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Build a Digital
Double Organization

Coordinated decisions with speed and confidence.

We do not replace the people who decide.
We give their judgment a safe way to scale.

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The problem

AI didn’t eliminate work — it overloaded decision‑makers.

The overload

77%say AI has added to their workloadamong employees using AI
39%spend more time reviewing AI-generated contentamong employees using AI

The cost

$250Min wages lost every yearmanager time on ineffective decisions, typical Fortune 500
56%have to ask someone or book a meetingto get the information they need

Manager time: McKinsey, “Decision making in the age of urgency,” 2019 (n = 1,228). Asking: Atlassian, State of Teams 2025. AI workload: Upwork Research Institute & Workplace Intelligence, “From Burnout to Balance,” 2024 (n = 2,500; U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada).

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The solution

We build a TRUSTED Double for each key person. Together they collaborate to prepare and make decisions on your behalf.

PeopleStay accountable. Make the calls that need them.
DoublesCalibrated on each person’s judgment.
DD CoreOne shared case, state and rulebook.
Enterprise systemsERP, CRM, finance, HR, ticketing.
At 20 decision-makers: 190 possible conversations — or 20 connections to one DD Core.
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Our approach

Everyone copies your face or your knowledge. We copy your judgment.

RepresentationTavus · HeyGen · Synthesia
FaceHow you look and sound
KnowledgeViven · Delphi · Glean
FilesWhat you know and can retrieve
ExecutionServiceNow · Agentforce · UiPath
AgentsWhat tools do when instructed
SimulationSimile · Aaru
CrowdsHow populations behave
RehearsalYoodli · Mursion · Second Nature
PracticeGeneric personas to rehearse with
Cognitive AIDigital Double
JudgmentHow one specific person weighs trade-offs

The trust gap

85% | 5%of enterprises are piloting AI agents. Only 5% run them in production — “it all comes down to trust.”
57%of the working day goes to coordination — calls, meetings and ping-pong messaging.

What we copy: the insight of the call behind the action

Cisco, “The Agent Trust Gap,” March 2026 (survey of senior IT and security leaders) · Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2023.

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Value proposition

From one call after another to all at once with no delays.

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Personal operating layer

Your Double learns every and any other tool for you, so you don’t have to. The last AI interface you’ll ever need.

Talk to one AI, in your own words.

No prompt craft, no new interface per tool.

It operates the rest.

Your Double drives the tools you already pay for.

Consult the right expertise

The Double assembles the relevant human judgment, systems and precedent — instead of making you hunt for it.

Keep boundaries explicit

Expert Doubles expose only the knowledge, decisions and workflows the company authorizes.

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Differentiator

We calibrate your Double to make your exact judgment calls; rehearse and test it in coordination with other Doubles.

01

Practice

Run real workflows in the Workflow Gym and score every artifact.

See it live at the end of the presentation
02

Simulate and test

Seat the Doubles in a simulated meeting.

  • The Mirror
  • Executive Committee
  • New Strategy Launch
  • Crisis War Room
86%matched your decision
94%escalated correctly
0policy violations
03

Set the limits

Release it within your authority matrix.

CFO’s Doubleauthority matrix
Approvesspend up to $250k
Draftsvendor & partner terms
Suggestsbudget headroom
Escalatesbudget overruns
Watchescash forecasts
Neverboard disclosures
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What a Double is made of

How do we build a Double?

1

Identity & values

Validated personality and values instruments capture stable preferences, priorities and communication style.

Who you are
2

Expert judgment

Structured interviews reconstruct real decisions: the cues, exceptions, risk trade-offs and what mattered.

How you decide
3

Memory & context

Past decisions, corrections, outcomes and authorized enterprise context become a persistent, person-specific working model.

What you’ve lived
4

Fidelity benchmark

Hold out unfamiliar cases; compare the Double with its host on decisions, reasons, consistency and correct escalation.

Proof, not promise

Why it works · the science behind each layer

Big Five / HEXACOStable traits predict real-world behaviour; 87% of tested links replicated.Soto, 2019
Critical Decision MethodRecovers the tacit cues and trade-offs behind real expert calls.Klein, Calderwood & MacGregor, 1989
Simulacra & CoALAMemory, reflection and planning produce believable individual behaviour.Park et al., 2023 · Sumers et al., 2023
Agents of 1,052 peopleInterview-based agents matched people 85% as well as they matched themselves.Park et al., 2024
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Enterprise grade · privacy & security

DD Platform — a scalable decision layer for the enterprise.

People & clientsStay accountable
SalesLegalComplianceFinanceOperationsClients

Your private cloud (AWS · Azure · GCP) · full data isolation · AES-256 at rest · TLS 1.3 · customer-managed keys

Digital DoublesOne per person
Memory Corewhat they have seen
Control modellimits and permissions
Reflectionshow they judge
Pattern tableshow they process
DD CoreShared state
Decision case graphone case per decision
Workflow enginedurable state and handoffs
Simulation Studiorehearse before release
ConnectorsScoped and approved
Scoped readonly the data its role needs
Approved write-backwithin its owner’s limits
Client channelclient replies within set limits
Full audit trailwho, what, why and when
Your systemsAlready in place
ERPCRMRiskComplianceData warehouseChat · email
SecurityZero-trust
by design
IdentitySAML SSO and SCIM provisioning · instant revocation of access
Personal memoryseen only by you and people you authorize · every access traced
Assurancethird-party penetration tests · built toward SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR
Your IPzero public training · models and decision graphs stay your IP
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Team

The team behind Digital Double.

Managing Partners

Engineering

Alex Stolyarik

Alex Stolyarik

CEO · Managing Partner

  • 25 years in Gen & Physical AI, XR and Digital Twins
  • Leads Digital Double at Stanford’s AIRE and LYTICS labs
  • Two exits · CEO of a $7.4B multinational at its LSE IPO
  • Advises Stanford SAL · NSF SBIR grant · GSV Elite 200
  • Degrees from MIT, Stanford and Harvard Business School
Lana Kara

Lana Kara

Managing Partner

  • Venture Partner and DeepTech executive, 15+ years
  • $5B+ in VC and PE deals across the US and Europe
  • Led strategy for a $2B AUM Swiss family office
  • GP of a Digital Twin AI/SaaS venture fund
  • Founder, SK BioScience AI Digital Twin platform
Ivan Manzhetov

Ivan Manzhetov

Chief AI Engineer

Richard Popov

Richard Popov

Lead Front-End Engineer

Alexey Dyakov

Alexey Dyakov

Senior Back-End & Voice AI Engineer

Advisors & Business Associates

Sudeep Badjatia

Sudeep Badjatia

CEO & Chief AI Architect, Valutics

  • Advises Fortune 100 on AI
  • Cloud patent holder · VC advisor
  • Cornell MBA
Chinat Yu

Chinat Yu

Founder, Quest2Learn

  • ex-Microsoft Research, gen AI
  • Stanford LDT · MLH Top 50
  • CS, Johns Hopkins
Li Jiang

Li Jiang

Director, Stanford AIRE Program

  • Teaches robotics & AI at Stanford
  • CES Best of Innovations winner
  • PhD, McGill
Dr. Paul Kim

Dr. Paul Kim

CTO & Associate Dean, Stanford GSE

  • Designs learning technologies
  • National ed-tech advisor
  • Saudi Arabia · Rwanda · Uruguay
John Mitchell

John Mitchell

Professor of CS, Stanford · HAI

  • ex-Vice Provost · ex-CS Chair
  • 250+ papers · 30k+ citations
  • PhD, MIT
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Next step

The Proof of Concept (PoC), in three numbers. Measured four ways.

Duration8 weeksMap, shadow, act with approval, measure — two weeks each.
Scope1 workflowPricing exceptions, budget approvals, contract terms or escalations.
People4–6 DoublesThe leaders who own that workflow’s decisions today.

What we measure

Decision latency

days → hours on delegated decision types

Expert hours returned

time back for higher-value work, per team

Meetings removed

decision meetings that never need to happen

% decisions delegated

share released to act with sign-off or on its own

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Human judgment, turned into software.

We do not replace the people who decide.
We give their judgment a safe way to scale.

See it live → itsbettertogether.io

Alex Stolyarik · CEO · alexsto@stanford.edu