NitroBot

About

NitroBot is built by Tailored AI.

Tailored AI is the product company behind NitroBot Email and NitroBot Worlds. Its Chief Executive Officer, Alexander Gounares, is the founder behind the ThoughtfulBits brand: ThoughtfulBits Consulting and the publication ThoughtfulBits: Ideas that Matter.

The products share one stance: bring the bot you already trust, keep every source in view, and leave the decisions that matter with the person who owns them.

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Founder

Alexander Gounares

Chief Executive Officer, Tailored AI

Alex is a technology executive, an inventor on more than 200 patents, a former EVP and CTO of AOL, a former Microsoft Corporate Vice President, and Bill Gates’ former Technology Advisor. He has also served as CEO of Polyverse Corporation.

“I still write and ship code every day.”

  • 200+

    U.S. patents issued or pending

  • 30+

    Years building software

  • Princeton

    BSE Computer Science, cum laude

  • Los Alamos

    Worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Track record

  1. 2024 — Present

    Luminate Capital · Innovation Partner

    Board and operating-partner roles across eight software portfolio companies; every one now has AI-native product initiatives and broad internal AI adoption underway.

  2. 2012 — 2024

    Polyverse Corporation · Founder & CEO

    Cybersecurity company built on polymorphic defense. $10M+ cumulative revenue, sold to U.S. Government customers, including a NAVSEA SBIR Phase III.

  3. 2010 — 2012

    AOL · Executive Vice President & CTO

    Led global engineering, IT, and technology operations for the $2.2B public company, managing a 1,300+ person global workforce through AOL’s post-spin turnaround.

  4. 1993 — 2010

    Microsoft · Corporate Vice President

    Online Services Division CTO across Bing, MSN, and Microsoft Advertising; Technology Advisor to Bill Gates. Led 1,300+ engineers building platforms supporting $2.5B+ in annual revenue, and served as a key executive on 14+ acquisitions totaling $7B+.

  5. Early career

    Beginnings · Founder & researcher

    Founded a grid-computing startup; worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Princeton University, BSE Computer Science, cum laude, 1993.

Career details as published on thoughtfulbits.ai.

The ThoughtfulBits brand

Consulting, writing and live building, under one name.

ThoughtfulBits Consulting

AI-driven turnarounds for software companies.

Alex Gounares helps PE-backed software companies set AI product strategy, improve operations, and ship software.

  • AI product strategy. Product roadmaps and positioning for software companies adapting to AI.
  • Operating leverage. AI adoption across engineering, sales, marketing, and back-office teams to reduce costs and improve delivery.
  • Hands-on execution. Technical architecture, executive recruiting, and sales support.

Kirkland, WA

thoughtfulbits.ai

ThoughtfulBits: Ideas that Matter

Essays on Substack

Practical analysis of AI, technology, product strategy, and B2B software for founders, operators, executives, and investors.

thoughtfulbits.me

Live AI coding

YouTube @speedybit

Live AI coding: watch Alex build software with AI.

Watch on YouTube

How we build

Rules we hold every product to.

These are engineering commitments, not slogans. They shape how NitroBot Email and NitroBot Worlds are designed and tested.

  1. 01

    Your bot does the thinking

    You bring Grok Bot or a compatible MCP agent. NitroBot gives it a scoped place to work: explicit grants, nothing implied, and revocation that fences late results.

  2. 02

    Evidence stays visible

    Summaries cite their sources. Turns trace back to decisions. Coverage and as-of status are shown exactly, and stale output is never presented as current.

  3. 03

    You approve what matters

    Preparation can be automatic. Sending mail, archiving, external effects and committed moves require an explicit action from you.

  4. 04

    Built to recover

    Durable workflows and indexed state let work resume after interruptions and reconcile uncertain results instead of repeating them.

The products

NitroBot products

NitroBot Email

The right context. The next useful action.

NitroBot Email brings everyday Gmail, Outlook and iCloud mail together with prioritized buckets, source-linked summaries, prepared replies and agent actions you explicitly approve. Providers stay authoritative; every message stays available.

Learn moreOpen email.nitrobot.ai
NitroBot Worlds

Big decisions. A world to try them in.

NitroBot Worlds gives consequential decisions a shared world to play out in. People take part through their own bots; Worlds keeps the official world, sealed turns, private participant workspaces and hosted AI participants, and the Dash console shows what happened and why.

Learn moreOpen worlds.nitrobot.ai