About Smack

Collaborative work session overhead view of six people collaborating at a rustic wooden table with coffee, papers, and a laptop
Collaborative work session overhead view of six people collaborating at a rustic wooden table with coffee, papers, and a laptop

We’re not defense tech tourists 

We’re not defense tech tourists 

We’re not defense tech tourists 

Smack is building domain-specific models for the sole purpose of delivering AI-enabled decision making for modern warfare.
Our team has decades of military leadership experience at every level. We understand the problem better than anyone, and we know exactly what our end users need to solve it.

Mission & Values

Smack’s mission is to Deliver Decision Dominance to the Department of War, our allies, and partners.
Smack’s mission is to Deliver Decision Dominance to the Department of War, our allies, and partners.

We’re here to serve
We work extremely hard every day in service of our mission and each other.

We’re here to win
There are no participation trophies in war. We’re not satisfied with anything less than winning.

We’re a culture of “And” 
The Iron Triangle is for losers. Even the laws of physics can be bent with a little motivation.

We’re here to serve
We work extremely hard every day in service of our mission and each other.

We’re here to win
There are no participation trophies in war. We’re not satisfied with anything less than winning.

We’re a culture of “And” 
The Iron Triangle is for losers. Even the laws of physics can be bent with a little motivation.

We’re here to serve
We work extremely hard every day in service of our mission and each other.

We’re here to win
There are no participation trophies in war. We’re not satisfied with anything less than winning.

We’re a culture of “And” 
The Iron Triangle is for losers. Even the laws of physics can be bent with a little motivation.

The Smack Team

The Smack Team

The mad scientists and engineers delivering Decision Dominance to the DoW.
The mad scientists and engineers delivering Decision Dominance to the DoW.
Andy Markoff

Founder & CEO

Clint Alanis

COO & Co-Founder

Dan Gould

Head of Strategy & Co-Founder

Frank Bantell

VP of Technology

Chris Scrapper

VP of Decision Dominance

Ray Gerber

VP of Mission Success

Eli Levin

Director of Technology

John Falcone

Head of RLHF

R Philip Castagna

Head of Engineering

Candice Enriquez

Chief of Staff to the CEO

Claire Kimock

Head of Design

Greg Passmore

Chief Scientist

Greg Passmore

Chief Scientist

Danny Santos

Director of Growth Navy/USMC

Steve Keisling

Director of Growth USMC/USSOCOM

Alex Harvey

Director of Growth USAF

John Coogan

Machine Learning Engineer

Andrea Ezeobiejesi

Staff Engineer

Vincent Dang

Software Engineer

Ryan Heffernan

Software Engineer

Olivia Gerber

Data Scientist