About OwnAiS
Engineers who've shipped for four decades — now building AI for main-street businesses.
OwnAiS was founded by two Principal Engineers who spent their careers making complex telecom systems run reliably at massive scale. Today, we bring that same discipline to AI for local business.
Co-founder · Nashville, TN
Tim Somers
40+ years in technology, with 33 years at Verizon as a Principal Engineer. Tim has spent his career designing and troubleshooting the systems that businesses actually run on — and translating hard engineering into plain, practical outcomes.
"If it can't survive a Monday morning, it isn't ready for production."
Co-founder · Fort Worth, TX · U.S. Army veteran
Jim Conner
Former Verizon Principal Engineer, MBA with a 4.0, and a U.S. Army veteran. Jim brings the discipline of the military and the rigor of enterprise engineering to every OwnAiS build.
"AI is nothing more than a library with an automated librarian."