Owlstorm is a studio, and Paul is its architect: twenty-plus years of AI and machine learning, one company founded and sold, and a habit of shipping into places where failure isn’t an option.
Paul ran a business with his own money on the line. Icy Cools — founded, built from zero, its products on shelves at CVS, Walmart, Amazon, TJ Maxx, and Kroger — was acquired in 2023. Advice lands differently when the person giving it has made payroll.
As CTO of HPI International, he deployed cold-chain blood monitoring across two Chinese hospital systems — end to end, in Mandarin. When the software watches blood, “mostly working” is not a category that exists.
Through Owlstorm, that record now runs to 32+ delivered AI projects across clinical, industrial, and B2B systems.
Five years teaching applied AI at Stevens Institute of Technology — 700+ engineers and 50+ startup teams. That standard carries straight into the executive coaching room.
“If I can’t make it clear to you, that’s my failure, not yours.”
He sees the solution space before picking a path: the tradeoffs, the second-order effects, the thing that breaks in month six. Then he moves — requirements to PRD to MVP in weeks, not quarters.
ChartFlow Medical / TrendHUD (in pilot), FitChecks, and a bench of agentic systems — built in the open, in production, and current.
See the projects →“Building AI from raw mathematics is the foundation of how I think about frontier models today.”
Paul’s first machine-learning programs were written at Rutgers in C++, for mammography mass detection — no frameworks, no GPUs, just the math. Twenty years later, that’s still how he reads a model: from the mathematics up.