Blackman Morgan Sachs Group is the AI consulting practice of Michael Hanna — 35 years across mortgage banking, fintech, and AI infrastructure. We build the assistants and agents that small and mid-sized businesses actually need, not the AI strategy decks they don't.
Michael spent two decades inside the mortgage business. Originated $350M+ in loans across Hancock Whitney, JPMorgan Chase, and First Horizon. Watched, in real time, how much of a banker's day is consumed by paperwork, phone tag, status updates, and re-keying data between systems. Built the same kind of friction-shaped scar tissue that any blue-collar contractor or law-firm partner builds over a long career.
That's the gap BMSachs fills. We're not an AI startup chasing a series A. We're an operator-led consulting practice that builds working agents in 4-8 weeks, hands them off to your team, and gets out of the way.
An owner-builder, not a sales team. When you call us, you talk to the person who'll write the code. There is no junior account exec selling you something a delivery team can't ship.
Patent-grade infrastructure. Michael is the sole inventor on 42 patent filings through JunkDNA AI, covering identity verification, zero-knowledge proofs, and AI orchestration. The same architectural rigor sits underneath every BMSachs build.
Two audiences, one craft. We work with HVAC owners and law-firm managing partners alike. The vocabulary differs; the discipline doesn't. Map the bottleneck. Build the smallest thing that fixes it. Train the team. Hand over the keys.
Private by default. For regulated industries, we deploy on-premise or in your private cloud. Your data never trains a public model. Your matter files, patient charts, and customer records stay yours.
Headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Project work runs across the United States — primarily Texas, Louisiana, and the Southeast for in-person engagements, with remote delivery available nationwide.
Michael Hanna is the founder and managing principal. Boston University (Electrical Engineering & Finance), NMLS #51241 since 2007, fluent in English and French, conversational in Arabic, Portuguese, and Spanish. Hosts The Mike Drop Experience — a weekly podcast at the intersection of capital, code, and compliance.
For the longer story, the personal site is at proteushanna.com.