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The Team

Built by an Insider, Not a Vendor.

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 - AI employees that absorb your firm's standard, run the work, and stay in production. That's what we ship.

Maxwell Rady

Maxwell Rady

Founder · ARC

San Diego. Before ARC, Maxwell built automation and autonomous tools across 30+ enterprise teams at CBRE - one of the world's largest CRE firms - partnering with its Cyber Security, Global D&T, and enterprise-architecture groups to ship custom, data-safe connectors for CBRE's AI initiatives. He now builds AI employees the same way: enterprise-scale, security-first, production-grade.

Alex Padilla

Alex Padilla

CTO · ARC

San Diego. Alex started in managed services, running infrastructure across regulated client environments. He then earned his place early in CBRE's Global Digital & Technology group, the team that ran technology worldwide for the world's largest CRE firm. Working alongside enterprise architecture and cyber security, he saw that infrastructure from every angle. He now owns ARC's technical delivery end to end: architecture, security baseline, and everything that has to hold up in production.

Advisory Board

The Bar We Build Against.

Operators who have run the institutions we build for, scaled the software we build like, and financed the companies we intend to become. They pressure test what we ship, tell us where an AI employee has no business being, and hold ARC to the standard their own teams would demand.

Advisor

Ernest Rady

Founder & Chairman · Various Companies

Founded three companies across real estate, insurance, and banking. American Assets began in 1967 with a $35,000 apartment purchase and went public in 2011. ICW Group is now the largest privately held insurance carrier domiciled in California. Westcorp, the banking group he chaired for three decades, sold to Wachovia for $3.91 billion. Six decades owning and operating the asset classes our CRE workflows are built around.

Advisor

Adam Wyll

President & CEO · American Assets Trust

Runs American Assets Trust today, after two decades inside the platform as General Counsel, Chief Operating Officer, and President. He knows precisely which parts of an institutional real estate operation are worth automating and which ones still need a human signature.

Advisor

James Gunn-Wilkinson

President, COO & Co-Founder · CMX1

Built CMX1 into the quality and compliance platform running 394,000+ locations for brands including Chick-fil-A and Marriott, processing more than 40 million audits a year. Over the last two years he put agentic AI into production across every function of the business, with the governance model to match.

Advisor

Mitch Porche

Founder & Chief Strategy Officer · CMX1

Founded CMX1 in 2009 and grew it into enterprise compliance infrastructure backed by a Morgan Stanley led institutional round. Earlier he built compliance software for broker dealers, RIAs, and hedge funds. Two decades turning regulated workflows into software that holds up under audit.

Advisor

Bill Unrue

Chief Executive Officer · Ensight

Runs the platform behind life, long term care, and annuity sales for every major carrier: 400+ products, 600+ distribution partners, and more than 200,000 financial professionals. Before Ensight he spent a decade scaling Anonymizer into an enterprise security platform serving national intelligence agencies.

Advisor

Chuck Hilliard

Founder & CEO · Hilliard Advisors

Took NetZero and Demand Media public as President and CFO, the latter the first US internet IPO past a billion dollars since Google. His firm has since structured the institutional rounds behind companies like CMX1 and Rigetti. Nine years of investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch before that.

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