About Us
Many companies are data-rich but insight-poor.
Most mid-size companies sit on enormous amounts of valuable data, spread across systems and formats, with no reliable way to connect it when a decision needs to be made. Strategic decisions take too long, draw on too little information, and miss risk or leave opportunity out of reach.
The reporting that should close the gap doesn’t. A real picture of projects, finances, utilization, or subcontractor performance takes days of PM and analyst time, and still reflects only the obvious data. The rest is too hard to collect. So leaders steer with reports that are expensive, slow, and thin.
Meanwhile, the stakes keep rising. Markets are more complex. Competitors are moving faster. And the window for the right call is narrowing.
We build Enterprise Decision Engines that unify what a company knows, orchestrate AI-powered workflows across it, and deliver sourced, traceable insights in real time, so leaders can act on everything they know, with confidence they can defend.
“I believe enabling business leaders to make better strategic decisions is FactualIQ’s most important goal.”
Why we built this company
AI is moving faster than any technology in history — and its capabilities are genuinely extraordinary. But the dominant message coming out of Silicon Valley has been some version of “trust us, this will be fine.” For enterprise leaders responsible for real decisions with real consequences, that’s not good enough. Hallucinations, factual errors, and model bias aren’t edge cases — they’re structural problems that anyone deploying AI has to manage.
At the same time, standing on the sidelines isn’t an option. AI is the most powerful technology yet invented, and the organizations that learn to deploy it responsibly will have a decisive advantage over those that wait.
We built FactualIQ because we believed those two things can be reconciled. Enterprise leaders deserve to benefit from the full power of AI — without surrendering control of their data, tolerating unreliable outputs, or betting on a single model provider. FactualIQ’s Decision Engine is the platform we built to make that possible: deeply factual, data-secure, and AI model-agnostic by design.
We want AI to serve enterprise leaders —
not the other way around.
What we stand for
Factual
Ground every decision in intelligence you can trust
Secure
Protect and preserve control at every step
Strategic
Use all your data for smarter decisions
Confidence
Act faster with clarity and conviction of insight
Freedom
Designed for model flexibility and choice
Our leadership
J. Joe Ricketts
Chief Executive Officer
Joe Ricketts is an American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist. In 1974, with $12,500 he co-founded a company that would later become Ameritrade. By lowering costs and embracing technology-driven trading, Joe transformed investing and empowered millions to take control of their financial lives. In 2020, he sold Ameritrade for $26 billion.
Manuel Mattke
President
Manuel brings over 20 years of experience in enterprise software product development across finance, biotech, real estate, government agencies, and more. Manuel leads technology, business development and operations. Manuel also leads Opportunity Education, a global education foundation that helps schools to enable students to own and drive their learning.
Glenn Szerlong
Chief Strategy Officer
Glenn brings over 20 years of experience in risk management, analytics, financial reporting, machine learning, and AI-powered decision systems in the global finance sector. His career has centered on one problem: turning complex enterprise data into intelligence corporate leaders can act on with confidence. At FactualIQ, Glenn leads solution strategy and product delivery.
Our board of directors
J. Joe Ricketts
Joe Ricketts founded FactualIQ and serves as its sole investor. He leads the board, bringing five decades of experience building and governing companies, from Ameritrade’s founding in 1974 to its $26 billion sale in 2020.
Sylvie Légère
Sylvie Légère is a Canadian-born American social entrepreneur and civic engagement leader. Sylvie earned her degree in Management Information Systems at the University of Ottawa and a Master’s from Northwestern in Computer Science with a specialization in the Learning Sciences. Across a 25-year career at Accenture, JP Morgan Chase, and TD Ameritrade, she led technology, process, and change initiatives across Fortune 500 enterprises. In 2015, she co-founded The Policy Circle — a nonprofit committed to bringing women’s voices into public policy, now active across all 50 states. She is Chairman of The Policy Circle and the author of Trust Your Voice: A Roadmap to Focus and Influence.
Quinn Ricketts
Quinn Ricketts is a strategic business leader with experience spanning corporate strategy, direct investments, management consulting, and capital markets. He has held roles at the Chicago Cubs and Northside Entertainment Holdings, working across business strategy and corporate development, and at U.S. Bancorp in capital markets. Quinn holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS in Business from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He serves as President of the Urban Initiatives Associate Board and as a Board Observer for Cubs Charities.
Nick Ricketts
Nick Ricketts has experience across strategic advisory and growth investing in the TMT sector. He works at The Raine Group and supports strategic transactions involving sports, entertainment and media businesses. Nick graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a B.B.A. in Finance.