About

We built Pyek AI because our own clients were asking for it.

Pyek AI is a service of Pyek Financial, LLC — a fractional CFO firm that has spent years helping mid-market companies run better. When our clients started asking "how do we do AI?", we built the answer.

The origin story.

Pyek Financial has been delivering fractional CFO services to middle market companies for more than a decade. In 2024 and early 2025, we watched the same conversation play out dozens of times in client meetings: an operator asking a variation of "we know we should be doing something with AI — but how?"

The honest answer nobody was giving them: the existing options were broken. Hiring in-house was too expensive. Big-firm consultants delivered slides, not systems. AI startups were chasing enterprise logos. And the mid-market was being asked to wait or to improvise.

So we started building AI tools for ourselves. We built an internal AI workforce — more than ten agents across finance, operations, reporting, HR, and software development. These agents actually add value to our business every single day. Through this process, we proved that middle market companies don't need enterprise complexity to get enterprise-class AI outcomes. They need a senior team that knows their world, builds to their cadence, and gives them something they own.

That's what Pyek AI is.

Principles

How we work.

Ownership over dependency

If we build it, you own it. No proprietary layers, no hostage situations, no "only we can maintain this." Everything documented, everything portable.

Outcomes over activity

We measure ourselves on what got better in your business — not on hours billed or meetings held. If we aren't moving your metrics, we're not doing our job.

Senior people, every time

Engagements are led and run by senior practitioners. You won't get handed off to a team learning on your dime — the people accountable for the work are the ones doing the work that matters.

Honesty first

If we're not the right fit, we say so. If a roadmap item won't ROI, we tell you. If a trade-off exists, we name it. Your trust is worth more than one engagement.

Mid-market native

We calibrate everything — process, tooling, cadence — to how mid-market companies actually operate. Not how enterprise playbooks assume they do.

Build for durability

AI moves fast. We build so your capability keeps working as models, providers, and best practices evolve. No re-platform every 18 months.

Who you'll work with.

The senior team behind Pyek AI. The people who show up on your first call are the same people who show up on your fiftieth.

Ray DeLaughter +

Ray DeLaughter

Managing Partner

Alex Hlavinka +

Alex Hlavinka

Director of AI & Automation

Jerry Boettcher +

Jerry Boettcher

Advisor

Zac Frost +

Zac Frost

Advisor

Aimee DeLaughter +

Aimee DeLaughter

VP of Operations

Jeff Bosworth +

Jeff Bosworth

VP of Accounting

Andrew Boettcher +

Andrew Boettcher

Analyst

Murray Morgan +

Murray Morgan

Analyst

Mason Richard +

Mason Richard

Analyst

Our parent firm

Pyek Financial, LLC.

Pyek Financial delivers fractional CFO and financial services to mid-market companies — the same companies Pyek AI now serves with AI capability. Years of fractional service discipline; hundreds of engagements of operating pattern recognition.

When you engage Pyek AI, you're tapping into both — the deep financial and operational instincts that shaped the firm, and a fractional AI team calibrated to the exact kind of company we've always worked with.

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Pyek Financial services

  • Fractional CFO engagements
  • Finance function build-out
  • Private-equity portco support
  • M&A financial diligence
  • Financial systems & reporting
  • Strategic finance & planning

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