About Veriloom
Built by someone who lived the problem.
Most software teams know the pain of AI-assisted development going sideways. Veriloom exists because its founder spent thirty years learning exactly why that happens — and what it takes to prevent it.
The worst best decision of his life.
Mike van Thiel grew up in the Netherlands, played youth football, and was halfway through an IT degree at the University of Utrecht when he applied to continue his studies in the United States. Not as a transfer student — directly into the Computer Science master's program at the University of Utah.
He got in. No bachelor's degree on his resume. He's never really explained how he pulled that off. That's Mike.
When Comcast acquired Vehix.com in 2008, he stayed on as VP of Information Technology. Stable. Senior. Well-compensated. He left exactly two years after the acquisition closed — to pursue a problem he couldn't stop thinking about.
"The worst best decision of my life."
Businesses of every size — property managers, logistics operators, mid-market enterprises — were sitting on data spread across disconnected systems. Turning it into something useful required either years of custom development or a budget most of them didn't have. Mike thought he could fix that. He left a very good job to find out.
Career Arc — Enter. Assess. Build. Fix. Repeat.
Entered as a developer. Moved into IT team management faster than most people figure out where the coffee machine is.
Led 40+ people across development, QA, and architecture. Turned around a struggling unit into something profitable enough to be acquired.
Built the engineering team and technology base. Navigated Comcast's acquisition from the inside.
Senior role at a Fortune 50. Left two years after the acquisition, on his own terms.
Replaced legacy systems, shipped mobile apps across four platforms, led the asset sale to a European firm.
Grew the engineering team to 60+. Helped drive $500M+ in annual e-commerce transactions. Led the full asset sale in 2014.
Twelve-hour days for over a decade. A bootstrapped vision that the market is finally ready for.
A decade of twelve-hour days.
What followed was over a decade of bootstrapped development and a vision the market wasn't quite ready for. Running lean sharpened things. When you can't afford to waste anything — engineering time, architectural decisions, a single bad hire — you develop a particular discipline about what actually matters in software.
Mike was building that discipline even when it didn't feel like it. Knowing what breaks, what holds, and what absolutely needs to be tested. That knowledge turned out to be the most valuable thing he'd ever accumulate.
When AI coding agents arrived in earnest, Mike recognized the shift immediately. Here was a way to build with the velocity that had always been out of reach for a bootstrapped founder. But he also saw the gap clearly: raw capability without structure produces raw, unverifiable output. Speed without discipline accumulates technical debt at speed.
"All the technical skills I spent decades acquiring? Largely irrelevant now. What matters is understanding how systems actually work. The rest you can figure out with AI."
His answer was Veriloom — a governance and orchestration platform that gives AI-assisted development the rigor it needs to be production-safe. The instinct was the same one he'd always had: connect the pieces, make it coherent, make it work at scale.
The Team — Still very much in the first innings.
Veriloom is built by a small, senior team with complementary backgrounds across software architecture, product, data engineering, and commercial real estate technology. We are not a venture-backed team optimizing for growth metrics. We are practitioners who built this because we needed it ourselves.