I closed 632 loans before I automated a single one.
Twelve years inside capital markets, by hand, before any of it was a system. Now I build the AI that operators, lenders, and the banks that finance them actually run, in the verticals where I've already done the work.
Six seats, one through-line: operations that outlive the operator.
Iron Rock Consulting
A diagnostic consultancy for real estate operators. Capital when the deal needs debt, production AI when the operation is the bottleneck.
Enter the firm →Akrithos
Enterprise AI implementation. Full internal development team: engineers, data scientists, and agentic builders for enterprise operations.
akrithos.com →AI Agency Group
CoreBrain & JT1 AI. 72 countries, 102 global partners.
The programs →M7A PE Group
Business buy side. Founder-friendly acquisitions.
Start a conversation →still running
2014 to 2019
architecture built as SVP
review at Iron Rock · as of July 2026
Every build outlasted the construction.
The first institutional build opened at the University of Pittsburgh in 2008: a Physician Assistant program proposed, modeled, and walked through accreditation by an undergraduate. It still runs today. Same pattern from medicine to lending to AI: find the gap before others see it, build the bridge, refuse to wait for permission.
The patients change. The instruments change. The diagnostic doesn't.
EDUCATION · Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine · NUHS Joseph Janse Outstanding Graduate Award
PUBLISHED · The Private Lender · Think Realty · AAPL Book of Mentors · Trained at the Black Swan Group
The commercial work lives at the firm: deals, builds, and the Foundation Call all start at Iron Rock Consulting →
Operators recognize operators.
Documented moments from a network of founders, builders, and category-defining brands: the rooms where the work gets validated and the perspective gets sharpened.
In print, on the record.
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Private Lender Perspectives · AAPL Book of MentorsRead on Amazon →
Contributing author · October 2025 · foreword by Linda Hyde, President of AAPL -
AAPL Private LenderAll published articles →
The Contractor Vanished (But the Deal Didn't) · Sep 2025 · and other columns on lending operations -
Think RealtyRead the articles →
Why Your AI Strategy Is Probably Backwards · Mar 2026 · and other features for investors
The show, the rooms, and the guest chair.
What's Still Running
Conversations about the systems, deals, and decisions that keep producing after everyone stops paying attention.
Watch the show →On the record elsewhere
Power CEOs with Jen Gaudet · THINK Podcast with Scott Ward · Think Realty Podcast with Eddie Wilson · Landlord Survival Show with Steve Rozenberg · Trigger Points with Rob Trigg
Deal Desk Live
Borrowers and brokers, every week. How a lending product actually works, your questions answered, and you can put a deal on the table.
Save your seat →Ask Alex Anything
One open call a month. Any question: capital, a deal, AI, a system you're trying to build. No agenda, nothing to buy.
Save your seat →One hour. Your actual situation. Specific moves.
A focused 1:1 session on where the business is and where the leverage sits: sales, marketing, AI, investment real estate, starting or exiting a company. You leave with the moves to make next, not a page of notes. $500 for the hour, booked directly.
Book the hour · $500→Prefer to run it yourself? The self-serve AI programs live at alexburiak.com/programs.
The audience leaves with something to ship.
Operators, lenders, real estate investors, and teams scaling AI into real businesses. Three areas, drawn from work already done, not adjacent material I'm theorizing about.
Operations & growth strategy
What scales without breaking. Where the bottleneck is hiding before anyone in the room sees it.
Real estate & private lending
What's actually happening in the capital markets, drawn from 632 personally closed loans and seven years at the senior level of a private debt firm.
AI implementation for operators
Not the hype. What works in the first ninety days, what breaks, and what separates a working AI system from a slide deck.
Recent engagements, media, and print
- AI Agent Conference 2026 · New York Hilton Midtown · May 4-5, 2026 · Attended
- The Realm Summer Experience · Saastermind · Reno, NV · June 24-26, 2026 · Engineers presenting · host Kevin Petersen
- Power CEOs · Jen Gaudet / NowMedia · capital raising, investor psychology, AI strategy
- THINK Podcast · Scott Ward / Think Realty · AI, M&A, lending · the leverage-over-effort thesis
- Private Lender Perspectives · AAPL · October 2025 · Contributing author · foreword by Linda Hyde, President of AAPL · Read on Amazon
- Think Realty · Why Your AI Strategy Is Probably Backwards · Mar 2026
- AAPL Private Lender · The Contractor Vanished (But the Deal Didn't) · Sep 2025 · All published articles
Keynote, panel, workshop, or operator interview. In-person or virtual. Tell us the date, the audience, and what you want them to leave with. Every request is reviewed personally, reply within two business days.
Tell me what's stuck. I'll tell you what fixes it.
Thirty minutes. I take every first call personally. If we're not a fit, I'll tell you on the call. If we are, the next step is a scoping session in the right practice at Iron Rock.
Schedule the first conversation→Prefer email? [email protected] · Booking a stage instead? The speaking form is here · Not ready for any of it? Get Notes from the Deals, sent occasionally.
Notes from the deals, occasionally.
Deal math, operating systems, what's actually working in production AI, and where Alex will be next. Sent when there's something worth sending, not on a content calendar. Unsubscribe anytime.