Leadership

Two founders. Thirty years of building software, and forty years of starting and selling companies.

Drew Harris, CEO and Co-Founder, CPTO

Drew is CEO, Co-Founder, and CPTO of Expert Scale, Inc.

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He has been writing software since 1995 and working in SaaS since 2001, when he founded QuantumDelta, across startups and enterprise companies. A U.S. Air Force veteran, he was part of the teams that took FirstUp to $100M ARR and BeachBody public, and has done fractional CTO and CPTO work for dozens of growth-stage and late-stage companies.

Before that, he was an instructional designer who once turned a one-year training program into 30 days. The question behind that work, how experts actually transfer judgment and not just facts, is the core of how Apex Replicant runs its extraction interviews.

He has worked with AI since 2000, when he built intelligent web agents at PennWell — a far simpler form of the technology than today’s, and shipped in production. That long view is why every Apex Replicant answer is grounded in the expert’s own knowledge rather than generated from scratch.

Drew designed the platform itself: the three-layer security architecture, the escalation that calls in the human instead of guessing, and the protégé-generation method described in the 34 USPTO patent claims on file.

Dr. Alan Kadish, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Dr. Alan Kadish is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Expert Scale, Inc.

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He has spent 40 years starting, funding, scaling, and selling companies, from seed through acquisition, with several successful exits.

He has sat on both sides of the table: the operator raising capital and the partner writing the check. That gives him a clear read on what makes a business worth backing, and it shapes how Expert Scale, Inc. goes to market, builds partnerships, and raises money.

He also brings a deep network of funders, partners, and operators across many industries, which matters directly for our partnerships and for how we sell.

Alan owns the company’s story: how we position the category, how we talk to investors, and how we build partnerships. He is the primary contact for investor relations.

Founding Philosophy

Drew and Alan met at a turning point for both of them: Drew was prototyping the Apex Replicant extraction system, and Alan kept seeing the same failure pattern across the enterprise-AI deals he had reviewed. What they agreed on was simple, and a little uncomfortable: expert services aren’t broken because expertise is overvalued. They’re broken because the way it gets delivered hasn’t changed since the 1950s.

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Expert Scale, Inc. is a Nevada corporation. remote-first and incorporated in Nevada. Drew and Alan are the founders and serve as the executive team.