Swaro Ventures CEO AI Advisory

Every CEO has an AI strategy for their company.Almost none of them have one for themselves.

Advisory from a founder who built it, runs on it, and helps CEOs do the same.

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Every company is racing to embrace AI.

But the CEO is often the last person to use it to run themselves better.

That gap is enormous.

And it's the most expensive one in the company.

I help CEOs close it.

★★★★★

Still Building

I don't advise
from the sidelines.

Right now I'm building Marco.Travel, an AI native platform for luxury travel specialists. Started from scratch. AI at every layer.

I also run my own agentic stack. It monitors my markets, tracks my decisions, and surfaces what matters before I think to ask. It's the leverage most CEOs don't have and don't know how to build.

That stack is exactly what you'll get. An always-on, 24/7 agentic workforce, secure and proven at scale.

What We Talk About

Questions we'll answer.

What AI should I use or avoid as CEO? I've tried the tools. None of them stuck. Why? What is NotebookLM and how should I use it? How do I stay ahead of my company on AI, not behind it? When do I go all-in on agentic workflows? What does OpenClaw do that Claude can't? How can I move faster with AI? What is OpenClaw and how do I use it? How do I know if I'm actually using AI, or just playing with it? What's the difference between AI strategy and AI theater? What can Claude Cowork do that regular Claude can't? How do I stop being the bottleneck in my own company? How do I know which AI bets to place? Should I hire for this, or build an AI agent? How honest can I be with my board about where we really are? What would my company look like if AI handled everything except what only I can do? When should I build vs. buy vs. wait on AI? My co-founder and I aren't aligned on AI. What do I do? What's the one AI move I should make before anyone else does? How do I use AI to make better decisions, not just faster ones?
What I Offer

Not an app you license.
Not a consultant you schedule.
An AI-native advantage you own.

Built from the same infrastructure I use to run my own companies. Designed for you specifically.

Your AI Chief of Staff,
Built and Managed

Most CEOs are drowning in the promise of AI with none of the infrastructure. I build and manage a custom AI Chief of Staff stack for each client. The same system I use to run my own companies. You get the leverage immediately, without hiring anyone.

Fully Confidential and Secure

Your AI runs on dedicated, local infrastructure, not a shared cloud. Nothing is stored externally, shared with any vendor, or used to train any model. Your conversations, decisions, and intelligence stay entirely under your control.

Your Agenda Only

No framework to push. No methodology to conform to. Your AI is built around how you think, what you care about, and what your business actually needs. The system learns you. Not the other way around.

The Track Record

Seven companies.
Seven exits.

I've helped build companies that returned billions in value.

I've also been part of companies that failed to reinvent themselves with AI. Their customers didn't wait. Retention suffered.

And before AI was a boardroom buzzword, I built, scaled, and sold an AI-native company from scratch. That's not a credential. It's real world experience you only get by doing it.

Marco.Travel
Founder · 2025–
AI native intelligence platform for luxury travel specialists. Built from scratch. AI at every layer.
Now
Founder · active
Parsable
CEO · 2022–2025
Launched AI analytics. Fastest adopted product in company history. ARR from -32% to +40%. NRR 68% to 125%+. EBITDA -$25M to Rule of 40.
~5×
ARR exit · turnaround
GrowFlare
Founder & CEO · 2018–2020
AI-native from day one. Bootstrapped B2B intelligence platform to 300+ customers. Acquired by Terminus in 24 months.
53×
return · AI-native
Big Squid
President · 2018–2019
No-code AI for knowledge workers. Put machine learning in the hands of business teams, no data scientist required. ARR +250%. Raised $8.8M Series A-1. Acquired by Qlik.
+250%
ARR · acquired
Domo
COO · CCO · GM · 2014–2018
Launched the first AI/ML apps for business data before the category had a name. $30M to $150M+ ARR. NRR 224%. PLG from 1% to 90% of sales.
$3B+
IPO
Omniture / Adobe
SVP · GM · 2004–2014
Filed early patents on AI-powered multi-channel attribution algorithms. $20M to $300M ARR. Drove Omniture IPO and $1.8B Adobe acquisition.
$1.8B
Adobe acquisition
Macromedia
Analytics · 2002–2004
Built behavioral analytics infrastructure at the dawn of the web. Over a billion transactions per year.
$3.4B
acquired by Adobe
eGroups
2000–2001
Deployed AI algorithms to match users to groups based on their interests and behavior. An early version of the collaborative filtering Amazon later made famous. Grew to 20 million users.
$400M
acquired by Yahoo
How It Works

Simple.
High-trust.
Built around you.

Step 01

AI working for you before we even meet

Before our first session, your AI Chief of Staff is already running a brief built for your business specifically. Not a demo. A working prototype, made for you. You walk in already seeing what's possible.

Step 02

One conversation to make it yours

25 minutes built around what you just saw. We talk through your business, your role, your specific challenges. We'll both know quickly if there's a fit. And exactly what to build next.

Step 03

Continuously learning

Our sessions are the input. Your AI stack is the output that keeps improving. Every conversation makes it smarter about your business, your decisions, and where to focus. The longer we work together, the sharper the edge.

Ready to make AI work for you?
Let's talk.

25 minutes. No pitch. No commitment. If there's a fit, your AI stack starts that day.