2008
Founded in New York City
About
Building software for businesses since 2008.
Wildcard is a New York software and AI firm. We’ve spent eighteen years building the systems businesses run on. Now we build the AI inside them.
01 The story
Wildcard started in New York in 2008, building web, mobile and desktop software for companies that needed technology to support the business, not the other way around. That business-first instinct never changed. What changed is the moment: AI is now the biggest lever most companies have, and most of them don’t know where to pull it.
25+
Years building software
500+
Projects delivered
02 Founder
Chad Ozgur
Chad founded Wildcard in 2008 and leads every engagement, from the first call through launch and after. He wrote his first code at 10, landed his first client, a law firm, before college, and still writes code every week.
Chad is the Resident CTO at ERA (Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator), one of TIME’s America’s Best Accelerators of 2026, and CTO of Remarkable Ventures. He has held the ERA role since 2013 and works with the technical teams of the 400+ startups ERA has backed. Through Wildcard he has delivered more than 500 projects.
- 2013 to nowResident CTO, ERA. Mentor and sounding board for the technologists in every cohort.
- 2011 to nowCTO, in-house and fractional. Fifteen years running engineering for companies, as a full-time and as a fractional CTO.
- 1996 to 2008Head of business development and board member, Boyut Publishing Group. Built a 54-server data center and a 450-agent telemarketing operation.
03 Speaking & teaching
Chad runs his own work on an AI system he built for himself. It’s the subject of his talks on putting AI to work inside a business.
- Family offices“Building an AI-native fund,” at the AI for Family Offices Summit hosted by Stifel and Remarkable Ventures.
- ERATwo talks for ERA alumni founders.
- JETRO, TokyoA talk in Tokyo, and training the CTOs of 15 Japanese companies in AI-assisted engineering.
04 Why us
Advice and engineering, from the same person.
Twenty-five years of shipping real software means we can tell you what’s worth doing, then go do it. The person who scopes the work is the person who builds it.
“We’re not a team of yes people. Our job is to make sure you make educated decisions.”
The Wildcard way, since 2008
What stays true
- You own everything
- Costs in the open
- The same lead throughout
- Month to month
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Thirty minutes, free, about your business and where AI could help.