Selected Clients

Accelerator Enterprise Technology - Beverly Hills, CA
Accelerator Enterprises Technology provides a spectrum of IT services ranging from staff augmentation to complete project outsourcing. AET staffing options range from onsite full time to off shore part time resources. "I hired Cayenne Consulting to coach me through a transitional period in my business. Cayenne has brought clarity, structure and accountability to the process," said David Victor, CEO. "The coach’s role as guide and mentor based on his extensive experience has allowed me to learn new skills and grow as a business owner. The net result is we are achieving the goals we have set for the business."

American Mortgage Specialists - Mesa, AZ
American Mortgage Specialists has grown to become one of the largest mortgage banks/brokers in the West, with 180 branch offices and 1,200 employees. Until now, the company's growth has been fueled through marketing expertise. However, further growth was constrained by working capital needs. Thus, Cayenne Consulting was engaged to prepare a business plan to make the case for investing in AMS. "Cayenne was professional, fast, and delivered an excellent product," said David McMaster, Vice President of Mortgage Banking at AMS. The plan was "to the point and tells the story. Very well done."

Artificial Development - Palo Alto, CA, Madrid, Spain and Cochin, India
Artificial Development is creating a bio-realistic whole-brain simulation system (both hardware and software) that will enable both neural research and the development of advanced cognitive applications. Cayenne Consulting developed the company's business plan and financial model for the investor community. "We've been working away for over two years, but with competition looming we needed to go into high gear. Cayenne made our advantages explicit and our positioning clear, and created a plan that speaks to investors." said Marcos Guillen, President and CEO.

BadOnlineDates.com - Marina Del Rey, CA
BadOnlineDates.com is developing an online community for daters to share their experiences and find camaraderie, a concept which merges social networking and online dating, two of the most viable Internet trends. Cayenne Consulting developed the business plan, financial projections, and provided guidance on BadOnlineDates.com’s growth strategy. CEO Jennifer Kelton said, "The credibility the business plan has given me has been instrumental in assembling my team and advisors. The coaching my consultant provided me above and beyond preparing my plan was invaluable. With Cayenne's assistance I am now in a position to launch BadOnlineDates.com quickly and with confidence."

CytoDome - Atlanta, GA
CytoDome is developing a local drug delivery device that aims at regulating drug uptake by ailing brain tissue. The device is based on a novel technological approach. When asked how he would describe Cayenne Consulting to fellow entrepreneurs, Gill Heart, President and CEO of CytoDome responded: "If you need a reliable, independent, accurate, and prompt consultant to write your business plan, do not hesitate to engage Cayenne."

Deluge, Inc. - Phoenix, AZ
Deluge developed the Natural Energy Engine™, the innovative thermal hydraulic engine that won the prestigious Federal Laboratories Consortium's 2005 Outstanding Technology Development Award for pumping oil out of the ground using geothermal heat as the engine's sole source of energy. Pumping oil in the Midwest is Deluge's first successful commercial application for their revolutionary technology, dubbed the NE Engine™ because it can literally replace any engine. Brian Hageman, CEO of the company and inventor of the NE Engine™ commented, "The comprehensive business plan developed for Deluge by Cayenne Consulting will assist our company in moving forward with other commercial applications." Among the many applications under development for the NE Engine™ are desalination, electricity production, and solar powered air conditioning. Mr. Hageman continued, "Cayenne's financial forecasts have proven to be a valuable tool. We are very happy with the quality of Cayenne's professional services."

EE Instruments - San Jose, CA
EE Instruments develops leading-edge CAD software enabling semiconductor companies to design smaller chips. Cayenne Consulting developed their business plan and financial model. According to Tom Geocaris, CEO, "Cayenne's one-on-one process of working was effective. I'm very happy with the way the business plan turned out. It's given us good early traction with investors."

eShip-4u - Israel
eShip's Automatic Delivery Machine (ADM) network is a groundbreaking solution for managing the parcel delivery supply chain in the last mile, translating into increased efficiency and profits for global shipping vendors and greater convenience for their residential customers. Cayenne Consulting prepared eShip's business plan and investor presentation. eShip was acquired by Siemens. "Thanks for the quick response!" said Nir Kinory, COO and Executive Vice President. "You keep breaking your own records!"

Florence Medical - Wellesley, MA
Florence Medical develops advanced systems based on computational flow dynamics for diagnosing and treating cardiovascular disease. Cayenne Consulting developed Florence's business plan and investor presentation for the venture capital community. "We received an outstanding business plan, and the process was fast and easy. Cayenne Consulting excels in taking complex ideas and making them understandable to non-specialists," said Frank Martin, CEO of Florence Medical.

GoCar Franchise Services, Inc. - San Francisco, CA
GoCar is a pioneer of the satellite-guided tourism industry. In addition to deploying the first-ever GPS Storytelling Car, the company is building a GPS Tour Network which will provide a new way of entertaining and educating travelers, by having available tours in many themes and multiple languages. Cayenne Consulting developed their business plan and financial model. Writes Alasdair Clements, GoCar's CFO, "Our business has many elements from software, tour content, and interesting vehicles, all mixed together to deliver a compelling tour experience. Our Cayenne consultant was able to focus us on the storyboard and flow of our business plan, and distill the many sophisticated aspects of our business into a simple yet compelling presentation. The discipline in the financial modelling was especially helpful. We have deployed the presentation to very good effect in a variety of investor settings."

Harmonia Medical Technologies - Tucson, AZ
Harmonia Medical Technologies develops cutting-edge, biodegradable polymer-based, local drug delivery stenting technologies for treating Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia. Cayenne Consulting developed Harmonia's business plan, financial projections, and website. "I would like to thank you for an extraordinary business plan... Your promptness, focus and time management as well as cost effectiveness are excellent. Well done!", said Gill Heart, COO of Harmonia Medical Technologies. "Let me take this opportunity to thank you for the excellent job you did for Harmonia. I circulated the plan among my partners [at Veritas Venture Partners], as an example of what a b-plan should look like," said Gideon Tolkowski, Managing Partner of Veritas Venture Partners, an investor in Harmonia.

High Throughput Genomics - Tucson, AZ
HTG develops and markets advanced technologies for analyzing the transcriptome - the RNA that transcribes DNA into proteins - providing pharmaceutical companies with a tool that can revolutionize the drug discovery market. Cayenne Consulting developed HTG's business plan. "The work that you did was quite remarkable. It's rare to find a consultant that can combine an understanding of business and science to create a persuasive and well-written business plan for a complex business like ours," said Kirk Collamer, CFO of High Throughput Genomics.

HKX - Monroe, WA
HKX is the leading provider of hydraulic system kits for the installation and use of attachments on excavators. Cayenne Consulting provided the business plan, marketing plan, and additional advisory services in support of the company's mergers and acquisitions strategy. "Cayenne Consulting helped identify the areas where focus would allow HKX to increase its share of an expanding market," said John Elley, President of HKX. "We needed the discipline of planning Cayenne Consulting provides to do this."

Integrated Axis - Tucson, AZ
Integrated Axis, currently operating as a systems integrator, is a stealth-mode company developing a revolutionary business model for distributing telecommunications services to the small and medium-sized business market. Cayenne Consulting developed Integrated Axis' business plan, financial projections, investor presentation, website, and a prototype of the planned telecommunications distribution system. "Working with Cayenne Consulting really put us into high gear, and we have been extremely pleased with all that they have done for us. A real pleasure to work with," said Randy Asselin, President of Integrated Axis.

Joke Show, Inc. - New York, NY
Joke Show, Inc. is creating a live-action comedy web channel, ItTastesFunny.com. The channel's roots lie in the award-winning HBO Actual Jokes series, a creation of the company's founders. ItTastesFunny.com is a unique destination featuring sketch comedy, short viral films, and interactive characters, all centered around the essential core of comedy: the well told joke. Cayenne Consulting developed Joke Show's business plan and financial model, and helped devise a go-to-market strategy. "The plan feels very much unique to our venture, which is terrific," said George Belshaw, CEO. Mr. Belshaw describes Cayenne Consulting as "Professional, thorough, smart, insightful, diligent, experienced."

Journée Lighting, Inc. - Westlake Village, CA
Journée Lighting develops and manufactures specialty lighting for demanding applications such as display lighting and museum artifact illumination. The light source is spectrum selectable light emitting diodes with an on board semiconductor based control system. Journée Lighting's products emit no infrared or ultraviolet energy bringing a new level of energy efficiency both in energy consumed and heat dissipated. Cayenne consulting developed the company's business plan and financial model. "I was extremely pleased with the service and expertise that Tom Provided! I have already started to recommend him to my friends/associates. My SBA Loan was just approved today! You are very fortunate to have someone of Tom's caliber on your team," said Clayton Alexander, founder of Journée Lighting.

Ligare Systems - Oakland, CA
Ligare develops and markets residential environmental control systems offering centralized control of zoned HVAC, security, irrigation, lighting, entertainment, and other systems. Cayenne Consulting prepared Ligare's business plan, financial forecast, and investor presentation. "We were amazed by how little effort was required on our part to have Cayenne prepare these materials. We exchanged a few phone calls and e-mails, and they handled the rest. The results were clear, professional, and persuasive, and the investors and advisors who have seen the materials loved them," said Lisa Kenney, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "They know what investors want, and they delivered."

LightStream Technologies - Herndon, VA
LightStream develops and commercializes advanced water disinfection systems. The unique Pulsed UV technology, backed by $14 million in R&D since 1998, overcomes the hazards associated with conventional chlorine and mercury UV disinfection, and is more economical than ozone, mercury UV, and membrane disinfection. Cayenne Consulting developed the company's business plan, financial forecast, and investor presentation. Van Lanier, Founder of LightStream Technologies, said: "If you're time is valuable and you need a professional business plan, call this guy. He's the best I've seen."

LIMS Leap - Ludington, MI
LIMSLeap implements and integrates Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). Cayenne Consulting developed a business plan, financial forecast, and investor presentation to support the company's merger and acquisition activities. "Jim has been a God-send for us. I could not possibly have asked for a better consultant to help me with this plan," said Ola Kvalvaag, President and CEO. "I am getting such good feedback on this plan that it is almost a distraction. Investors spend more time interviewing me on where we found Jim and if they can use him for some of their other projects."

M.A. Young & Associates - Mesa, AZ
MAYA offers the only truly enterprise-grade system for managing geospatial data for organizations such as utilities (electrical, water, gas, cable, telecom, etc.) and municipalities. Cayenne Consulting developed the company's business plan, financial projections, and investor presentation. The company's CEO, Richard Lopez, said: "Cayenne worked with our team to help us define a meaningful and defensible niche in the broader GIS marketplace. The business plan clearly defines our differentiation from competitors, and the financials incorporate a flexible and comprehensive revenue model. This process truly changed the way we think about our business, and we're excited about our future."

MiNO Wireless - Santa Clara, CA
MiNO Wireless offers enterprise-class international mobile call management, providing businesses with full visibility, control and management of their international mobile calling costs. MiNO Wireless users can call internationally from any landline or mobile phone through its easy to use MiNO Enterprise for BlackBerry service, and be quickly and easily connected to their international contacts at a fraction of today's international calling rates. "The business plan, financial forecast, and presentation that Cayenne developed enabled us to raise $7 million from leading venture capitalists including Canaan Partners," said Jing Liu, Founder and CTO. "Cayenne was very professional, and we were very happy with the results."

Moani - Scotts Valley, CA & Singapore
Moani develops rich media management and control .NET web service solutions for internal and external corporate communications. Cayenne Consulting developed Moani's business plan, marketing materials, and investor presentation, and contributed to the development of the financial projections. "I've worked with Akira on a variety of ventures over the past several years, and have been very impressed by his work. His business plans and financial models are among the best that I have ever seen, and I've seen hundreds. Any company trying to figure out how to get going would do well to have Akira's help," said Damon Danielson, President and CEO of Moani.

Morpho - Tucson, AZ
Morpho develops sophisticated pattern recognition software solutions for the security, satellite-based terrain analysis, and biotechnology markets. Cayenne Consulting developed Morpho's business plan, financial model, and an investor presentation. "Akira helped our company craft an incredible business plan and pro-forma financials. I consider him to be the very best all-round business planning specialist I've had the pleasure of working with in my ten years as a business owner. I have recommended him to other CEOs growing their businesses," said Stephen Buchmann, CEO of Morpho.

MyRaptor - San Francisco, CA
MyRaptor was a procurement optomization software platform for "hidden attribute" markets, where the price (and other attributes) are dynamic, and one party had a knowledge advantage over the other. An example of such a market, and MyRaptor's initial target market, was Priceline.com, where Priceline knew how low it was willing to drop its price, but made it impossible for buyers to figure out what that price was. By acting as an intermediary between consumers and Priceline, MyRaptor could capture success and failure data and apply artificial intelligence techniques to devise optimal bidding techniques.

Mystic Media Inc. - VisitNewEngland.com - Warwick, RI
Mystic Media is the publisher of numerous online tourism properties, specializing in New England. Cayenne worked with Mystic Media to develop the business plan and financial forecast for growing the VisitNewEngland.com property. "Our work with Cayenne was a great collaborative effort," said Jonathan Lhowe, President of Mystic Media. "They provided the expertise we required to build financial models and a succinct, professional plan."

nForceNet - Santa Cruz, CA
nForceNet is developing web enabled software for the global law enforcement community. Cayenne Consulting developed financial projections for the company and made significant contributions to the business plan and investor presentation.

Phillips Development & Realty - Tampa, FL
Phillips Development & Realty is a real estate development firm with a project portfolio of over $470 million. The company focuses on large-scale residential and commercial projects located near universities, medical centers and large companies. The company asked Cayenne Consulting to prepare a business plan to help it attract new investment. "Cayenne listened closely to our needs and helped us develop an effective business plan, which we've already presented to investors. Their use of graphics helped bring our business plan to life," said Jack King, Vice President of Operations.

piXlogic - Los Altos, CA
piXlogic has created a patent-pending image analysis and search solution that visually identifies the content of digital images and videos. Their technologies do for images what search engines and document management systems have done for text-based documents. Cayenne Consulting developed the company's executive summary and financial model, and assisted in the preparation of their business plan.

Playinteractive - Scottsdale, AZ
Playinteractive is a video game publishing company, currently developing a series of games based on NBC's blockbuster Fear Factor reality television shows. Cayenne Consulting created Playinteractive's business plan, financial forecast, and investor presentation.

RedPoint Technologies - Washington, DC
RedPoint develops and markets integrated security and management solutions for wireless networks. The initial product offers the highest available level of wireless security while preserving past investments in older wireless networking equipment. Cayenne Consulting developed the company's business plan, financial forecast, and investor presentation, and helped the founder expand the management team.

Regenesis Biomedical - Scottsdale, AZ
Regenesis Biomedical develops and markets a unique line of wound care technologies that use radio-frequency stimulation to speed wound healing by 50%. Cayenne Consulting developed their business plan and financial projections. "The new business plan explains twice as much in less than half the words than our old plan. And the flexibility, robustness, and completeness of the financial model is incredible," said Mary Ritz, President of Regenesis Biomedical.

Single Touch Interactive - San Diego, CA
Single Touch offers mobile 3G (data centric) phones targeting consumer groups with a common affinity for popular interests, such as fitness, travel, finance, golf, wrestling, or NASCAR. STI has or is developing numerous exclusive co-marketing, content, and branding agreements with media companies and enthusiast organizations such as Primedia, Men's Health, Prevention, World Wrestling Entertainment, Motorsport, and Butch Harmon. "We were under a tight deadline for a meeting with an investor. Cayenne Consulting delivered a high quality business plan and financial model in only nine days. Simply amazing," said Chris Brunner, VP of Business Development for Single Touch.

StormWall Systems - Phoenix, AZ
StormWall Systems is a manufacturer of wall and ceiling systems for commercial and residential construction. The Company's flagship product, SWS Panel, is a structural panel which can withstand earthquakes and extreme wind up to 250 mph. Its product reduces the need for dry wall and plastering, and provides builders with substantial construction time and cost savings. The company sought investment to launch in-house manufacturing operations and asked Cayenne to help prepare its business plan. "Cayenne delivered a first-rate, professional-looking business plan. They helped us understand our market dynamics, develop our financial projections and assess our investment requirements. Thanks for a job well done." said Scott Graham, CEO of European Operations.

studyloft.com - Chicago, IL
studyloft.com provides a 24/7 online tutoring service, with state-of-the-art eLearning technology and a team of professionally trained and experienced eTutors. "Cayenne Consulting's financial model made a complex situation tractable. We are using it both for planning and investment purposes," said Bikram Roy, CEO.

SynCardia Systems - Tucson, AZ
SynCardia Systems develops, manufactures, and markets the CardioWest Total Artificial Heart systems for use as a bridge to transplant in patients with end-stage heart failure. Cayenne Consulting developed SynCardia's business plan, financial forecast, and website. "The materials that Cayenne created for us enabled us to ultimately close several large rounds of financing and reach where we are today," said Dr. Marvin Slepian, co-founder and Chairman of SynCardia.

TrafficPayment - Midland, TX
TrafficPayment provides an award winning and patent-pending web-based proprietary system enabling municipal governments to accept and process traffic citation payments online. Cayenne developed the company's business plan, financial forecast, and investor presentation. Ryan Roberts, VP of Marketing, said "I definitely liked the amount of time our consultant spent communicating with us. He went the extra mile to understand our business model by keeping in constant contact with us throughout the entire process. Professional, Knowledgeable, Talented, Capable, Helpful... these words all come to mind when talking about Cayenne."

TransWorld Med Corporation - Charlotte, NC
TransWorld Med has developed an innovative technique for monitoring tissue rejection among heart transplant recipients. This technique overcomes serious problems presented by currently available techniques. Cayenne Consulting developed the company's business plan, financial projections, and investor presentation. The company's CEO, Dr. Charles Richardson, M.D., said: "We were amazed by how Cayenne helped us crystallize our value proposition and our competitive advantages. Their research turned up important data even we weren't aware of. And the financial forecasts blew our accountant away. We would recommend Cayenne Consulting to anybody who needs sound advice."

UltraGuide - Denver, CO
UltraGuide develops advanced guidance systems for interventional radiology. Cayenne Consulting developed UltraGuide's business plan, and made significant contributions to the company's investor presentation and financial projections. "Feedback from investors has been extremely positive. We would recommend Cayenne Consulting to any early stage company seeking venture capital," said Mike Sims, CEO of UltraGuide.

Vested Capital - Los Angeles, CA & New York, NY
Vested Capital's client, a large national organization with millions of members, is implementing an e-learning system to offer professional development training to its members. Cayenne worked with Vested Capital to develop the business plan and financial forecast for the new venture. "Cayenne thoroughly researched the issues at hand and provided us with a high quality, visually appealing package," said Walter Allen, a Partner at Vested Capital.