Empwr.ai supercharges collaboration between individual contributors, teams, and companies at the speed and scale of AI. We help our customers unlock their vast trove of unstructured business data to gain unprecedented efficiencies and uncover previously hidden insights.

The Team

Empwr.ai is a distributed team based in Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, and Santa Barbara. Empwr.ai emerged from stealth in October 2025 to improve team efficiency and execution velocity while achieving enterprise program objectives.

Ludovic Hauduc

Co-founder , CEO

Ex-VP of AI Infrastructure at Meta and Ex-Corporate VP of Platform Engineering at Microsoft. Ludo has deep AI,  productivity software, and leadership experience.

Chris Pirich

Co-founder , CTO

Ex Partner Director of Development at Xbox and Microsoft. Chris is an accomplished startup advisor for companies like Pioneer Square Labs, Mighty AI (acq Uber) Hulu, Kevala, TeamSense, Convoy, Rover, TraceMe (acq Nike), and Code.org.

Keshav Puttaswamy`

Co-founder, CPO

Ex Director of Product at Microsoft (Project, Yammer, Windows ES), Atlassian (Server, Data Center), Meta (Messaging Platform)

Matthew Gilk

Sr. Software Engineer

Former startup CTO and senior software engineer at early stage startups and breakthrough unicorns including Avant and Groupon. Matt is a talented full stack engineer with a talent for design.

Jonas Erthal

Sr. Software Engineer

Ex Microsoft and JPMorgan Chase. Founder of an AI based sales simulation tool sold to University of Washington. Jonas is an AI software engineer who has been programming since the age of 11.

Jeremiah Seraphine

Co-founder, VP of Product

Serial entrepreneur, Ex Chief of Staff at Ford Model e Connected Vehicle Software, and a seasoned product management and growth leader at early stage startups and large enterprises.