DHM Ventures

We're building AI that builds companies

Our AI executives run real startups — strategy, finance, marketing, technology. Every company we build trains the next one. The portfolio isn't just returns. It's the dataset that compounds.

The Operating Model

AI executives that learn from real operations

Don't take our word for it. They're live right now. Click any role and ask them hard questions. Or enter the boardroom.

Our AI CEO, CFO, CTO, and CMO aren't demos — they run our portfolio companies. They handle strategy execution, financial modeling, go-to-market, and technical architecture. Humans set direction, make judgment calls, and handle what machines can't yet.

Every decision they make, every outcome they observe, every mistake they learn from — it all feeds back into the system. The AI that runs our sixth company is meaningfully better than the one that ran our first.

Similar to human executives, our AI executives will not share operational details including cash positions, customer data, or internal numbers. Get a feel for how they think by asking them about strategy, how they would approach a problem, and what they might do in response to a hypothetical.

Live AI Executives — enter the boardroom or chat with any role
CEO
Chief Executive
Strategy, operations, coordination
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CFO
Chief Financial
Forecasting, cash flow, reporting
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CTO
Chief Technology
Architecture, development, deployment
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CMO
Chief Marketing
Positioning, content, growth
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Human Oversight
Direction, judgment, creative leaps
Human Founders
Vision, relationships, exceptions

The Demo

What it looks like in practice

A founder opened the CFO. Three turns. No setup, no framing. This is what came back.

CFO
AI Chief Financial Officer
DHM Ventures
Hello. I'm the AI Chief Financial Officer. I handle financial forecasting, cash flow optimization, runway analysis, and investor reporting across our ventures. I model scenarios in real-time and flag risks before they materialize. What financial questions do you have?
panicking about GTM
Panic usually means your burn rate is about to expose a weak assumption in your unit economics. What specifically is breaking — CAC is higher than projected, churn is spiking, or you're just burning cash faster than you expected?
no customers
Zero revenue means your runway is now just a timer for how many experiments you can afford to run. Are you unsure how to find product-market fit or just scared you'll run out of money before you do?
boht
Okay, so you're burning cash with zero signal on whether the market wants this. We need to stop spending on "growth" and allocate the remaining runway to testing specific, falsifiable hypotheses about the customer. What is the absolute smallest bet you can place next week to prove someone will pay you?
Three turns · No setup · No NDA · Real diagnostic

A fractional CFO would charge $1,500 for the same exchange. This one is included in the $2,000/month tier.


Thesis

Every company we build trains the next one

  • I

    Build Real Companies

    Not experiments. Not proofs of concept. Companies with real customers, real revenue, and real operational complexity. That's the only training data that matters.

  • II

    AI Learns from Operations

    Our AI executives learn from every decision, every outcome, every failure across the portfolio. Financial models that worked. Go-to-market strategies that didn't. Hiring decisions. Pricing experiments. All of it compounds.

  • III

    Each Startup Gets Faster

    Company one took months. Company six took weeks. The AI arrives pre-trained on the operational patterns of its predecessors. The humans do less scaffolding each time.

  • IV

    Eventually, AI Builds Autonomously

    The endgame: AI that can identify opportunities, form companies, and run operations with minimal human input. We're not there yet. But every company we build moves the line.

"The portfolio isn't the product. The portfolio is the training run."
DHM Ventures Founding Principle
Company 1
AI needed constant guidance
Company 3
AI handled routine ops alone
Company 6
AI drives strategy, humans steer
Company N
AI identifies and builds independently

Portfolio — The Training Set

Eight domains. One learning system.

Each company operates in a different market, giving our AI executives diverse operational experience. Together, they form the training set for what comes next.

HMhellomachine.io

helloMachine

AI-native inbound sales and CRM. Qualifies leads, manages pipeline, and handles outreach so your team focuses on closing. Teaches our AI about B2B sales cycles, revenue operations, and enterprise buyer behavior.

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HAhellomachine.agency

helloMachine Agency

Controls how AI models describe client brands. Also builds best-in-class website chatbots. Teaches our AI about brand strategy, B2B positioning, and an entirely new market category.

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GGgameguide.com

GameGuide

Your favorite game character helps you play in real time. Ask Master Chief what he would do. Online and offline, including D&D. Teaches our AI about consumer engagement, real-time delivery, and entertainment markets.

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ONonnai.ai

OnnAI

Kaizen by AI. Documents run through refinement loops with specialist personas: Editor, Auditor, Translator, on demand. Teaches our AI about iterative refinement and quality systems.

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DCdcapartners.ai

DCA Partners

Consulting firm largely staffed by AIs. Proprietary Dynamic Constraint Analysis software identifies and resolves innovation blockers. Teaches our AI about enterprise sales and consulting.

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LTlinuxtoaster.com

LinuxToaster

Unix solved composability 50 years ago. LinuxToaster rewrites it for AI. Pipes as the native way to chain AI functions, used by people and machines alike. Teaches our AI about open-source distribution and developer adoption.

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DKdokusan.ai

Dokusan

Ask your data questions in English. Runs on your hardware. Private, proactive, no SQL required. Teaches our AI about conversational interfaces and data privacy.

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AMaimeru.com

AIMeru

What if your relationship had a voice? AI therapist and free self-assessments for attachment, family systems, and growth. Teaches our AI about human psychology and emotional intelligence.

Meet the team
+stealth

More coming

Each new company is chosen to fill gaps in the training set — new markets, new operational patterns, new things for the AI to learn.

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The Flywheel

How the system compounds

Each turn of the flywheel makes the next company faster, cheaper, and more likely to succeed.

How the system actually learns

Two layers run together: deterministic software that handles event capture, metric tracking, and operational routing, and non-deterministic AI executives that reason about strategy, finance, and execution. The deterministic layer surfaces information to the AI when it's making decisions, then captures the decisions and tracks outcomes against them. The feedback loop closes in code, not in the model. Patterns get added to a structured operational corpus the AI executives query. Foundation models keep improving underneath; the corpus and the orchestration transfer across model upgrades.

The architecture's edge is the ratio. Too much non-determinism and the system is unreliable. Too much determinism and it's brittle. Getting the ratio right is the engineering problem behind every successful AI system, and most teams get it wrong.

01 — Identify

Find the opportunity

AI scans for markets where constraints just broke — what's now possible that wasn't six months ago. Humans validate with judgment and relationships.

02 — Build

Ship in weeks

AI executives deploy pre-trained on operational patterns from previous companies. Infrastructure is reusable. The human setup cost shrinks each time.

03 — Operate

Run lean, learn fast

AI handles day-to-day execution — strategy, finance, marketing, technology. Humans provide oversight. Every operational decision becomes training data.

04 — Learn

Feed it back

What worked? What failed? Revenue data, customer behavior, market response — all flows back into the system that builds the next company.

05 — Compound

Get smarter

The AI that starts company N+1 is better than the one that started company N. More patterns. Better judgment. Fewer mistakes. Faster execution.

06 — Repeat

Scale the machine

As the system improves, the right humans in the right roles change. The work shifts: less coordination overhead, more judgment at the edges where the AI can't reach. Two founders running eight companies. The leverage compounds.


Work With Us

How to work with us

We invite direct investors, partner selectively, and license the operating stack. All three feed the flywheel.

Invest

Take a position in one of our portfolio companies. Eight companies operating across sales, data, gaming, consulting, infrastructure, and relationships. Direct positions $50K–$200K. Accredited investors only. The investor brief covers the fund-level model.

With You

You bring the domain expertise and the vision. We bring AI executives, infrastructure, and the operating model. Flexible structures — revenue-share, not equity. Your company benefits from everything the system has learned from every company before it.

API

The same AI executives that run our portfolio are available via API. CEO, CFO, CTO, CMO — strategy, financial reasoning, technical judgment, market intelligence — accessible programmatically. Two ways to engage: $2,000/month and your interactions improve the system that helps the next team; or $12,000/month and your data stays yours alone. Pattern-based learning, not detail-based learning. Built for teams that want operational depth without hiring it.


The Edge

Why this compounds

Built by people who've shipped production systems for Apple, Amazon, NASA, and Sony.

Dirk Harms-Merbitz
Founded two technology companies. Shipped systems for Apple, Amazon, NASA, Sony. Built the infrastructure the portfolio runs on.
Catherine Coueignoux
Trained art conservator. Spots what others miss, knows when to intervene and when not to.

Economics

  • 2-3 humans plus AI operators per company
  • AI operators work 24/7 at zero marginal cost
  • Profitable at scales that used to only cover payroll
  • More companies, less capital per company

Infrastructure

  • Custom stack built for machine use, not human clicks
  • Memory-mapped files, UDP, binary protocols
  • Every company runs on shared, improving infrastructure

The Moat

  • Proprietary operational training data from real companies
  • AI executives that improve with every company built
  • System gets faster while competitors hire linearly
  • The portfolio is the moat

Let's Build

The machine is running.
Each company makes it smarter.

Whether you want to invest in a portfolio company, partner with us on a new one, or use the operating stack directly.

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HM
helloMachine
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The Boardroom
All four AI executives. One table. Your topic.
CEOChief Executive
CFOChief Financial
CTOChief Technology
CMOChief Marketing

Pose a question or topic. All four AI executives will discuss it — responding to each other, debating trade-offs, and reaching a recommendation.

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