5HC

5HC

AI instruction for executives.

5HC is a team of experts led by Brandon Adams.Work with an experienced practitioner on your actual strategy, workflow and implementation problems.

Client firms

Clients include founders, CEOs, managing partners and CFOs.

We work with executives at hedge funds, private equity firms, public companies and founder-led businesses.

  • RTW Investments
  • Silversmith Capital Partners

  • Genesis Companies

  • FS Food Group

  • LexisNexis Risk Solutions

  • NielsenIQ
  • Upperline Health

  • Findell Capital Management

  • Coherent Research

  • Irving Investors

  • Royalty Investments Fund

"As a tech CEO, I already had a handle on the basics, but Kory is an exceptional instructor who elevated my skills to an advanced level. His positive attitude and willingness to do the hard work made him an invaluable partner in refining my technical proficiency."

Lee Rivas, former CEO R1
Kory Kilpatrick

The team

Team lead

Brandon Adams

Founder of 5HC; economic and financial analysis with LLMs

  • Alex Wilkinson

    AI strategist and Founder/CIO of Algorithmic Capital

  • Damian Galarza

    Fractional CTO; AI agent architecture and developer tooling

  • Joshua Bretag

    Growth specialist; AI deployments for fast-moving companies

  • Kory Kilpatrick

    AI consultant; software engineer and product leader since 2015

  • Lev Milman

    AI systems for high-stakes decision environments

  • Lucas Greenwell

    Software engineer and PM bridging AI to health, ed-tech, and defense

  • Yaozhong Kang

    Engineer-founder; AI systems for revenue operations at scale

Background

Brandon Adams

  • Brandon Adams taught at Harvard and the University of Miami.
  • Nine years at Harvard, three years at the University of Miami.
  • He received the Derek Bok Center's Certificate of Distinction in Teaching at Harvard in 2010.
  • He was the primary research assistant for Michael Lewis' The Big Short.
  • He holds Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect – Professional credential.

The working session

  • Choose your expert.

  • Book a working session.

  • Work on the actual problem.

No retainer required.

Many sessions produce working artifacts: prompts, working documents and next-step notes.

The work you create in sessions belongs to you.

Every delivered session is scored against a teaching rubric.

Ideas you can inspect

A Genius with Amnesia.

A book, forthcoming from Five Hour Press.

216 pages

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