they are unable to stand behind.
What we build
One verification layer, three ways to use it
Neurosymbolic Engine (DSAIL®)
Turns policy into code. Provable logic aligns LLM output with the formal rules your organization already wrote.
Explore DSAIL →AI Model Validation (DEEM)
Validates AI against your own standards, not generic benchmarks. Define success, test continuously, and catch drift before it becomes a risk.
Explore DEEM →Custom Agents
Domain-specific AI agents built with structured logic and policy control from the ground up.
Explore Custom Agents →How we work
Collaboration first, roadmap second
Our culture
Collaboration is the cornerstone of how we work. We take a team-first approach, and our best ideas come out of working sessions with customers, not a whiteboard in isolation.
Looking ahead
We're expanding our product line and growing the team behind it, while holding to one measure of progress: does this make AI projects succeed more often, and does it get them there faster.
Our team
The people building it
Executive Leadership
Leadership & Business Development
Paul RestenVP, Business Development
Matthew GrazianoVP, Product & Delivery
Charles FaulknerPrincipal
Directors
Charlotte GreenDirector, Capture Management
Jose CantuDirector, Defense & Intelligence
Danitra CampbellDirector, Operations
Data Science & Engineering
Jeff WatkinsPrincipal Data Scientist
Mark JennePrincipal Data Scientist
Alan CaulkinsPrincipal ML Engineer
Yves ChampagnePrincipal Software Engineer
Richa GoyalSenior ML Engineer
Alec HoylandSenior ML Engineer
Alyse RecordSenior ML Engineer
David HenslovitzSenior ML Engineer
Joseph RivasMachine Learning Engineer
Jill AndersonMachine Learning Engineer
Federal Growth Team
Advisory board
Advisors who have run this at scale before
Former agency directors, military leadership, and industry operators who help us build Jaxon for the way their fields actually work.
Michael BrownRear Admiral (Ret.); former Director for Cybersecurity, DHS; former President, RSA Federal
David Cattler35+ years in U.S. intelligence and national security; former NATO Assistant Secretary General; former DCSA Director
James R. CluffUSAF Brigadier General (Ret.); former Joint Staff Deputy Director for Global ISR Operations
Keith DavidsCommander, Naval Special Warfare Command; former White House Military Office Director
Daniel FataFormer Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe/NATO; former VP Government Affairs, Lockheed Martin
Carla LucchinoFormer Assistant for Administration to the Secretary of the Navy; former Assistant Deputy Commandant, Marines
Wayne McCoolFormer CIA Associate Deputy Director for Analysis; senior advisor to defense, AI, and national security firms
Dawn MeyerriecksFormer leader, CIA Directorate of Science & Technology; over a decade on the NSA board
Alan ShafferFormer NATO Science & Technology Director; former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment
Dr. Starnes E. WalkerFormer CTO for Cyber, U.S. Navy; former Executive Director, Office of Naval Research
Bryan S. WareFirst presidentially appointed CISA Cyber Security Director; former CEO, Digital Sandbox and LookingGlass
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