// BEYOND THE CODE

The Humans Behind
the Engines

Everyone celebrates the leap. No one prepares you for the year you land on your face and keep walking.

A company is not built by a product roadmap. It is built by the people who keep showing up when the roadmap is wrong, the bank account is tight, and the path forward is unclear.

Everyone on this page has been through the real version of that. We have 286 DealVue customers, an NSC Top 10 award for SafetyVue, and enterprise deals in progress. None of that happened in a comfortable straight line. These are the people who made it happen anyway.

— Tim Wolter, Founder & CEO

Two companies, one family, and the people who ship the work.

AVANTVUE LABS

THE ARCHITECT

Tim Wolter

Founder & CEO

Fifteen years running industrial and construction operations before founding AvantVue. When no vendor would build what the field actually needed, he built it himself — Axion AEOS™, the engine now running every AvantVue platform. Then he built SafetyVue on it. Then, while raising SafetyVue's round, he built DealVue on the same engine — 286 customers within seven months of incorporation. Entrepreneur in Residence at Amplify Louisville, National Safety Council Top 10 honoree, author of ‘The Last Year,’ and the guy who will tell you not to buy AI if you don’t need it.

Founder & CEO, AvantVue Holdings
Architect of Axion AEOS™, SafetyVue® & DealVue®
Entrepreneur in Residence, Amplify Louisville
Excellence in Technology for Leadership Award (2025)

THE FIDELITY

Derek Gough

Quality & Reliability Lead

Derek's job is to break our software before customers can. Every release across DealVue, SafetyVue, and Axion goes through him — edge cases, stress tests, and the “what happens if a foreman with gloves on taps the wrong button” scenarios that only someone who’s worked real sites thinks to try.

Ecosystem Friction Fighter & End-User Fidelity Anchor
Veteran Gates Expert Across Web, Mobile, and Desktop Software Architectures
Decade-Long History of Navigating and Structuring Technical Deployments
Uncompromising Standards Guardian for Real-World Field Utility

SAFETYVUE

WBENC-certified women-owned business

THE SIGNAL

Chelsie Wolter

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

Chelsie came to product from nursing — years of watching what happens when systems fail the people inside them. She’s SafetyVue’s majority owner, its operational anchor, and an active NAWIC member who led the company’s WBENC certification. She is the voice of the customer and the reason the product is built by and for the professionals who use it.

Chief Product Officer, SafetyVue®
NAWIC Member — National Association of Women in Construction
Architect of SafetyVue WBENC Certification
Voice of the Customer & Clinical UX Frameworks

THE INFRASTRUCTURE

Roger Bongers

Chief Technology Officer

Roger brings 10+ years in robotics and machine vision to SafetyVue’s hardest problems — real-time hazard detection, XR smart-glasses integration, and computer vision that works in job-site dust and glare. He’s the reason Vera AI sees what a safety officer sees.

Architect of Core Multi-Layered Security & AI Substrates
Former Co-Founder of the Robotics Innovation Group (Conestoga)
Director of a High-Integrity Codebase Spanning 13+ Developer-Years
Technical Lead for Global Cloud and Embedded System Topologies

Small team. Two award-winning platforms. Zero people whose job is making slide decks.

THE SILENT INFRASTRUCTURE

In Honor of
"The Hidden Partner"

True authorship requires recognizing the foundational forces that keep the engine warm when there is no audience. There is a vital part of our operational core who chooses to remain unnamed—a sovereign choice respected due to external sensitivities.

"Your fingerprints are deeply embedded in every line of this journey. This mission does not scale without your defiant continuity."

A Perpetual Record of Dedication

The Standard of the Arena

Respect

// For Honest Labor: From jobsite sweat to clean code in the dark.
// For the Invisible Team: The crews who endure the heavy cost without the spotlight.
// For Ourselves: We refuse to turn our mission into an act for a check.

Don't Give Up

// Facing the Bull: Study exactly what threw you so you survive the next ride.
// Defiant Continuity: The quiet choice to take one more step when quitting is reasonable.
// Absolute Tenacity: Setbacks are required friction to refine the spine of the company.