Builders · Founding team

Build with consequence.
Frontier AI.
Real businesses. Real problems.

Proven operators. AI-native engineers. Building the next generation of services from the inside.

Small team. Big ambitions. Permanent capital.

Backed by

Founders and angels from

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We're hiring

Founding engineers.

Join our elite team of builders. You'll ship the core platform alongside engineers already deep in the work — the systems every future acquisition builds upon.

The work is the intelligence layer that turns acquired services businesses into AI-native platforms — knowledge extraction, cascade resolution, constraint engines, agent orchestration. Production systems under production SLAs.

Opinionated about what compounds in production versus what looks good on stage. Architecture decisions are yours.

Read the full brief: Founding AI Engineer

Founders

Meet the founders.

The people building Dragonfly. Operators and builders who've done this before — this time, together, for the long run.

Co-founder & CEO

Ben Plummer

Sydney, Australia

Ben is the co-founder and CEO of Dragonfly. Previously CEO of Invisible Technologies, which he scaled to $160M+ revenue, 10x profitability, and 400+ staff — signing OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA and Meta as enterprise clients. Invisible was named the #2 fastest-growing AI company in the Inc. 5000.

Before that, he led the spin-out of Elemental Cognition (Bridgewater + the creator of IBM Watson) and spent a decade inside Bridgewater Associates working with Ray Dalio and the firm's Co-CEOs across research, client service and firm-wide strategy. Started his career at EY's advisory practice.

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Co-founder

Misha Saul

Sydney, Australia

Misha is the co-founder of Dragonfly. He brings 15 years of M&A, private equity, and technology investing experience. Most recently a Principal at Allegro Funds ($2bn+ AUM), where he focused on turnaround and partnership acquisitions across a range of service industries.

Before Allegro, Misha was an investor at Potentia Capital ($2bn+ AUM) focusing on technology buyouts, and EVP ($300m AUM) focusing on growth investing. He has deep expertise structuring complex deals across sectors and is the architect of Dragonfly's acquisition strategy.

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Why Dragonfly

Frontier AI. Inside the businesses we own.

Most AI work ends at the demo. Ours doesn't. We deploy the frontier inside operating businesses — live customers, live decisions, live P&L — and every cycle makes the next one sharper.

The work01

Frontier work.Real stakes.

Every system you build runs against real operations, real revenue, real customers. Feedback loops measured in days — not quarters.

The structure02

Permanent capital.Built to compound.

No fundraise treadmill. No exit pressure. A horizon long enough for the platform to compound across every acquisition.

The stake03

Founding equity.Asymmetric by design.

Operating cashflows plus venture upside in a firm built to be huge. You earn more and dilute less than a regular startup.

The room04

Small, elite team.Autonomy, not permission.

Founders, engineers, and operators who've built and scaled companies of consequence. Flat team, no committees. The decision is yours and the outcome is yours.

Who builds here

Small team. Big ambitions.

Dragonfly will be a small team for a long time. That's deliberate. Four traits — and every hire has all four. The rest is noise.

Builders, not observers.

Founders, founding engineers, and senior operators who have shipped things that mattered. What you've built counts more than where you trained. You own the pager, not just the plan.

AI-native, not AI-curious.

You've built with LLMs in anger — not a weekend course. You ship with the frontier, because you chase it. You read, tinker, rebuild on the weekend.

Long-term greedy.

Equity over salary. Decades over quarters. Willing to do the unglamorous work for ownership in something that could matter in fifty years.

Low ego, high bar.

Direct feedback goes both ways. You're willing to be wrong and hold the room to the same standard. Special forces, not infantry.

How we work

Four principles. Not exceptions.

Not aspirational values. Operating principles — how we decide, how we ship, how we pick each other up.

Frontier mindset.

We work where certainty doesn't exist yet. Ambiguity is the job. The map is what we're drawing.

Own the outcome.

Capital at risk. Execution in the field. If we won't own the result, we won't do the work.

Velocity with intent.

Move early and decisively — not to be fast, but to learn faster. Speed matters when it compounds advantage.

Embedded by design.

Transformation lives inside workflows, incentives, and decisions — never alongside them. Proximity is the unfair advantage.

Build with consequence.Frontier AI.Real businesses. Real problems.