A formation lab. Built by two.
XenTeck is a father-son AI services company operating across two LLCs. We sell outcomes, not technology — and we build the technology ourselves.
XenTeck started the way most real companies start — at a kitchen table, after the day job, with a clear view of a problem nobody else was solving correctly.
The shape of the AI services market is increasingly familiar: someone wires up a model, brands it, charges a recurring fee. The model gets better, the moat gets thinner, and the customer ends up renting commodity capability at premium prices.
We took a different read. As the cost of building with AI approaches zero, the only durable thing left to sell is outcomes — with accountability. Not access to tools. Not promises. Results, on a timeline, with skin in the game.
That’s the operating thesis. Every product we ship is built around it.
Underneath the services arm sits a separate research effort — a formation lab studying how cognitive systems can be built around character rather than constrained by it. Some of that work is years from public; some of it shows up in PI Shield G6 today.
Both arms feed each other. The services pay for the research. The research compounds the services.
The team.
Shaun Carriveau
Strategy, architecture, and the research arm. Shaun directs XenTeck’s product portfolio and leads the formation-lab work on anchored cognitive systems.
David “DJ” Carriveau
Build and operations. DJ runs hands-on engineering across every product line — from PI G6 deployment infrastructure to the Enoch video pipeline.
Principles.
Sell outcomes, not technology.
Anyone can wire up a model. We commit to the result and put our compensation on it. If we don't deliver, you don't pay.
Research compounds services.
The work that lives in the lab today shapes the products we ship next year. We aren't a wrapper company.
Architecture over filters.
We don't patch unsafe behavior at the perimeter. We design systems whose values are constitutive.
Speak plainly.
No "AI-powered." No "revolutionary." We describe what something does and what happens when you use it.
Stay hands-on.
Both founders write code. Both founders talk to customers. We do not scale through abstraction layers we wouldn't use ourselves.
Father and son.
XenTeck is family-owned and operated. That shapes how we make decisions, who we hire, and how long we plan to be here.