Our Team
Federal-scale experience.A different premise.
We've applied AI in federal-scale environments where the stakes are high and the work has to hold up to scrutiny. Holaxis brings that experience to complex work across fields, guided by a different premise about what applied AI should be.
The Co-Founders
Mike Collier
Co-Founder · CEOA tech entrepreneur whose career centers on bringing applied AI, product management, Agile methodologies, and human-centered design together to accelerate the delivery of scalable digital services. He most recently served as Enterprise AI Strategist at Agile Six, where he helped define the company's applied AI practice and its adoption across government programs, following earlier roles there as Agile Coach and Enterprise Product Management Coach. Before Agile Six, he was an Innovation Architect at National Government Services. Mike holds an MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology, a BBA from SUNY Oswego, and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification from Syracuse University.
Brian Derfer
Co-Founder · CTOA repeat founder with over 25 years in software and 12 years leading fully remote engineering organizations, he previously served as co-founder, CTO, and Chief AI Officer at Agile Six, where he was instrumental in building its applied-AI practice for high-stakes government systems. His current work brings together his background in cognitive anthropology (M.A., UC San Diego) and engineering to create ecosystems where people and agents collaborate on hard problems. Brian is a named inventor on three U.S. patents and has authored white papers on Agile transformation and risk management.
Why We Built Holaxis
Models produce outputs. Systems build capability.
We started Holaxis because the hardest problems need more than impressive model outputs. Models can perform extraordinary feats of cognitive strength, but by themselves they do not build lasting knowledge structures, ratchet organizational capability, or steadily improve domain expertise. They do not leave auditable traces of their reasoning, and they do not create the scaffolding that lets people and agents work together on difficult problems over time. We build those ecosystems: the workflows, checks, and evidence trails that let human expertise and machine speed compound into work that can be trusted because it is verifiable and reproducible.
The people behind Holaxis are the people you'll work with.
No account layer, no handoff. If the problem is hard enough to need us, it's hard enough for us to sit with you while we solve it.
Interested in working together? Let's talk.