Altair
About Altair

A consultancy built for the way
business actually works.

Altair was founded on a simple idea — that the gap between a great strategy and a working business is closed by getting three things right at once: the people doing the work, the process they follow, and the technology underneath it.

Our why

The consultancy
we wished we'd hired.

The traditional consulting model rewards complexity. Long discovery. Heavier decks. More billable hours. We grew up inside it. We've also seen what it costs the businesses on the other side.

Altair is different on purpose. We're a small team of senior operators who've spent careers inside SMB and mid-market companies — building, fixing, scaling, sometimes restarting. We know the difference between advice that sounds smart in a boardroom and advice that survives a Monday morning.

So we built a firm where strategy ships, delivery is done by the people who designed it, and AI is woven into our craft — not bolted onto our marketing. Three disciplines. One accountable team. Outcomes you can name on the wall.

The partners

Three operators.
One playbook.

Altair is led by three equal partners, each bringing a discipline the others can't fully cover alone — by design.

Partner · 01
EC

Eric Crawford

Chief Executive Officer

Operating-leader background with deep experience inside enterprise technology and AI-augmented transformation. Leads firm strategy, client engagement, and the cross-disciplinary work that makes the model hold together.

People · Strategy · GTM
Partner · 02
YB

Yhanic Braithwaite

Chief Technology Officer

Leads the technical practice — platform architecture, integration design, and the discipline of choosing simple over impressive. Responsible for how Altair's work ships, scales, and stays maintainable after we step back.

Platforms · AI · Delivery
Partner · 03
DA

David Alley

Chief Revenue Officer

Runs commercial — partner development, client relationships, and the work of finding the businesses where Altair's model creates real leverage. Background spans growth-stage operating roles and enterprise account leadership.

Revenue · Partnerships
How we operate

Six principles we
don't compromise on.

01

We sell the outcome, not the inputs.

Hours-billed is a metric for the firm. Outcomes are the metric for the business. We organize around the second one.

02

The team that designs is the team that ships.

No handoff to a delivery group you've never met. The senior people who scope the work are the same ones doing it.

03

AI is craft, not theater.

We use AI everywhere it sharpens our work, and nowhere it doesn't. We don't bill for prompts. We don't sell magic.

04

Simple beats impressive.

The right answer is usually the one your team can actually run on a Tuesday afternoon. We optimize for that.

05

We tell you when we're not the fit.

If your problem isn't ours to solve, we'll say so — and point you somewhere better. The relationship matters more than the engagement.

06

The work has to survive us.

If your team can't run what we built without us, we did it wrong. Sustain phase is engineered for our absence, not our presence.

If this sounds like your kind of partner
— let's talk.

A 30-minute conversation is usually enough to know whether we're the right fit.

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