Frequently asked questions
Direct answers to the questions we hear most from founders, boards, and investors.
What does MYTD do?
MYTD is a full-service business management firm serving AI-based technology companies. The firm assists leaders in creating meaningful growth transformations that provide companies with long-term value. Its work spans strategic business development, financial advisory, technology and AI enablement, growth transformation, proprietary opportunities and investments, and social impact.
Who does MYTD work with?
MYTD works with AI-based technology companies — specifically the founders and operators who run them, the boards and leadership teams who govern them, and the investors and capital partners who back them. The firm refers to the companies it works with as partners, reflecting a long-term, accountable relationship rather than a transactional one.
What services does MYTD provide?
MYTD provides six connected services: strategic business development, financial advisory and capital strategy, technology and AI enablement, growth transformation, proprietary opportunities and investments, and social impact advisory. Engagements can draw on a single practice or combine several, depending on what an initial assessment shows the business needs.
What does “full-service business management firm” mean?
It means MYTD takes responsibility for outcomes across a company’s whole management agenda — strategy, finance, technology, execution, and impact — rather than advising on one narrow slice. Partners work with one firm across these disciplines instead of coordinating multiple specialist vendors.
How do I engage MYTD?
Contact MYTD through the contact form. Most engagements begin with an assessment: a structured review of the company’s strategy, finances, technology, and market position that identifies where the leverage is before any larger program is scoped.
How does an MYTD engagement work?
MYTD engagements follow four phases: assess, plan, execute, sustain. The firm first assesses the business as it actually is, then plans the transformation with leadership, works alongside the team through execution, and finally builds the practices and capabilities that keep delivering value after the engagement ends.
Where is MYTD located?
MYTD is reachable in New York. Contact the firm through the contact form.
Does MYTD only work with AI companies?
MYTD’s practice is focused on AI-based technology companies. That deliberate focus is central to the firm’s value: the combination of fast-moving technology, demanding capital markets, and high-stakes growth decisions these companies face is what MYTD’s full-service model is built for.
Does MYTD invest in the companies it works with?
MYTD’s mission includes proprietary opportunities and investment capital among the resources it brings to partners. Where interests genuinely align, the firm can introduce proprietary opportunities or investment capital to companies it works with — always transparently and on terms partners can scrutinize.
What is MYTD’s mission?
MYTD’s mission, in the firm’s own words: “MYTD strives to create superior value for our partners and communities by utilizing cutting-edge technology, financial expertise, proprietary opportunities, investment capital, strategic business development, and a solid commitment to social impact.”
What values does MYTD operate by?
MYTD publishes eighteen values that govern how it works: honesty, integrity, quality, good citizenship, respect, kindness, trust, empathy, negotiation, fairness, innovation, education, responsibility, success, esteem, leadership, privacy, and diversity. The full text of each value is available on the firm’s About page at mytd.com/about.
How does MYTD handle confidentiality and privacy?
Privacy is one of MYTD’s eighteen published values: the firm prioritizes its partners’ privacy and takes responsibility for handling their information with the utmost discretion. Confidentiality applies across all engagements, including work involving proprietary opportunities and investments.
What stage of company does MYTD work with?
MYTD works with AI-based technology companies across their growth journey — the firm’s financial and capital advisory covers every stage of growth, and its transformation work is scaled to the situation at hand. The initial assessment determines what a given company needs and whether MYTD is the right partner for it.
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What does the social impact commitment mean in practice?
MYTD’s mission commits the firm to creating value for communities as well as partners. In practice, MYTD helps companies integrate social impact into their growth strategy, conduct business transparently and ethically, and make impact commitments they can actually stand behind — measurable, honest, and proportionate to the business.