// Team
Two engineers. Two continents. One bar.
A small, elite team with complementary backgrounds: applied AI and mission-critical data architecture out of Las Vegas, partnered with elite IDF intelligence backend engineering out of Israel.
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Herbert Mischel
CEO & Chief AI Officer
SBIR-CLEARED
SOROS · 8 YRS
SAC / POINT72 · 5 YRS
FAA PILOT
HARVARD EXT.
Herbert brings a rare combination of hedge-fund data leadership and applied AI innovation. 25+ years on Wall Street — including 8 as Lead Data Architect for George Soros and 5 as Head of Database Architecture at SAC Capital (Point72) — with engagements at Citadel, Mizuho, Bankers Trust, and JP Morgan, running mission-critical trading and risk infrastructure with zero downtime tolerance.
Today he architects the AI systems behind the company's defense and media work — including an SBIR-cleared search-and-detect platform for the Department of Defense, Stable Diffusion video pipelines used by Hollywood studios, and a proprietary one-shot detection framework that requires no training data.
Based: Las Vegas, NV
Email: hmischel@revivalt.com
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Miriam "Molly" Mischel
Chief Technology Officer
IDF UNIT 81
ISRAEL SECURITY PRIZE
CLOUD & DEVOPS
PENN STATE
Backend engineer and systems specialist forged in Unit 81 — one of the IDF's most selective technological intelligence units. Sole architect of a mission-critical IoT monitoring and retention platform serving real-time field-device telemetry into the war room, on Azure with Docker, Kubernetes, and the ELK stack.
Contributor to a joint Israeli Air Force operation later awarded the Israel Security Prize for its impact on national security. Brings the always-on DevOps, real-time data-pipeline, and high-traffic secure-data-transfer expertise that turns research-grade AI into systems that don't fail.
Based: Herzliya, Israel
Stack: Python · Ruby · Azure · K8s · ELK
// Systems we've built
The portfolio.
Production AI and data systems shipped for the U.S. Department of Defense, Hollywood studios, and the world's largest hedge funds.
◆ DoD · SBIR-cleared
AI Search-and-Detect for Battlefield Intelligence
Architected and delivered a next-generation AI search-and-detect platform that successfully passed the Department of Defense's SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) process — qualifying it for real-time battlefield intelligence and decision support. Engineered for low latency, high reliability, and adversarial robustness, translating research-grade models into hardened operational deployments.
Process: Cleared SBIR evaluation
Status: Operational
● HD Remastering · Restoration
Film Restoration & HD Remastering Suite
Going back to the original camera negative to rebuild every frame. AI-driven cleaning of dirt and scratches, color reconstruction, 4:3 → 16:9 reframing, archival-grade preservation, and recreation of destroyed special-effects shots. Plus Stable Diffusion pipelines for in-scene object replacement — branded props, ads, and assets — temporally consistent with no flicker.
Pipeline: Negative scan → AI restore → masterTech: Diffusion · LoRA · optical flow
▲ One-Shot Detection
Proprietary No-Training Detection Framework
Invented and deployed a one-shot detection framework that recognizes objects and patterns immediately — without labeled datasets and without retraining. Eliminates the data-collection bottleneck that kills most computer-vision deployments before they ship.
Training data: None requiredDeployment: Immediate
▶ Diligent Systems · 15+ yrs
AI Film Restoration & Remastering
Founded Diligent Systems and personally wrote the entire stack — UI, services, Linux/Python/Cython modules, AI training, and SQL backend. Used by Hollywood to remaster Sex and the City, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, portions of Friends, and many more. Frame-level defect removal, upscaling, color reconstruction, FX lifting, blue-screen back-plating.
Founder: Sole engineer, full stackStack: Python · OpenCV · Azure SQL
$ Soros · SAC · Citadel
Hedge-Fund Data Architecture
8 years as Lead Data Architect for George Soros and 5 years at SAC Capital (Point72), with subsequent engagements at Citadel, Mizuho, and Blue Mountain Capital. Trading and risk infrastructure with zero-downtime tolerance — 100% production uptime for 7 consecutive years at Soros.
Soros: 60+ SQL Servers, 100% uptimeSAC: 30ms IO/ps SLA
✚ Computer Vision · On-Prem
Custom Model R&D & Deployment
End-to-end model development for teams that need more than an off-the-shelf API: data pipelines, evaluation harnesses, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, LoRA-style adaptations, inference optimization for video workloads, and deployment into hard environments — including air-gapped and regulated networks.
Scope: Research → productionTooling: PyTorch · OpenCV · ONNX
