We back one conviction: in applied AI, deep vertical expertise — not general-purpose tooling — is what wins. Chattan founds, capitalizes, and operates AI companies that each master a single industry end to end — its workflow, its data, its customers.
Foundation models are becoming a commodity layer. We believe the enduring winners won't be the most general — they'll be the most expert. Durable advantage accrues to companies with deep command of one industry: its workflows, its data, its customers. Vertical expertise is the moat — and the reason these companies win.
Each portfolio company is AI-native from the first line of code and built by people who know one operationally heavy industry cold. We prove the playbook in a single vertical, then repeat it — expertise compounding into advantage, company after company.
A growing family of operating companies. The first is live and in-market; the next are under development.
An AI-native operations platform for waste haulers and portable-sanitation operators. A voice agent answers every call, books the job, quotes the price, and hands a fully-built operation — dispatch, routing, billing, and a driver app — to the operator. The technology runs the back office so the owner can run the business.
The next operationally-heavy industry where AI can own the workflow. In active development.
We're evaluating adjacent field-service and regulated-operations markets that fit the playbook.
Building an AI-native company in a hard, unglamorous industry? We back and operate alongside founders who know their market cold.
We don't write a check and wait. We build the company, run best-in-class operations, and stay hands-on through scale.
We start each company from a clear conviction about a vertical — not from a founder in search of a market. Product, brand, and go-to-market are engineered together from day one.
Chattan carries the operating load — engineering standards, infrastructure, security, and the AI platform — so each company's team can focus entirely on customers and their market.
Every company inherits a common backbone — model orchestration, voice and vision pipelines, data governance, and hard-won security posture — compounding what the last one learned.
We build companies to own and operate, not to flip. Patient capital and a long horizon let each business earn durable, category-defining scale.
Chattan is a Utah-based holding company building a portfolio of vertical AI application businesses. We pair a builder's instinct with a long-term owner's patience — starting with real operators in real industries, and letting the technology prove itself in the field before we scale it.
We're looking for AI-driven operators with deep expertise in a single industry — people who know a vertical cold and believe technology can transform it. If that's you, let's talk. Partners of our companies are welcome too.