No-BS Consulting

About

Senior expertise, not a junior bench.

Trust drives the buy. The people who design the architecture are the people who run it.

Frank Merla, Founder and CEO

Frank Merla

Founder and CEO

Enterprise architecture, AI-enabled delivery, PDLC and SDLC design, and PMO strategy across 15-plus years in financial services and wealthtech. Designs the operating models and governance that decide how complex organizations execute at scale, and still does the work himself. PMP, CSM, CAL-E, CAL-O, CAL-T. BS in Finance, Marist College.

Samantha Hanreck, Co-Founder

Samantha Hanreck

Co-Founder

Builds the cybersecurity, compliance, and governance backbone across every engagement. Former CTO and certified AI specialist. Deep GDPR and POPIA expertise.

Binod Kumar, PhD AI Practitioner

Binod Kumar

PhD AI Practitioner

PhD in AI and Anthropic research partner. Leads a 27-person agentic engineering team. Multi-agent orchestration, vectorized memory, and AI delivery across regulated environments.

27+

engineers

A dedicated agentic engineering team led by a PhD-level AI practitioner and Anthropic research partner.

The story

Finance and technology leaders have adopted AI tools but not gained organizational leverage. Processes do not standardize across carve-outs and acquisitions. AI spend climbs and nobody can defend it. No-BS Consulting closes that gap. We embed an AI delivery layer of orchestration, memory, and governance above your existing tools, model-agnostic and deployed inside your environment. Senior delivery leadership and a credentialed engineering team. No junior bench. No vendor lock-in. No bill shock.

The No-BS Mentality

How we operate.

  • We do the work, not decks.

  • We will tell you no when no is the right answer.

  • We govern from the first commit, not the first audit.

  • We measure it, we do not promise it.

  • There is always a senior in the room.

  • We build it to be owned, no lock-in.

Talk to a founder.

Frank and Samantha respond directly. No SDR layer.