In August of 2024, Old Dominion University student Luke Scrivanich was on a mission to build a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that connected Monarchs to the wider world of business. He emailed Paul Nolde at 757 Collab asking for a meeting, and told him he wanted more… more community, more like-minded people, more opportunity to build.
Nolde made the introduction that changed everything. He put Scrivanich in touch with Charlie O’Brien, a self-proclaimed “AI nerd” and senior product and operations manager at 757 Collab. The two hit it off faster than ChatGPT answering a prompt, and O’Brien and Scrivanich knew they could start a business together.
A few months later, O’Brien crossed paths with Chris Davidson, a Peninsula-based entrepreneur and Chamber consultant, while serving together on a regional initiative. Davidson was already experimenting with AI at his consulting company, Orca Strategies. During a committee meeting, O’Brien used a GPT-style model that he had built himself to produce a comprehensive plan for the committee’s work… all on the fly and within mere seconds. That output surprised and briefly unsettled the room. Davidson saw potential. He tried to offer O’Brien contract work with Orca Strategies. O’Brien said no, but did express interest when Davidson suggested a joint venture. Scrivanich was introduced to the mix and the trio felt like there was good chemistry.
What followed was part research trip, part reconnaissance. The newly formed team embarked on a “secret mission” to CES 2025 (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas to validate ideas and scout the competitive landscape. Their search for real, agentic AI (software that autonomously does tasks on your behalf) came up short. “Agents were the talk of the town,” O’Brien remembers, “but where were the actual agents? Only a handful could be found.”
That gap became the spark for a new company which they formed on April 8, 2025. They named it “LOGENTIQ” as a nod to logic, AI agents, and human intelligence (IQ). Their mission is simple and direct: make AI accessible, usable, and fun, and compress the time it takes for an idea to become reality.
LOGENTIQ’s main product is an AI-native business operations system. Rather than another chatbot, it functions like a team of digital employees. Give it a CEO’s vision, and the platform reverse-engineers that ambition into a roadmap including strategy & milestones… right down to the actionable items a team needs to complete each day. Meetings stop being a list of vague takeaways; they become the inputs that feed a living plan.
“Compress the time from vision to reality,” Davidson says. “What we’re really selling is time.” He explains that the platform ultimately gives operators and their teammates more time to do the things that they enjoy in life, with the people whom they love.
For Scrivanich, the value is operational clarity. “Resolve pain and eliminate uncertainty in a startup’s direction,” he says. “As a startup operator, you’re always second-guessing. Operationalizing the vision lets you see which action items are actually moving the needle.”
The company is targeting startups, solo founders, small businesses, and entrepreneurial support organizations. The pitch is straightforward: instead of hiring to scale, amplify your headcount with a team of AI agents that handle planning, execution, and follow through. The concept is practical: reverse-engineer leadership goals into step-by-step tasks, bake promotion and outreach into workflows, and tie everyday tasks back to long-term metrics and high-level priorities.
The founders are pragmatic about challenges. Data capture matters. The system is only as good as the inputs it receives. And pricing will be a critical consideration as LOGENTIQ scales. But they frame those constraints as engineering problems the product is built to solve.
“Helping create a detailed plan from just the vision,” Davidson says, “tied into every level of operations.” The platform aims to turn sit-on-the-shelf strategic plans into hardwired, day-to-day actions that actually help accomplish the mission.
From a cold email at Old Dominion, to late-night strategy sessions, and a stealth trip to CES, the LOGENTIQ origin story is distinctly local to Hampton Roads, rooted in ODU, 757 Collab, and the connective tissue of the region’s startup community. But these founders know that their idea scales far beyond the Tidewater region.
The trio is on a mission to help companies all across the globe while creating a billion dollar business… right here in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
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