memorandum · the thesis

A house for documents.

A memorandum from the two people who founded Niska, on the firms the current wave of AI passed over and the system we are building to reach them.

memorandum · no. 001p. 02

beverly hills & frederick · june 2026

memo no. 001

from · the founders of niska

re · the firms the ai wave passed over

Every wave of software so far has gone wide. It picked the easy markets, the ones with clean APIs and predictable workflows. The firms whose work product is a document — a contract, a workpaper, a deposition, a clinical note, a SOW — were left to the last decade's enterprise stack and the basic chatbots that cannot read what actually matters.

We started Niska for those firms. We are building the system that meets them where the work happens: one data layer that holds every document, learns how the firm actually works, and turns it into answers and automated workflows that act like the firm's best employee.

We are convinced the gap is the same in every industry where documents are the product. It does not matter whether the firm is a financial services partnership, a defense contractor, a medical practice, a legal team, an insurance carrier, an architecture studio, or any other firm where the answer to the next question lives inside the file room. The same three things are always true. The basic chatbots cannot read all of the documents and context that matter. The enterprise software does not understand how the firm works. And the AI demos fall apart the first time a partner asks how this actually helps their bottom line.

Niska is built for that gap, and the gap is vertical agnostic. The data layer is the same in every deployment. What we build on top is generated from your firm's own documents, your people, and your process. Nothing generic ever ships to a customer.

We founded Niska because we agreed on one thing. The industries that run on documents and institutional knowledge are some of the most valuable in the economy, they had been left behind by the current wave of AI, and someone had to actually build the system that meets them where they work. So we are. That is the whole of the agreement, and this memorandum is the position we hold.

signed,

Tucker Peters

co-founder

Leo Roberto

co-founder

exhibit a · the principalsp. 03
  • 01

    Tucker Peters

    co-founder

    Tucker is a sophomore at William & Mary pursuing a double major in Finance and Government, and concurrently interns at WGS Systems, a defense technology contractor. This summer he joins Keystone Strategy in New York as a Summer Associate.

    He founded the William & Mary AI Club, a 130+ member organization, and previously built AI-enhanced learning products through GenEdu LLC. Originally from Westport, Connecticut.

  • 02

    Leo Roberto

    co-founder

    Leo is a student at William & Mary with a track record of building revenue-generating ventures. He founded RenderRise Digital, a websites and AI systems agency that scaled to $20K MRR serving SMBs, and has held growth and publisher operations roles at Falcon Labs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

    He co-founded The Economic Review at William & Mary, the university's student journal for economics. His earlier experience spans internships at PBS NewsHour, Kontrolmatik Technologies, and The George Washington University School of Business.

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annex · correspondencep. 04

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