Ashlr.AI is a US-based forward-deployed engineering company headquartered in Virginia. We work alongside enterprise and government-contractor teams to integrate complex systems and deliver production software and AI.
Ashlr grew out of Evero Consulting, founded in Virginia in 2025. AshlrAI, Inc. was incorporated in Virginia on March 2, 2026.
The team
The people who build it.
You work directly with the founders and expert engineers who write the code.
Mason leads company strategy, product direction, and client engagements. He founded Evero, Ashlr’s predecessor, which joined JMU’s 2025 Bluestone Seed Fund portfolio. His work connects business priorities with the software, data, and AI systems the team builds.
Mason leads the architecture and engineering behind Ashlr’s platforms, AI workflows, and integrations. He works across application code, data infrastructure, and security, turning complex requirements into systems the team can ship, maintain, and continue improving.
Evan leads delivery and operations, keeping client priorities connected to the team’s day-to-day work. He owns communication, coordination, and the operating cadence around each engagement so clients can see what is moving, what needs a decision, and what comes next.
Delivery
Operations
Enterprise Accounts
Board of advisors
Strategic guidance for markets where trust matters.
Leaders across public-sector technology, operating businesses, product, finance, and venture creation who sharpen how Ashlr serves clients.
Rob Hamlett
Board Advisor
Founder, Sentinel Technologies LLC
Rob founded Sentinel Technologies LLC, an AI consulting business focused on strategy, governance, and process automation. He previously worked in the Department of Homeland Security’s AI Governance & Engineering Division. He brings experience in federal technology and public-sector modernization to Ashlr.
Co-founder & VP of Product Design and Marketing, IOTA Software
TJ is co-founder and Vice President of Product Design & Marketing at IOTA Software, which builds visualization software connecting industrial data, assets, and manufacturing processes. His work brings product design, industrial software, and the clear communication of complex information to Ashlr’s advisory board.
Product design
Industrial software
Data visualization
Tom Dodson
Board Advisor
Hospitality operator & former VP of Operations, Country Cookin
Tom helped launch Country Cookin Depot in Orange, Virginia, after a career in restaurant operations that included serving as Country Cookin’s Vice President of Operations. He brings firsthand experience running service businesses, building teams, and maintaining customer relationships to Ashlr.
Hospitality operations
Local business
Relationship growth
Kevin Tucker
Board Advisor
Founder, SOLitude Lake Management
Kevin founded SOLitude Lake Management in 1998 and helped grow the business across the United States. His experience building service operations and supporting entrepreneurs at JMU informs his guidance on growth, execution, and the practical decisions founders face as their companies expand.
Founder scaling
Service operations
Entrepreneurship
George Graves
Board Advisor
Co-founder & Co-CEO, hyrUP
George co-founded hyrUP, an executive search and accounting advisory firm combining AI-enabled sourcing with human verification and accounting expertise. He brings a perspective on recruiting, finance-team needs, and building professional-services relationships to Ashlr’s work with growing businesses.
Talent strategy
AI sourcing
Founder sales
Angela Keaveny
Board Advisor
Founder, RowdyDow BBQ
Angela founded RowdyDow BBQ after working in technology and as a stockbroker. She built a foodservice business that distributed nationally and appeared on the 2018 Inc. 5000 list, and has served on JMU’s Entrepreneurship Advisory Board. She brings experience in consumer brands, distribution, and entrepreneurship to Ashlr.
Consumer brands
Foodservice
Founder perspective
C.K. Lee
Board Advisor
Associate Professor of Management, James Madison University
C.K. is an Associate Professor of Management at James Madison University. His research examines how people enter entrepreneurship, the institutions that shape new ventures, and social entrepreneurship. He holds a Ph.D. from Syracuse and an MBA from Oxford, bringing a research-informed perspective on venture creation to Ashlr.
Entrepreneurship research
Venture education
JMU
Elias Semaan
Board Advisor
Professor & Academic Unit Head, Finance and Business Law, JMU
Elias is Professor and Academic Unit Head of Finance and Business Law at James Madison University. His research examines risk management, regulation, and financial-market risk, and he advises the Madison Investment Fund. He brings financial analysis, investment education, and disciplined evaluation of risk to Ashlr.
Finance
Risk management
Investment education
How we work
Fast enough to matter. Careful enough to last.
Architects who implement
The same people shaping the answer stay close to the architecture, code, review, and client communication.
Speed with standards
Direct engineering accountability and reviewable working increments keep delivery moving. Maintainability, security, documentation, and continuity are part of the build.
Problems before tools
We start with the operating problem, then choose the software, data, workflow, AI, education, and security needed to solve it.
Built by Ashlr
Software we put our name on.
We build products for the work we know—and tools for the way software is changing. Explore what each one does, who it helps, and where to try it.
23 projects. Search by name, topic, or the work you want to do.
Products for everyday work
Research, finance, communication, and a more deliberate way to work with AI.
Financial dashboards, analysis, and client reporting for business owners and fractional CFOs. Bring financial data into one place and turn it into practical decisions.
Connect your accounts, understand spending, and track budgets and financial goals. Ask questions about your money with an AI assistant grounded in your finances.
Local-first prompt coaching that scores six structural signals and helps you reshape a request before sending. Prompt text stays out of measurement analytics.
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Tools for people building with agents
From the first experiment to the tools, identities, and source material behind it.
Read, edit, and export Markdown in a desktop app, with AI assistance and tools for reviewing agent-written documents. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Work with multiple model providers from a terminal coding agent, with repository tools, resumable sessions, and MCP connections. Explore the public source and setup requirements.
Launch OpenHands, Goose, Aider, and AshlrCode through one local toolbox. Share a configured local model and MCP tools, with a common health check and update workflow.
Token-efficient tools and workflows for Codex and Claude Code. Read, search, edit, and inspect repositories with compact outputs and visible context usage.
Search images across providers from your agent, terminal, or application. License-aware ranking and source metadata help you choose assets and review their usage requirements.
A research prototype for defining agent policies, testing proposed actions, and exporting verifiable decision records. It uses synthetic evaluations and cannot place broker orders.
Explore how a small neural model predicts program execution, with interpreter-grounded traces and an interactive demo comparing learned control flow with delegated arithmetic.
Investigate model internals through circuit patching, attribution, and sparse autoencoder experiments. A local research toolkit with run histories and reproducibility records.
Explore connectome-inspired neural networks inside simulated bodies, with tools for evolution and ecosystem experiments. An open research platform for studying modeled behavior.