# Blackcat Informatics® Inc. > provides high end IT and management consulting services to the Alberta startup and high-tech community. We have well over 25 years of solid startup experience in executive management as well as domain expertise covering high performance and cloud computing, military-grade security, carrier-grade networking, bioinformatics, machine learning, satellite imaging, geomatics, cryptology and a variety of other boutique fields. The hallmarks of our work include minimal footprints, leveraging open source solutions, and exploiting problem isomorphisms. ## Services ### Fractional CTO high level management and guidance, executive oversight and execution. ### Development Alignment helping to bring development shops in closer alignment with the rest of the company (et vice versa), agile process tuning and development HR help. ### Solution Architecture finding elegant solutions to complex technical problems, applying sparse resources efficiently and future-proofing technology strategies. ### Cloud Navigation large scale deploys, from clusters and grids to lambdas and micro services, devops automation and helping you navigate the rapidly evolving cloud. ### Startup Process and Execution managing a path through the wilds of the startup and early-stage funding world with less pain and more success. ### Programming Golang and over 15 other languages spoken, AI and machine learning, Jupyter notebooks, spatial data analysis and bespoke esoterica. True full-stack, snout-to-tail, development. ### Corporate Engineering finding optimal corporate and team structures to streamline and focus. ## Corporate Responsibility We're committed to having a significant, positive impact in both our local and global communities. We seek the opportunity to work with organizations that measure success not only in dollars and cents but in the contributions they make to the well-being of their staff and the communities they operate in. ## Principals ### Patrick Audley — Founder. Hacker. Technologist. Analyst. A seasoned technologist who has more than twenty years of international startup experience and a broad palette of scientific, business and computing skills. He has been instrumental to numerous tech launches, acquisitions, pivots, and exits from a string of successful startups that spans telephony, high-performance computing, crowdsourcing, bioinformatics and security — over twenty-five startup launches across more than twenty-five years. Career projects span high-throughput cloud systems (an early-2010s social networking and marketing platform supporting massive concurrent counts), scientific analysis pipelines for genetics and satellite imagery, and multi-continent high-resiliency financial deployments. Patrick is currently helping organisations shape their AI and large-data strategies through the current technology inflection. Recent open-source work spans: - [git-ai-reporter](https://github.com/paudley/git-ai-reporter) — Git-driven AI analysis and reporter; keeps CHANGELOG and NEWS files up to date automatically. - [coding-ethos](https://github.com/paudley/coding-ethos) — Policy-as-code enforcement for AI agents: MCP server, CEL policies, git hooks, SARIF, and static-analysis guardrails. - [pyqa_lint](https://github.com/paudley/pyqa_lint) — Opinionated quality-assurance harness shipping a Typer-based CLI (pyqa) for Python projects. - [nonlinear-semantic-graphs](https://github.com/paudley/nonlinear-semantic-graphs) — Discovering emergent knowledge-graph relations in high-order semantic vector spaces through manifold learning and spectral analysis. - [ai-notes](https://github.com/paudley/ai-notes) — Notes for working with local models and machine-learning experimentation. - [lru_cache](https://github.com/paudley/lru_cache) — Least-Recently-Used C++ template. Patrick is an active member of the local Alberta startup and development communities and enjoys fostering new talent as well as building and shepherding companies through adventurous times. Find Patrick on [GitHub](https://github.com/paudley) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickaudley/) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4382-7625) · [patrickaudley.com](https://patrickaudley.com). ### Erin Audley, CPB — Operator. Strategist. Advocate. Steward. Our CFO; responsible for corporate finance, reporting, tax, and our operation and financial strategies, including the assessment of growth opportunities. She uses her 15+ years of accounting experience from working in industry, and at accounting firms, to manage a cadre of bookkeepers under the banner of Odds & Evens® Bookkeeping. Erin is proud to be a member of The Institute of Professional Bookkeepers of Canada. When not focusing on numbers, she's seeking out creative and intellectual pursuits such as storytelling, anthropology, astronomy, and music. ## Contact - Email: - Phone: +1-604-245-2120 - Mail: Blackcat Informatics® Inc., 112 Westbourne Rd., Spruce Grove, AB, Canada T7X 1R6 - Encrypted: (PGP key at ) - Privacy: --- Copyright 2006-2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc.. Licensed [CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/). Generated 2026-05-10T00:13:07-07:00 (deploy 6c539738ff08944941fb3c3d3bf9539079442e73).