Blackman Morgan Sachs Group is the AI consulting practice of Michael Hanna — 35 years across mortgage banking, fintech, and AI infrastructure. We build the assistants and agents that small and mid-sized businesses actually need, not the AI strategy decks they don't.
Michael spent two decades inside the mortgage business. Originated $350M+ in loans across Hancock Whitney, JPMorgan Chase, and First Horizon. Watched, in real time, how much of a banker's day is consumed by paperwork, phone tag, status updates, and re-keying data between systems. Built the same kind of friction-shaped scar tissue that any blue-collar contractor or law-firm partner builds over a long career.
That's the gap BMSachs fills. We're not an AI startup chasing a series A. We're an operator-led consulting practice that builds working agents in 4-8 weeks, hands them off to your team, and gets out of the way.
An owner-builder, not a sales team. When you call us, you talk to the person who'll write the code. There is no junior account exec selling you something a delivery team can't ship.
Two audiences, one craft. We work with HVAC owners and law-firm managing partners alike. The vocabulary differs; the discipline doesn't. Map the bottleneck. Build the smallest thing that fixes it. Train the team. Hand over the keys.
Private by default. For regulated industries, we deploy on-premise or in your private cloud. Your data never trains a public model. Your matter files, patient charts, and customer records stay yours.
Most AI consultants haven't actually shipped AI products. They've read about AI, taken a course, written a strategy memo. We've shipped.
Michael is the founder of JunkDNA.AI — a privacy-first identity, attribution, and orchestration platform with eight commercial verticals running on the same patented core. The same architectural patterns — identity verification, zero-knowledge proofs, agentic orchestration — sit underneath every BMSachs build for clients.
The IP backing it is real and current: one filed utility non-provisional and one PCT, together covering 42 patent claims across the JunkDNA core and its verticals. Patents pending. The point isn't the legal protection — it's that you're hiring someone who solved these problems at scale before quoting a fixed-fee engagement to solve a smaller version of them for you.
Headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Project work runs across the United States — primarily Texas, Louisiana, and the Southeast for in-person engagements, with remote delivery available nationwide.
Michael Hanna is the founder and managing principal. Boston University (Electrical Engineering & Finance), NMLS #51241 since 2007, fluent in English and French, conversational in Arabic, Portuguese, and Spanish.
The day-job mortgage practice is still active — Michael originates loans through First Horizon. He also hosts The Mike Drop Experience, a weekly podcast at the intersection of capital, code, and compliance.
The full operator profile — every venture, every project, the longer biographical story — lives at proteushanna.com.
Personal projects, side practices, and the non-profit work — the things that keep the consulting practice grounded in actual operating reality. The full lineup, with detail and history, lives at proteushanna.com.
