Sean Everett

Early life and education 

He grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, where he developed an early interest in computers and problem-solving after working with an Apple IIe in kindergarten and a Gateway 2000 computer in middle school. He began modifying computers for his own use and building internet and media products. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Actuarial Science from the University of Iowa and later completed an MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. This combination of scientific training and business education provided the foundation for his career at the intersection of capital and computing.

Early Career in Board & Management Consulting

In the early 2000s, Everett began his professional career as an Actuarial Analyst and Board Consultant. By the age of 19, he was attending Board meetings at Fortune 500 companies. He worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Watson Wyatt (later becoming wtw), advising on actuarial pension valuation, risk management, strategy, incentive design, goal setting, performance metrics, and organizational design. His client base included Fortune 1000 companies across industries and culminated in developing a growth strategy for the largest publicly traded company globally. During his time in consulting, he received the Chairman’s Award for client service out of 10,000 associates. While he maintained his practice strategizing and building technology products, in 2007, Everett deepened his focus on entrepreneurship building emerging technologies and high-growth digital products.

Developing High-Performance Computing Products in the Cloud

In 2007, Everett founded BlueStone Investments, an AI-driven investment firm. The company built a high-frequency algorithmic trading platform on an early version of Amazon Web Services, applying artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to financial markets. Everett partnered with financial engineering academic institutions, and the resulting trading system reportedly outperformed market benchmarks by 43% during its operation. BlueStone combined Everett’s mathematics, artificial intelligence, and quantitative finance background with cloud computing, demonstrating his ability to transition into fintech and strengthening his reputation for applying emerging technologies to traditional industries to generate significant returns.

Inventing Mobile & Spatial Computing Products

In 2009, while a student at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and after the iPhone app store was made available to developers, Everett founded Evolyte. It was a Chicago-based digital venture studio focused on building iPhone and iPad apps alongside high-leverage growth and distribution tactics, such as public relations, social media influencing, guerrilla marketing, and search engine optimization. One of its first initiatives, launched in 2010,  was the Evolyte Store, an e-commerce daily deals platform selling Apple devices. On Black Friday that year, Evolyte offered discounted new iPads, combining flash sales with group-buying techniques and sold out in 30 minutes. Beyond this, Evolyte created a variety of early mobile and web applications, including a group text-messaging app that predated later services such as GroupMe and WhatsApp; CONFIDE, an anonymous web chat platform; Weather Notifier, a weather alert app; Stock Notifier, an app for monitoring stock price changes; and Design-o-Clock, a mobile watch app for iPhones and future wearable devices.[4][5] The firm also produced the first version of Swingbyte, an iPad-based 3D golf swing analyzer developed alongside aerospace scientists, and Evolyte Analytics, which was an early viral analytics tracking service. This range of projects reflected Everett’s role in building and growing consumer software products, and commercializing sensor-driven spatial computing technologies during the early mobile boom.

Inventing the Stories Media Format & Emotion AI Emojis

In 2011, Everett co-founded Adam & Luna, a product development company centered on selfless social storytelling technology. Its main product, StoryApp, launched in early 2013 as a mobile app for preserving and sharing life stories. The app allowed users to record their voices over a sequence of photos, creating narrated video stories that could be stored privately, shared with friends through a feed or direct messaging, or posted to other social networks. StoryApp included an animated AI character called “KIIY” that detected emotion from users’ voices and responded with animated facial features representing understanding. Everett described the vision behind StoryApp as creating a friend who would always listen but never judge, learning from users over time. The concepts, designs, and mechanics of the product were later open-sourced and influenced the development of the “Stories” media format that subsequently became standard on platforms such as Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn. StoryApp gained a global user base, with users in more than 25 countries. Everett assembled an all-star team that included collaborators from Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Lab, McKinsey, cybersecurity experts, Hollywood story artists and animators, and AI specialists. Team members from the project later went on to work at companies such as Apple, Amazon, Hasbro, Universal, Sony, and Illumination.

Gamification & AdTech

In addition to Adam & Luna, Everett was involved in other startups in the early 2010s, including PLYFE, a gamified digital advertising platform based in New York City. Its first version rewarded users for engaging with brands on social media. Approximately 50,000 users participated in the product launch, earning more than 210 million points through games and challenges.[4] PLYFE formed partnerships with several organizations, including work with the United Nations, while testing new approaches to digital engagement through gamification.

Private Equity and Global Video Streaming Platform Inventions

In 2013, Everett joined the turnaround team for KIT Digital, a global private equity rollup that was emerging from bankruptcy. The company was rebranded as Piksel, with a focus on integrating acquired products while also developing a unified platform for video and audio streaming. Everett worked out of the New York City executive headquarters and traveled to meet with team members, customers, and partners across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Piksel’s clients included broadcasters, Fortune 1000 enterprises, and digital creators who built their own streaming platforms, with ESPN, AT&T U-verse, Liberty Global, and NHK among its customer base. At its peak, Piksel’s HTML5 video players reached nearly half a billion monthly viewers. At Piksel, Everett invented technologies such as mobile live streaming (prior to Facebook and Instagram introducing similar features), personalized linear channels, and connected-car media solutions. The company attracted acquisition interest from Apple and Box but ultimately exited through a series of carve-outs.

Decentralized Technologies Focused on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Digital Assets

Everett was introduced to Bitcoin in 2013 while working with developers who were mining the cryptocurrency. He went on to publish a book titled “What the FU&K Is Bitcoin”, and later wrote a whitepaper, “Cryptocurrency Valuation: Long-Term Analysis of an Emerging Asset Class”, which included a new metric for analyzing the intrinsic value of Bitcoin. He was among the first to place Bitcoin and Ethereum on his private company’s balance sheet. His work in the field included assisting Fortune Crypto’s inaugural publication to bring awareness to hacking and SIM-swap thefts happening to Coinbase users, building and launching a consumer AI hedge fund app that enabled cryptocurrency trading, fractionalizing physical assets such as collectible cars and museum-grade art for global buying and selling (via bank transfer, credit/debit card, Bitcoin, and Ethereuem), enabling cash-to-Bitcoin conversions via physical ATMs and mobile app, which was presented at the 2024 Consensus conference. He has continued to work in the digital asset ecosystem, educating the community through his published analysis, building products to protect users from theft or loss, and inventing novel growth technologies to help consumers establish a stronger livelihood.

Inventing Biologic Intelligence Using Artificial Connectomes

In 2016, Everett co-founded PROME.ai, a California-based artificial intelligence company, where he serves as owner and CEO. PROME.ai’s mission is to develop “Biologic Intelligence,” an Artificial General Intelligence architecture inspired by animal brains and nervous systems, which creates self-learning, low-power intelligence at the edge on inexpensive, off-the-shelf robotics hardware. Over many years of research and development, the company built a connectome-based AI capable of learning and adjusting its architecture in real time without the need for large labeled datasets. In 2017, PROME demonstrated this technology through a rover robot that could avoid obstacles on its first run without prior training and an AI that solved pattern puzzles with increasing efficiency, both powered by a single 1,000-line algorithm. The company has described itself as the first to emulate animal connectomes in software and robotics. PROME’s platform has been proposed for use in self-driving cars, drone swarms, high-frequency trading, and healthcare analytics. The company won a Global “Best AI in Robotics” Award in 2017, was a member of Silicon Valley’s Plug & Play accelerator, and received coverage from mainstream news and technology media, including the Wall Street Journal and CNN.[8] Everett has filed patents related to biologically inspired neural networks and continues to distinguish Biologic Intelligence from conventional artificial intelligence.

Product Growth Strategy Services

In 2017, Everett founded Everett Advisors, later rebranded as Evergence, a product development and experiential branding firm focused on driving growth for companies with strong core values. Through this business, he has provided product development, M&A due diligence, and growth strategy services for private equity investment committees and portfolio companies, the Fortune 500, and high-growth startups.[8] Over the past decade, Everett has conducted hundreds of due diligence projects for private equity investors, culminating in exits in the billions of dollars, served as interim executives (CEO, CPO, CTO, COO), and advised firms across nearly every industry and sector, including consumer, enterprise, and industrial businesses. They have worked with industry-defining companies such as Walmart, Google, Amazon, BASF, AT&T, Goldman Sachs, Netflix, MLB, NFL, IMG, Adidas, Condé Nast, and L’Oréal. Evergence’s approach emphasizes data-driven strategy and rapid iteration, often focusing on achieving significant monthly growth in key business metrics. As Chair and CEO, Everett continues to oversee Evergence’s work in applying technologies such as spatial computing, artificial intelligence, digital assets, and robotics to develop new revenue streams and create value for companies at various size and sophistication levels.

Spatial Computing Inventions

Everett has worked on projects combining spatial computing, augmented reality, and blockchain. These included conducting one of the first blockchain transactions on a Magic Leap augmented reality device, as well as creating mixed-reality content that integrated 2D social media with 3D AR environments. He worked on industrial augmented reality hardware deployed in manufacturing plants, offshore oil and gas rigs, nuclear facilities, and warehouses. The devices attached to hard hats and were controlled using AI voice recognition that used noise cancellation in loud, industrial environments and integrated video displays. The devices were also available in an intrinsically safe version for use around explosive materials. They enabled remote expertise through two-way video calls for equipment repair and maintenance, document viewing, and IoT sensor data analysis. Everett designed and launched a subscription model combining hardware, software, and service, which contributed to a 50 percent revenue increase in one quarter. During this period, he held early discussions with SpaceX’s Starlink leadership while it was still in the concept phase regarding connectivity in remote environments. He further built an ecosystem of system integrators, resellers, software vendors, and channel partners with simplified pricing structures to drive growth.

New Media and Content Creation Initiatives

Beyond product development, Everett has been active in publishing, thought leadership, inventing new media formats, and developing novel content and influencer business models. He founded Humanizing Tech, an online publication that functioned as a think tank for topics such as futurism, AI ethics, startup growth, and the human impacts of technology. The publication was one of the fastest-growing media publications on the internet with an audience of executive decision makers, professional athletes, and investment management experts. It had a premium ad sales department, culminating in acquisition interest by the top publication on Medium. In 2025, he launched https://emerging.tech, a novel content and product platform that helps companies commercialize emerging tech, perform diligence, and identify real innovations that drive business growth. It builds on his earlier work with Humanizing Tech by offering more tactical business guidance. Everett has also managed technology-focused content initiatives on platforms such as Tumblr, Posterous, Quora, and WordPress, including an early publication called Carbon Rabbit that explored deep technology and futurism through the lens of consumer products.

He is in the process of building a new programmatic influencer advertising platform called RealReach.pro that allows brands and agencies to drive hundreds of influencers to a social post or website to increase first and second-order engagement and virality.

Impact and Current Focus

Over the course of three decades, Everett has worked in multiple areas of emerging technology, including fintech, mobile apps, SaaS platforms, social media, digital assets, streaming, artificial intelligence, spatial computing, robotics, and augmented reality. He has founded and scaled companies, contributed to patents in streaming data, multimodal AI and AI in robotics, spatial computing and collective intelligence, and advised global corporations and investors. His current work is divided between leading Evergence, advising and operating Private Equity and the Fortune 500 on technology commercialization, and contributing to the tech community through writing, speaking, and mentoring. Colleagues have described him as a “one-man McKinsey,” and “a product visionary with a focus on making complex technology more accessible”.

Patents

• Media streaming, 2022, US Patent 11,330,316

• Processing content streaming, 2022, US Patent 11,425,439

• Monitoring streaming related to connectivity, 2020, US Patent 10,817,792

• Synchronisation of streamed content, 2020, US Patent 10,791,356

• Providing streamed content responsive to request, 2020, US Patent 10,567,822

• Personalised channel, 2019, US Patent 10,523,989

• Providing recommendations based on predicted context, 2019, US Patent App. 16/074,622

• Artificial connectomes, 2018, US Patent App. 15/658,382

• Controlling delivery of captured streams, 2018, US Patent App. 15/736,564

Pending

• Collective Intelligence reader and writer

• Multi-modal Gen AI