Kevin McNamara
Partner
Leads the firm’s work on AI, quantum-era security, and next-generation computing. Formerly Senior Technology Director of Research at JPMorgan Chase. 77 patents filed.
Independent research & advisory
Where computing goes next.
McNamara Group helps boards and executives make sound decisions about AI, quantum-era security, and the architectures that come after today’s models. Research-backed. Independent. Small on purpose.
77
Patents filed
7
Published papers and essays
5
Board and advisory seats
3
Practice areas, one question
What we do
Three questions every institution now has to answer.
The same question, asked three ways: what does your organization still own when the tool of the moment is gone?
AI Strategy
Use the models. Own the judgment.
Deploy AI without renting the company’s mind. We draw the line between what was generated and what is known, and decide what stays in the house.
Explore
Post-Quantum Security
Secrets have a shelf life.
Find what you encrypt, rank it by how long it must stay secret, and migrate in an order a board can fund, before the deadline arrives.
Explore
Next-Generation Computing
Beyond binary. Beyond the transformer.
Hyperdimensional memory, ternary logic, neural operating systems. We separate the substrate that matters from the paper dressed as a product.
ExploreOur position
Models get cheaper every year. Judgment does not.
We do not sell what a model can already draft. We work on the remainder: what your institution keeps, what it protects, and how it remembers. That work gets more valuable as the models get cheaper.
Research
Latest from the lab.
We write in public. If you want to know how we think, this is faster than a pitch.
From artificial intelligence to synthesized intelligence
Fluent guessing is not knowing. A case for cognition that can abstain, be audited, and repeat.
ReadTernary computing: the way classical computing should be designed
Binary was a habit, not a destiny. What three states mean for energy and intelligence.
ReadNeural operating systems
What if the machine that runs the agents were designed for them from the start?
ReadBanking, after the dollar learned to move
Stablecoins as infrastructure, not a headline. What changes when settlement is programmable.
PDFThe people
You work with the names on the door.
We are small on purpose. If you hire us, you are not hiring a logo.
Theresa McNamara
Partner
Leads product, delivery, and client relationships. Formerly built consumer-scale platforms, including subscriber systems at Consumer Reports. Albright College.
Kaila McNamara
Research Associate
Works on the materials science under the firm’s computing research: two-dimensional semiconductors for next-generation electronics and quantum devices. Stevens Institute of Technology.
How we work
A conversation, then a piece of work with an ending.
01
We talk.
An hour is enough to know if we can help. No theater. You leave with a clearer sentence about the decision in front of you.
02
We do one named thing.
A short diagnostic, a design, a board session, or a retained seat. Always with an output you can hold, and a date it ends.
03
You keep the work.
Nothing rented. The map, the plan, and the reasoning stay in your house, and stay useful after this year’s model is gone.
Contact
Tell us the decision in front of you.
An hour is enough to know if we can help. A named person will answer, not a queue.