I didn’t start out in tech. I started out in the Army.

Discipline, adaptability, resilience, those weren’t just nice-to-haves. They were survival skills. Later, I found many of those same principles echoed in the world of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, where I’ve trained for over 16 years. On the mat, just like in life and business, success is about pattern recognition, persistence, and learning to navigate pressure with purpose.

Over the last two decades, I’ve built companies, led partnerships, and helped organizations scale. But no matter where I went, I kept running into the same problem: partner teams were operating in the dark.

We had the passion. We had the potential. But we didn’t have the visibility, the language, or the tools to prove our impact.

I spent years trying to bridge that gap — translating gut instinct into boardroom buy-in. Eventually, I realized: we weren’t going to move partnerships forward with spreadsheets and wishful thinking. We needed something new. A new operating system for partnerships. A new way to define value, measure it, and scale it.

That’s why I built QuarqAI, an AI partnership intelligence platform designed to measure and prove partnership value.

This isn’t just another platform. It’s a belief system backed by data, built to transform how ecosystems work, grow, and win together. QuarqAI helps companies move from “I think this partner is valuable” to “Here’s exactly how and why.” It gives you the metrics to justify your decisions, the tools to make better ones, and the clarity to invest with confidence. We built this AI partnership intelligence platform for leaders and departments navigating cross-functional misalignment and murky value.

My mission is simple:

To help partnerships deliver on their full potential.

To bring light to what’s been hidden.

To empower the builders, the bridge-makers, and the teams who know partnerships are the future.

At QuarqAI, we’re not just innovating, we’re advocating. For ecosystems, for alignment, and for value that goes both ways. This is the company I wish I had when I was fighting for proof, progress, and a seat at the table.

Now it’s yours.

Let’s build the future of partnerships together.

– Chris

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