About Rustproof

Associations are old institutions running on aging infrastructure. We prevent the rust.

Rustproof is a managed-service AI firm built specifically for trade associations and non-profits. We're not a horizontal AI tool and we're not a consultancy that disappears after the slide deck. We run the work.

Why we exist

Associations shouldn't have to build an AI team to get AI benefits.

The average mid-sized trade association has 20–100 staff, a legacy member database, a finance system from a previous decade, and a board that wants ROI answers this quarter. Hiring an AI team isn't realistic. Buying yet another SaaS tool compounds the problem they already have.

Rustproof offers a different model: we run the AI for you. We deploy agents that read from the systems you already have, we review their output, and we hand your staff the artifact — the board packet, the ROI report, the churn scorecard — in the tools they already use.

We chose associations and non-profits because the data structure is consistent, the pain is universal, and the ROI conversation is a board-level priority across the entire sector.

The team

Three operators. Deep relevant experience.

We're a small team on purpose. Every client engagement is led directly by a founder with a senior engineer alongside — no account-manager layer, no slide-deck handoff.

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Austin Bradham

CEO
Runs the company. Leads the commercial relationship with every association we serve. Builds the pipeline and owns the go-to-market.
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Alan Pentz

Founder · Board
Quarterbacks early engagements. Strategy and product vision. Previously built a $35M government-contracting firm; featured in Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
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Pedro

Lead Engineer · Forward-deployed
Builds the ontology, agents, and data pipelines. Deploys inside your tenant alongside your IT team. Handles cloud and model integration end-to-end.
What we're not

A short list, because it matters.

Not generic prompt training. We help your team use Claude, Cowork, and AI integrations inside real workflows, then run the agents where managed service makes more sense.

Not a consultancy. You don't get a deck and a goodbye. You get a running service with quarterly outputs and a named engineer.

Not a SaaS tool. You don't log in. You don't maintain anything. The output lands in your email, your document stores, or your board packet — wherever you already look.

Not horizontal. We only serve trade associations and non-profits. That focus is the entire point.

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