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 a training company. We're not going to teach your staff prompts. We run the agents on their behalf.

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.

Ready to see it on your data?

Book a 45-minute working session.

We'll map your existing systems to the three fastest agent wins — typically a board-book draft, a churn-and-renewal forecast, and one finance report — and show you live what the output would look like against your data.

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What to expect
45 min · Austin + Pedro · no prep required
Who joinsCEO + CFO + IT lead
FormatWorking session, not demo
Deliverable1-page agent map
Cost$0 — on us
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