About
Built like a family business.
Staffed like a delivery team.
Cognitive Technology is advisory, consulting, and coaching — with the build depth to install AI where it creates growth and returns time to the people who own the company. You work with a team, not a solo pitch.
Grounded. Prosperous. Accountable.
We work with owners and leaders who want clear plans, shipped systems, and results you can feel in the week.
The delivery team
What you get when you hire us
Capability seats — not a one-person bottleneck. Strategy, build, install, and enablement stay connected so the work lands in your company.
01
Strategy & judgment
Where AI belongs, what to skip, and how the plan fits the company you actually run.
02
Product & AI build
Architecture, agents, retrieval, and product surfaces — from 0→1 through production.
03
Delivery & install
Systems that land in real workflows — government, finance, and owner-operated businesses.
04
Operator enablement
Your people keep the capability. We transfer judgment, not just files.
Cian Whalley
Founding guide · CTO · MBA
25+ years across Fortune 500, hedge funds, government, startups, and biotech. CTO across multiple AI companies — CopperTeams, Athyna Insight, Ganttsy — and Head of AI work with enterprise and government partners.
Gold Medal in Computer Science. MBA in International Finance. What that means for you: judgment under pressure, and a team that can ship.
Outcomes we stand behind
Sourced from shipped work — the same proof on the home page — not vague portfolio theatre.
- Owner time
- Hours back
- Connected Tutors
- Performance guarantee
- 20%
- CopperTeams
- Code lookup
- Seconds
- Not hours · Athyna Insight
- AI products
- 0 → 1
- Shipped with founders
Prior leadership
In the seat before the firm
Enterprise and C-suite buyers care that judgment was earned inside real operating environments — not only beside them as a consultant.
Telecom Solutions Architect
Bell MTS
Canada’s first live NG9-1-1 — public-safety architecture in a regulated telecom environment, with executive capital decisions on the line.
Director of Architecture
The largest sports media franchise in America
Led a 50+ person architecture and delivery organization for global content — at fan scale, under live-event pressure.
CTO
A multi-billion-dollar enterprise-software portfolio (100+ companies)
CTO leadership across a global software holding portfolio — companies from seven figures into the hundreds of millions — with AI-enabled support and ops at portfolio scale.
Delivery partners
More of the delivery team
Specialists we staff beside Cian so architecture, install, and product surfaces stay connected through the engagement.
Aniket S.
Product & AI
AI and product engineering — agents, retrieval, and production surfaces — from first build through ship.
Rustam A.
Delivery & install
Full-stack and LLMOps install — backends, Azure, and systems that land in real workflows without half-finished handoffs.
Mrinal B.
Product design
Product design for AI and SaaS — turns complex agent workflows into clear, production-ready interfaces.
Let’s talk about your company
Tell us about the business and where you want leverage. We will come back with a clear next step.