About

Christian Torres, founder of Stark Analytics.

Former NYPD officer. Nearly ten years in federal prison. A self-taught systems builder who now builds decision intelligence systems for CEOs and leadership teams.

I am uniquely qualified to talk about decisions because I have made some of the worst ones possible. I was a New York City police officer. At 21 I was arrested for a series of bank robberies, and I served nine years and eight months in federal prison, about 18 months of it in solitary confinement.

That is where I rebuilt how I think. And it is where I learned the work I still do. Inside, I built Excel tools that did what a factory's SAP system could not. No internet. No consultants. A spreadsheet and the problem in front of me.

The software covered most of the job. The decisions lived in the gap. They still do.

Today I build decision intelligence systems for CEOs and leadership teams: the tools that fill the gap between the software a business bought and the way it actually runs.

"Christian has a strong ability to take complex processes and break them down into clear, practical systems that allow you to evaluate different scenarios and outcomes..."

Jessica Lynn Silva, Google review

How we work

The question before the answer.
We are swimming in answers. Most of the work is finding the right question.
Data-enabled, not data-driven.
The tool supports the call. Your people make it.
Pressure-tested.
Every build gets the question: if this works, what breaks first?