Built for the situations where no playbook exists.
SylvaQ is a founder-led Michigan advisory firm. One principal, two decades of building across six industries, and a transatlantic network behind every engagement.
Mick Stachura
Founder & CEO
SylvaQ does one thing across every domain: find the real problem, not the one you think you have, and build the system that solves it.
The firm is led by Mick Stachura, who has spent more than two decades building products, teams, and commercial structures across automotive, healthcare, defense, e-commerce, EV charging, and AI. The common thread is never the industry. It is the situation: something real needs to be built, the path is unclear, and someone has to figure it out.
That is the work SylvaQ exists for: walk into the ambiguity, find the real problem, and walk out with a working system that ships, scales, and delivers results. In the AI age that distance is measured in days and weeks, not quarters. Most advisors diagnose and hand you a report. Most operators build on someone else's plan. SylvaQ does both. Advice is cheap; execution is what differentiates us.
On AI this is a practitioner's firm, not a theorist's. SylvaQ built its own AI operating system for executives and runs its own delivery on the same AI-native methods it installs for clients.
The same pattern, across more industries than most firms ever touch.
Automotive, healthcare, defense, e-commerce, EV charging, energy, enterprise software, AI, and more. Different domains, the same move every time: find what's actually broken or missing, then build the system that solves it and keeps it solved.
Transatlantic by birth.
Mick holds dual Polish-American citizenship and operates natively in both ecosystems. That fluency is the foundation of SylvaQ's market-entry practice, and a real advantage for companies moving in either direction across the Atlantic, including defense and dual-use manufacturers.
See Market EntrySmall by design.
Every engagement has Mick directly involved. You are not handed to junior staff or managed from a distance. You work with one principal, and you get the whole Michigan and transatlantic network behind the work.
Book a meetingThree principles.
Results above all
Strategy only matters if it changes a result. Every engagement is oriented to value realized, not advice given.
Partnership, not advice
We are in the room, not on the sidelines. We bring structure where there's ambiguity and momentum where there's inertia.
Simplicity wins
We make complex markets legible, then build. Diagnose, structure, implement, measure, scale.
What SylvaQ is
- One operator who has built it before, directly on the work.
- Diagnosis first, then a system that actually runs.
- European-trained AI-native methods, US-deployed.
- A Michigan and transatlantic network behind every engagement.
What SylvaQ doesn't do
- Generic AI training with no implementation path.
- Strategy decks that never become working systems.
- Connections sold as market entry, without the structure to land them.
- Advice from a distance. Advice is cheap; execution is what differentiates SylvaQ.
Founder-led from Rochester Hills, Michigan, in the heart of one of America's most consequential industrial ecosystems.
Work with one operator who has built it before.
Tell us the problem. We'll tell you what we'd build first.