Andrew Phillips, founder. British-born, based in New Jersey. Two decades redesigning workflows, putting in systems, and getting teams to use them, in commercial real estate finance and data.
I spent two decades in commercial real estate finance and data: capital markets at Newmark, then building the commercial side of CompStak, SitusAMC, and LightBox. The job was the same at each. Map how the work actually happened, redesign it, get the departments involved to agree on the new way, and put in the system. Then do the unglamorous part: working with teams to help people change the way they had been doing their jobs.
In 2023 AI came into my own strategic work: research, analysis, drafting. It was good enough to change what got done, not just how quickly. By 2024 I was building the small tools I used to request.
I founded Alpine Systems in April 2025 to put the two together: operating experience in this industry, and the ability to build and connect working software. The business itself was the first engagement. It has produced 25 deployed applications, an autonomous agent running in production, and a 21-module academy.
Andrew leads every engagement and does the work himself: the mapping, the design, the build, the testing, and the training.
The code is written with AI models. The choice of workflow, the architecture, the controls, the tests, and every client conversation are not. That division is what lets a founder-led firm deliver a build for a fixed fee.
On an engagement, someone on your side owns the outcome. We agree with them on what good means, test against it, and make sure people actually work differently afterward. The custom software and your data are yours.
