Anton Kats

Anton Kats is the founder of InstantHero, a platform that sends physical postcards to podcast audiences, and VP of Engineering at Harbr. With 20 years of experience building production software across AI pipelines, real-time trading systems, and mobile apps, he now focuses on helping businesses adopt open-weight AI models that run locally and privately, without reliance on OpenAI or Anthropic. He runs Apps for Matriarchy, a workshop series exploring ethical and sovereign AI infrastructure, and is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.