Our Story
Built to Oracle's Standard
Most AI companies learned to build in low-stakes environments. We learned from systems where failure wasn't an option.
Oracle's Legacy
Noreen Porter earned the callsign "Oracle" from F-22 fighter pilots who trusted her AI systems with their lives at Mach 2. She founded Heuristics Inc. in 1991 and spent decades building avionics systems for Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor.
Her work set a standard: AI systems that had to work the first time, every time. Not "move fast and break things," but systems auditable enough, trustworthy enough, and reliable enough to bet your life on.
Oracle passed on January 6, 2022. Heuristiqs exists to restore that standard to commercial AI.
Experience as Advantage
The founder of Heuristiqs spent 26 years building infrastructure across telecommunications, government, financial services, and enterprise technology.
Not just "infrastructure experience," but post-breach crisis leadership. Brought in to rebuild after catastrophic failure. Operating under continuous SOC 2, SOX, PCI DSS compliance, federal consent decree, and CIS/STIG hardening.
Most AI governance companies are run by people who've never operated under regulatory consent decree. This experience is unreplicable and it's the foundation of everything we build.
Why Heuristiqs Exists
Commercial AI lacks the governance standard Oracle proved was possible. Most companies optimize for speed and scale, building in environments where "move fast and break things" is acceptable.
Heuristiqs brings defense-grade governance discipline to commercial AI, building systems to the standard that pilots would trust, before regulatory failure forces the industry to learn the expensive way.