Most AI consultants give you a roadmap and send an invoice. Bear Brown takes equity. As founder of Bear Brown & Company and Associate Teaching Professor of Engineering at Northeastern University — where he leads the AI for Education Project and collaborates with the Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School — he brings rare depth to early-stage AI advising: bespoke AI strategy, hands-on build support, and a direct line to exceptional recent engineering graduates at entry-level rates. His research spans machine learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning, and computational biology. His practice spans the gap between research-grade AI and organizations that need it working by next quarter. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA, a postdoc from Harvard Medical School, and an MBA — and a career's worth of proof that AI doesn't have to be a black box to be brilliant.