Most enterprise software is built by engineers who have never done the job, or specified by experts who don’t build software. The result is software that demos well and fails in production.
EvahTech was founded on the premise that the hardest operational problems in regulated industries get solved when people who have spent decades inside the problem work alongside people who have spent decades building technology – not across a requirements document, but at the same table.
We identify persistent, expensive, unglamorous problems in regulated industries. We go deep enough to understand why they’ve resisted automation so far. Then we build platforms that hold up under real operating conditions – audit pressure, messy documents, thousands of SKUs, tight deadlines, and the scrutiny of people whose careers depend on getting it right.
Every product sold into a regulated market carries a paper trail behind it: CE Declarations of Conformity, FCC filings, test reports, supplier attestations (put in the top documents we have mentioned before. Each one has an issuer, a scope, maybe an expiration date, and a specific product or component it applies to.
Multiply that by thousands of SKUs, tens of thousands of components, and a global supplier base that updates its documentation on its own schedule – and the certification library stops being an asset and becomes a liability.
Shared drives, email threads, supplier portals, PDFs and more. The document exists. Finding it takes hours.
A lapsed certificate surfaces during an audit or at a customs hold - the two worst possible moments.
A supplier substitutes a component. Which finished goods are now affected? Which declarations are no longer accurate? Which markets are now at risk? Answering that question manually is a multi-week project, so it usually doesn't get answered.
You either have valid documentation for a market or you cannot sell into it. This isn't a risk to be weighted - it's revenue that is either available or it isn't.
The team doesn't. Product portfolios grow. Regulations multiply. Compliance headcount stays flat.
This is a document problem, a data problem, and a change-management problem at the same time. That’s exactly the kind of problem that needs both halves of our team.
CertManager is an AI-powered platform that turns a scattered certification library into a structured, queryable compliance system of records.
Certificates, declarations, and test reports are extracted, read, translated and classified automatically - including scanned documents and supplier PDFs that were never designed to be machine-readable.
Every document is linked to the products, components, suppliers, regulations, and markets it actually covers, so coverage and gaps are visible at a glance.
Renewal windows are tracked and surfaced ahead of time, with ownership and status attached.
When a component, supplier, or regulation changes, CertManager identifies every affected product and every document that needs to be re-examined - the question that used to take weeks.
Search across the full body of compliance evidence and produce the supporting documentation on demand, not on deadline.
CertManager is built to expand what a compliance team can cover, not to replace it. The goal is a team that can support twice the catalog, enter new markets faster, and spend its expertise on judgment calls instead of document retrieval.
Their requirements shaped the product. If it holds up for a portfolio of that size and
complexity, it holds up for yours.
EvahTech exists because these two bodies of experience are usually kept in
separate buildings.
Rick has spent decades in compliance – the practice of it, not the theory. He has lived the audits, the market-access deadlines, the supplier documentation chases, and the consequences of a missing certificate. That experience is what allows EvahTech to build for how compliance actually works rather than how a process diagram says it should.
He is responsible for making sure the product answers the question a compliance professional is actually asking, in the language they actually use.
Yianni has spent decades building technology – enterprise platforms, data infrastructure, and applied AI systems in regulated environments including healthcare and food safety. His focus is on the unglamorous engineering that determines whether a compliance platform is trustworthy: document extraction that works on real-world files, data models that survive messy inputs, and AI applied where it improves accuracy rather than where it demos well.
He is responsible for making sure the technology holds up under the conditions the work is done in.
Between them: the problem and the solution, developed together from the start.
If you’re operating inside a regulated industry and you have a persistent, expensive problem that software keeps failing to fix, we’d like to hear about it. And if product compliance documentation is that problem, CertManager already exists.
