The Founder Site of
Rick Barretto
Dreamer. Inventor. Founder. A 35-year serial-entrepreneur story — 16 companies, 8 first-in-category, 14 industries, no VC.
An open letter
Welcome! This site is a working archive of a career spent building things that had never existed — other than in my imagination — driven by a desire to create platforms and systems that help people lead happy, fulfilled lives.
Everything you’ll see here — the companies, the inventions, the press, the SkillDNA — came out of a simple belief that if you see a need and can create something that solves a problem before anyone else, build the platform that makes it possible, and let the uses invent themselves.
My hope is that some small piece of this life’s work is inspiring, interesting, or useful to you — that it sparks an idea, validates a hunch, or reminds you that you don’t need permission to build what you can already see.
Perhaps James Michener said it best:
“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.”
— Rick
Innovation across 14 industries
Not one industry. All of them.
Video Game Industry
Nonprofit / 501(c)(3)
Education / Training Academy
Hospital / Medical IT
TV / Broadcast
Post Production / VFX
3D Game Development
AR / VR / Virtual Reality
Printing / Web-to-Print
Publishing (Book)
Law Enforcement Technology
Global Licensing (Warner Bros.)
Cloud / Enterprise Architecture
AI Governance / Infrastructure
The Evolution
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Current Ecosystem
What Rick Is Building Now
Rick's current work centers on CyberHope AI and PrecognitionOS — governed AI infrastructure for accountable autonomous work — alongside a connected ecosystem.
Current Company
CyberHope AI
Developing PrecognitionOS — governed AI infrastructure for the AI-agent economy.
Flagship Platform
PrecognitionOS
Governed AI operating layer: attribution, provenance, human review, quality gates, accountable delivery.
Implementation Partner
The LAN Network
Human-led AI technology development, cybersecurity, and apprenticeship-enabled delivery.
Training + Apprenticeships
Hope Training Academy
Training and apprenticeship pathways in technology, IT, cybersecurity, coding, and AI.
Nonprofit Partner
Video Game Palooza
Nonprofit education and community-impact lineage. 2,000+ Hoosiers trained since 2018.
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