About (i)Sage
An advisory firm built on operating experience.
(I)Sage Management LLC advises private equity sponsors and corporations on strategy, governance, transformation and agentic AI. The firm owns the 9 Vectors framework and U.S. Patent 9,489,419 B2, and licenses both to TheGreyMatter.ai.
What the firm does
Advice, intellectual property and a platform.
Advisory
Private equity operating advisory, transformation, CEO and board advisory, and AI strategy, structured with the 9 Vectors.
Intellectual property
The 9 Vectors framework (nine vectors, 37 Sub-Vectors, 571 themes) and the patented method that turns it into software.
TheGreyMatter.ai
The business context layer for agentic AI, built on the firm’s method and licensed from (i)Sage in perpetuity.
The firm
Milestones.
2000
(i)Sage founded as an advisory and venture firm. It has since raised and closed a $23M venture fund.
2011 – 2012
The 9 Vectors published in two books: 9Lenses Insight to Action and Snapshot9.
2013 – 2016
The framework-driven method filed for patent in 2013 and granted in 2016 as U.S. Patent 9,489,419 B2.
2015 – 2016
Advisory to the chief executive of The KeyW Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: KEYW), including the Hexis Cyber Solutions divestiture.
2025
TheGreyMatter.ai founded on the 9 Vectors and the patented method, now 20 applications and 32 production agents.
2025 – 2026
Advisory to the executive chairman of Marchex (Nasdaq: MCHX) through completion of its integration.
2026
U.S. Patent 9,489,419 B2 assigned to (I)Sage Management, LLC and licensed to TheGreyMatter.ai in perpetuity.
Leadership
Founder & Managing Director.
Edwin Miller
Began at PSINet as employee #34. Since then, multi-time CEO of public, private-equity-backed and venture-funded technology companies, eight-time director, and the architect of TheGreyMatter.ai. Sole inventor of U.S. Patent 9,489,419 B2.
M.B.A., The George Washington University · B.S. Management, Liberty University · YPO member since 2003 · Top 25 Tech CEOs of Seattle (2025)
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