// TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
Agentic intelligence for the middle market.
One substrate. Four businesses that compound.
The technology and agentic-intelligence division of Keel Merchant Bank; an AI lab for the middle market, working across every sector. Argonav specializes in agentic systems, complex data integration, and AI-powered decision-making, and understands the business beneath the industry. It runs as one platform with four businesses on a single substrate, so capability built for one compounds into the others rather than scaling in isolation. Where advisory brings the operators and capital brings conviction, Argonav brings the systems that make value creation durable.
What it does.
Embedded agentic systems
Agent systems built into how a business runs, not bolted on after the fact. Real-time intelligence and control in the operator's hands.
Complex data integration
Fragmented data pulled onto one substrate: structured, queryable, and citable, so decisions run on ground truth rather than scattered systems.
AI-powered decision-making
Decision support that closes the gap between what a team knows and what it needs to act, so leaders keep judgment and teams stay small.
Compounding capability
One platform, four businesses, one substrate. Capability built for one compounds into the others; each engagement leaves a durable system, not a deliverable.
// ARGO NAVIS
Systems that make value creation durable.
Middle-market companies across every sector that need working agentic systems rather than slideware, and comparable institutions that run on the Argo platform.
- Discipline
- Agentic systems, data integration, and AI-powered decisions
- Structure
- One platform, four businesses, one substrate
- Businesses
- Argo · Argo Studio · Argo Pyxis · Carina Research
- Leadership
- Alex Putzer (CTO) and Sean Koons (CPO), Managing Partners
- Stage
- Assessment through deployment
- Coverage
- The middle market, every sector
- Established
- 2026
- Status
- Technology entity of Keel Merchant Bank
One platform. Four businesses.
Argonav takes its name from Argo Navis, the ship the old sky charted in four parts. Each business is one of them, on one substrate, so capability built for one compounds into the rest.
Argo
The agentic operating system. The platform engine: one surface where the firm runs deals, portfolio companies, capital partners, people, and documents, with the data substrate, agent runtime, and audit trail on one code path. Built as the firm's own OS, offered to comparable institutions.
Argo Studio
What we solve for others. The product Argonav sells to companies that need to run leaner: a company brings a problem, and Argonav builds the agentic systems that solve it inside their business. The output is working software, not a deck; Argonav is accountable to the outcome, not to the advice.
Argo Pyxis
The incubator. The most selective thing the firm does: once an Argo Studio build proves a repeatable pipeline, Pyxis co-founds a company around it, born on Argo and capitalized from day one. Co-founder, not investor.
Carina Research
The research and data engine. Point it at a field and it collects, parses, organizes, and consolidates everything known into structured, queryable, citable knowledge that drives the firm's decisions. Every field it structures becomes a proprietary dataset the firm trains its own models on. Its first deployment is space.
Part of Keel Merchant Bank. Four entities. One institution.
Technology entity of Keel Merchant Bank. Not a registered broker-dealer or investment adviser.