The People Behind Every ARC Engagement.
ARC Ventures runs as one team with Pacific Software Ventures - operator-level domain expertise on one side, production-scale engineering on the other. Every deployment is built and shipped by the people you meet here.
Built and Run by an Operator Who's Been on the Other Side of the Work.
Maxwell Rady
Founder · ARC
San Diego. Background spans commercial real estate, capital markets, and shipping production-grade AI agents to expert teams - not demos.
ARC exists because the same conversation keeps happening. A senior person describes a workflow that follows a rulebook. They describe the analyst hours it eats. They describe what "good" looks like - and it's specific, learnable, and consistent.
The bet behind ARC is that the right way to build this is not as a SaaS product, not as a chatbot, and not as a research demo. It's as an embedded operating partner - agents that absorb your firm's standard, run the work, and stay in production. That's what we ship.
Zed Truong
Partner at Pacific Software Ventures. Former PGIM and Voit Real Estate, he has closed $1B+ in commercial real estate transactions and underwritten $11B+ across asset classes. An active real estate investor, he brings operator-level insight into which workflows are worth automating first and which ones demand human judgment.
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Aidan Scudder
Partner at Pacific Software Ventures and a longtime custom-software builder. At Kochava, he worked on high-throughput infrastructure for Fortune 500 customers in ad tech, and co-authored physics-informed neural network research that won an NSF grant and university recognition. That mix of production-scale engineering and applied AI shapes how PSV builds for scale and reliability.
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Gedeon Baende
Partner at Pacific Software Ventures. A former Goldman Sachs engineer and AWS AI Scholar, his work on AI battery degradation models earned recognition and a feature in an AWS documentary. He brings Goldman's data-security rigor and AWS-scale reliability discipline to the infrastructure PSV's AI employees run on.
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The Conversation Is the Start. Bring One Deliverable.
A short call to walk through your workflows, data sources, and production standards. We identify where AI creates the most leverage for your firm.