Clarity without translation.
Direction without
dashboards.

Experience That Can't Be Simulated

Lukas is not an academic theorizing about business failure. He is an operator who lived inside it.

Experience at a glance:

He has hired, downsized, survived cash crunches, negotiated with banks, rescued margins, and rebuilt operations. He has seen what owners face when numbers stop being abstract and start being existential.

Systems Thinking, Applied to Business Health

Blake Drakos began his career as an engineer, earning a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Montana Tech, with minors in Business Management and Mathematics. His training centered on breaking complex systems down, understanding how and why they fail, and rebuilding them to perform better. That systems-oriented mindset followed him into business early.

While still in college, Blake founded and operated multiple ventures. Some succeeded. Most did not. Through those experiences, he encountered a reality many founders don't openly discuss: strong ideas often fail not because of effort or ambition, but because of invisible operational and financial blind spots. Decisions were made on intuition instead of signal, and problems compounded quietly until it was too late.

Rather than walking away, Blake became focused on pattern recognition—studying why certain businesses collapse while others stabilize and scale. That pursuit took him deep into operations, financial modeling, and ultimately AI-driven decision systems. He learned to apply artificial intelligence not as a buzzword, but as a practical tool: one that surfaces early warning signals, translates raw data into clarity, and enables operators to act before small issues become existential threats.

At Helcyon, Blake's role is deliberate and relentless: building systems that make businesses healthier, not noisier. His focus is on turning complexity into operational discipline—ensuring Helcyon delivers real-world execution, not theoretical insight. Having lived on the other side of uncertainty himself, Blake understands that clarity delivered early doesn't just inform decisions—it changes outcomes.

Growth, Built on Signal

Ben brings a disciplined, systems oriented perspective to Helcyon, shaped by formal training and first hand exposure to how businesses grow, stall, and fail in practice.

He earned a bachelors in business and information technology from Montana Technological University, where he developed a foundation at the intersection of technology, data, and business decision making. That perspective continues to guide his approach to growth not as isolated marketing activity but as an outcome of aligned strategy, execution, and financial clarity.

Early in his career, Ben was involved in building multiple startups. Not every effort endured, but together they exposed recurring decision making and visibility gaps common in growing businesses. Those experiences revealed a consistent pattern of capable teams making high confidence decisions with incomplete signals and discovering risk only after it had compounded. Rather than disengage, Ben focused on understanding where clarity breaks down and how better systems could surface insight earlier.

Much of his formative learning came through sustained work in the digital marketing space, where real world execution sharpened his understanding of feedback loops, measurement, and scale. Over time, these experiences converged into a clear conviction that artificial intelligence, applied correctly, could translate complexity into timely understanding for operators.

At Helcyon, Ben focuses on ensuring the platform communicates with precision, earns trust deliberately, and applies artificial intelligence in service of earlier, better informed decisions.