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Built on curiosity.
Grounded in real work.

Firelock has provided consulting since 2019. Based in Canton, Georgia, we work across AI, IT, software, and marketing. We bring engineering and marketing into the same room to help businesses move an idea into practice.

Troy Fortin Jr

Troy Fortin Jr

Founder · AI, IT & software

Troy created Kin and leads product and engineering at Firelock. He has spent the last several years building machine learning and generative-AI systems. At The Home Depot he grew from software engineer to senior machine learning engineer, fine-tuning Gemini models and building natural-language reporting on large language models. He went on to serve as CTO of Yellow Creek Partners. At Alta Gracia Apparel, he held operations and IT leadership roles and built the company's ERP system from scratch.

  • Chief Technology Officer, Yellow Creek Partners
  • Senior Machine Learning Engineer, The Home Depot
  • Head of Information Technology, Alta Gracia Apparel
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Raeann Fortin

Raeann Fortin

Co-owner · Marketing & growth

Raeann co-owns Firelock and leads growth. She spent more than three years in growth marketing at FinQuery (formerly LeaseQuery), most recently as Manager, Growth Marketing. Before that she was Director of Marketing at SimpleShowing, a real estate technology company, where she started out managing marketing and demand generation.

  • Manager, Growth Marketing, FinQuery (formerly LeaseQuery)
  • Director of Marketing, SimpleShowing
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A builder’s perspective

Consultants.
And people who ship.

Troy created Kin, a code repository built around connected software, and the open experiments in Firelock Labs. That experience gives us another perspective on the messy middle between a promising idea and something people can use.

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that’s holding you back.

A stuck workflow. An unfinished idea. A story that needs clarity.

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