We help organizations move from AI ambitions to value-generating systems.
The opportunity in AI is unprecedented, but the discipline of capturing it isn't. We've spent our careers helping organizations through moments of change like this—from packaged software and the web, through e-commerce and mobile, to cloud and big data.
Each of these prior shifts was hailed as the one that would change everything. Now AI is. The pitfalls and patterns are familiar, and so is the work it takes to move an organization from technological opportunity to business reality. That’s the work we do.
Operating within global behemoths like Google, Accenture, and PwC taught our founders what’s possible at scale. Building services firms of their own over the course of 25 years taught them what can happen when every engagement matters that much more. Revel Labs was created to put both lessons to work in service of the next generation of business leaders.
Today, companies under pressure to adopt AI count on us to show them how—and, just as importantly, why.
OUR APPROACH What we've learned across innovation cycles has shaped four core principles.
They guide our work and define what it means to partner with us.
Commit to the why.
Too many companies rush into the how: the technology, the architecture, the implementation plan. We start with the why: the opportunity at hand, the outcome we're after, the value at stake. We work toward it with relentless dedication and discipline.
Earn the partnership.
A true partnership outdelivers what any single engagement can. We work to earn lasting trust by acting with integrity, investing for the long term, and treating every client's success as the measure that matters.
Treat change as real work.
Most initiatives don't fail because the technology doesn't work but because the organizational change they require gets treated as an afterthought. We make it an embedded aspect of every effort—assessed at the start, activated through deployment, and reinforced over time.
Don't skip steps.
Every cycle tempts organizations to jump ahead—to deploy before defining, to scale before grounding, to declare success before outcomes can be realized. We treat the work as a sequence. Each step earns the next.
OUR TEAM Our individual stories trace our shared history.
Chad Wanless
CEO and Co-founder
Phil Jennings
Co-founder
Jason Lee
Co-founder
Dave Patterson
Co-founder
Trevor Wilson
Co-founder
Pankaj Bhadana
Managing Director
Our work relies on a tightly integrated, global team of strategy, technology, and delivery specialists.





















