Rival Media Kit
Official company overview, product details, leadership bios, and brand assets.
Where AI doesn't just respond. It runs.
About Rival
A marketplace where AI tools run, powered by CortexOne.
Developers publish AI functions. Organizations deploy them instantly. Every execution happens in real time across distributed infrastructure.
Think: App Store meets execution engine.
Company
Rival
Founded
2024
Headquarters
Atlanta, GA
Founder & CEO
Craig Kronenberger
Core Technology
CortexOne
Category
AI Marketplace + Execution Infrastructure
What Rival Does
Most AI products generate answers. Rival executes work.
Execution happens through CortexOne, evaluating, routing, and running workloads in real time.
AI Function Marketplace
Publish, discover, and deploy AI tools instantly
Distributed Execution
Workloads run across infrastructure in real time
Usage-Based Revenue
Developers earn every time their tools run
Enterprise Ready
Transparent cost, compliance, and performance
CortexOne
The intelligence layer behind Rival.
It evaluates every workload in real time and routes it to the fastest, most efficient infrastructure available, across models, clouds, and environments.
Instead of forcing organizations to commit to a single cloud or model, CortexOne enables workloads to run across infrastructure dynamically.
"CortexOne turns AI from a tool into an execution system."
Capabilities
Leadership
Meet the founders.
Built by operators, technologists, and infrastructure leaders shaping the next era of AI.
Craig Kronenberger
CEO & Co-Founder
A serial entrepreneur and product innovator with a track record of founding and scaling companies at the intersection of AI, data, and marketing, Craig co-founded Rival to create a marketplace where developers can publish AI tools and earn revenue every time those tools run. Prior to this venture, Craig architected Edelman's global digital practice, Edelman Intelligence, and built and sold Stripe Theory and Stripe Reputation, data-centric marketing and reputation management agencies. A committed AI evangelist, Craig is focused on building infrastructure that makes AI execution portable, transparent, and economically fair for builders.
Charlie Wardell
CTO & Co-Founder
Charlie is a veteran technologist and systems architect with 25+ years of experience building large-scale AI, data, and high-performance computing platforms. As co-founder and CTO, he leads Rival’s platform architecture, product engineering, and developer infrastructure, and is the creator of CortexOne™, Rival's intelligent execution layer that unifies heterogeneous compute behind a single routing and orchestration fabric. Previously, Charlie served as CTO at Decooda (acquired by North Highland) and was AI Strategy & Architecture Lead at DXC Technology.
Brand Assets & Guidelines
Everything you need to represent Rival.
Logos, colors, typography, and voice guidelines for press, partners, and media usage.
Primary Logo: Light
For use on light backgrounds.
Primary Logo: Dark
For use on dark backgrounds.
✓ Logo Usage: Do
- Use proper spacing around the logo
- Maintain contrast against backgrounds
- Use approved color versions only
✗ Logo Usage: Don't
- Stretch or distort the logo
- Add effects, shadows, or outlines
- Change brand colors
Typography
Primary: All text
Geist
Monospace: Code
Geist Mono
Style: Clean, modern, technical
Color System
Primary Blue
#007BFF
Dark Base
#1B1A1D
Neutral Gray
#64748B
Light Surface
#F1F5F9
Brand Positioning
"Rival is where AI runs."
Company Boilerplate
Rival is a model-agnostic AI execution platform and marketplace delivering what most AI tools miss: execution. Powered by CortexOne™, its intelligent routing layer, Rival turns AI outputs into coordinated workflows that run reliably at scale, enabling enterprises to run their business on AI, and developers to build, publish, and monetize their tools.