Founder
Every build outlasted the construction. Every system still runs.
Alex Buriak's first institutional build opened at the University of Pittsburgh in 2008. He proposed it, modeled it, and walked it through accreditation as an undergraduate. The Physician Assistant Program is still operating today, eighteen years later — through three university administrations, two recessions, and a pandemic. That's the pattern. The build outlasts the builder.
The diagnostic instinct that produced that first build came from years of high-consequence pattern recognition. He trained as a critical care paramedic and served on American Heart Association research that contributed to the national CPR guidelines. He earned his Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine while serving simultaneously as Student Body President and Student Class President, graduating with the Joseph Janse Outstanding Graduate Award. In clinical practice, he identified the signature of an undiagnosed cancer from a patient's file, read the scans himself, and called MD Anderson Cancer Center directly — advocating until an attending physician agreed to see his patient the same day. MD Anderson subsequently invited him onto their tumor boards.
He moved into private lending in November 2014 on a specific thesis about capital: in any gold rush, the people who provision the expedition get paid either way. As a loan officer at Jet Lending from 2014 through 2019, he personally closed 630 loans — a production rate well above the industry norm. He returned as Senior Vice President in late 2019 and led operational architecture through 2025: the CRM, the sales process, the digital playbooks, the team training. All of it is still operating today.
In 2025 he joined the development team behind CoreBrain and JT1 AI as Senior Managing Partner at AI Agency Group — deployed in seventy-two countries with one hundred and two global partners — and opened Iron Rock Consulting to deploy that infrastructure into the industries he knows from the inside.
“Every build outlasted the construction. Every system still runs. The point was never the diagnosis. The point was always what we built next.”
What's still running
2008 →
University of Pittsburgh
Physician Assistant Program · Proposed, modeled, accredited as undergrad
2014 — 2019
Jet Lending — Loan Origination
630 loans closed personally · Production well above industry norm
2019 — 2025
Jet Lending — Operational Architecture
Senior Vice President · CRM, sales process, playbooks, training
2025 →
AI Agency Group — CoreBrain & JT1 AI
Senior Managing Partner · 72 countries · 102 global partners
2025 →
Iron Rock Consulting
AI implementation & capital workflow service
Affiliations & recognition
AAPL
Recurring author, The Private Lender
American Association of Private Lenders Book of Mentors
MD ANDERSON
Invited Tumor Board Participant
Cancer Center · Houston
NUHS
Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine
Joseph Janse Outstanding Graduate Award · Student Body & Class President
U PITT
Emergency Medicine · Medical Sciences · Biology
Critical Care Paramedic · AHA CPR research contributor
PUBLISHED
The Private Lender · Think Realty · Think Magazine
Trained at the Black Swan Group