An architect who thinks like an auditor.
Arclave, Inc. is the company building the decision system of record. It was founded by Andrew "Drew" Guitarte — one of the few who works where enterprise architecture, artificial intelligence, and audit converge.
Andrew "Drew" Guitarte
Drew builds bridges. For twenty-five years he connected the two worlds most organizations keep apart: the technology and the business, the system and the control, the architect's blueprint and the auditor's evidence. Decision Assurance is where those bridges meet.
His career runs, fittingly, from one audit house toward another. It opened at Price Waterhouse, the global accounting and audit firm, and returned to the profession years later when he served as a Director at Protiviti, the global risk and internal-audit consulting firm. Between those two points came fifteen years at Wells Fargo, where he rose to Enterprise Business Architect and finished on the bank's Recovery and Resolution team, reporting under the Office of the Chief Financial Officer — the regulatory resolution planning, the "living wills," that the Dodd-Frank Act required of the largest banks after the 2008 crisis. He served at IBM Global Services along the way, and today leads Enduraman Corporation, his own management-consulting firm.
He works where assurance is not optional: banking and finance, Fortune 100 manufacturing, wholesale healthcare distribution, the airline industry, and government. He is a long-standing member of ISACA — the professional association formerly known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association — and a former education partner for its San Francisco chapter, a Subject Matter Expert in SAP LeanIX enterprise architecture, and the originator of Emergent Intelligence and the Pluggable Economy. He is a doctoral candidate in Business Administration and holds a Master of Science in Computer Science, majoring in Artificial Intelligence, and teaches as an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University. Drew runs marathons with his wife.
The résumé is the lineage, lived.
Decision Assurance traces the discipline of assurance through several regulated fields. Drew worked inside the regulated version of each one.
| Regulated arena | The regime it runs on | Its assurance lineage |
|---|---|---|
| Banking & finance (fifteen years) | Dodd-Frank resolution planning; Sarbanes-Oxley; Federal Reserve oversight | The audit lineage |
| Fortune 100 manufacturing | Quality assurance, process safety, environmental and product regulation | The Quality Assurance lineage |
| The airline industry | The Federal Aviation Administration; the DO-178C world | The Design Assurance Level lineage |
| Wholesale healthcare distribution | The Drug Supply Chain Security Act — serialized track-and-trace | Assurance of provenance and traceability |
| Government (interim Chief Architect, a major city) | Public accountability, transparency, procurement and records regimes | Assurance owed to the public |
Arclave is the living implementation of Emergent Intelligence.
Emergent Intelligence is Drew's framework for understanding artificial intelligence as a complex adaptive system rather than a linear one — the unified theory toward which a twenty-five-year research career has been building.
2015 — Taming the wicked problem of portfolio management
Project Management Institute Global Congress. Defines the problem class and introduces agent-based models as the response.
2017 — Compliments to the CHEF
Cutter Consortium. Embeds "emergent" in the framework and applies cognitive, heuristic, and emergent decision-making to financial services.
2022 — The Pluggable Economy
An original economic framework grounded in complex adaptive systems — autonomous agents connecting through standard interfaces.
Today — Arclave
An agentic Architecture Review Board system, and the first instrumented experiment in Emergent Intelligence — including the pre-registered hypothesis it disconfirmed.
What we claim, and what we do not.
The book's own ethic, turned on its author. Drew operated inside regulated industries; began his career at an audit firm; served as a Director at a risk-and-internal-audit firm; reported under a bank's Office of the Chief Financial Officer on regulatory resolution planning; and belongs to the information-systems audit profession's body as a long-standing member.
We do not claim he is a career external auditor, a Certified Public Accountant, or a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He holds none of the audit or risk certifications, and no copy here implies otherwise. He is a doctoral candidate — not a holder of a doctorate. The authority is the intersection — enterprise architecture, artificial intelligence, and audit — not a credential he does not carry. That intersection is rare, and rare is the moat.
The same honesty governs the science. The hypothesis that an AI board out-decides a strong human expert was Drew's own — pre-registered, then disconfirmed across seven regimes. The result is published, not buried. Read it.
Arclave, Inc.
Arclave, Inc. is a Delaware corporation building the decision system of record. The intellectual property of the Arclave program is assigned in from Enduraman Corporation, Drew's consulting firm and the predecessor that carried the early research.
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