Founder

Gray Stecher

Founder and Principal Consultant · Tesray Technologies

Gray Stecher, Founder and Principal Consultant, Tesray Technologies

Gray Stecher

Founder and Principal Consultant

  • Leads scoping, build and handover on every engagement
  • B.B.A. Entrepreneurship, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • Daniels Fund scholar · PACE Entrepreneurs Program
  • Hawaii based, working with businesses nationwide

The short version

Gray came to technology from business, not the other way around. He has been selling since he was six, taught himself the tools when the courses could not keep up, and leads every Tesray engagement from the first call to the last report. The first questions on any engagement are business questions: what is the process, how often does it happen, and what does each miss cost.

The long version

  1. Six

    His parents ran a jewelry business. He and his brother made products of their own to sell alongside it, and spent the money on surfboards. He had a bank account before he was seven. When he wanted new shoes, the answer was not money. It was a lesson in how to go out and earn it.

  2. Homeschooled

    Taught by his parents while they ran the business, in a small Colorado town. Being the homeschool kid meant being picked on, and for a while he believed what he was told about himself.

  3. Fourteen

    He chose public school for himself. Not for the classes. He wanted to learn to listen, to communicate, and to prove he could excel in any room. He earned straight A’s at Mancos High School, graduating class of 33, and found the pace too slow. The school offered no advanced courses and only sent seniors to college classes. His parents made it clear he would leave the school if it did not accommodate him.

  4. Seventeen

    Started at Pueblo Community College while still in high school. Finished with 48 college credits, four short of an associate’s degree, and walked a college stage before his high school one. HOBY leadership award as a sophomore. Graduated with honors at eighteen as a Daniels Fund scholar, an award built by an entrepreneur for entrepreneurs, and one of more than $140,000 in scholarships and grants that carried him through college.

  5. Hawaii

    He moved to Honolulu to study entrepreneurship at the University of Hawaii. His freshman class was bigger than his home town. ChatGPT arrived in his first semester, and he decided this was the largest business opportunity of his lifetime.

  6. Self-taught, again

    He took the AI and software courses on offer. The tools were moving faster than the syllabus, so he learned the way he always had: on his own, from the people building the models. He built for his own life first, for nutrition, fitness, and a car-flipping side business. Then automation, as the coding models made it possible to build real systems fast.

  7. PACE

    Mentorship and funding through the PACE Entrepreneurs Program at Shidler. In July 2026 PACE awarded him its Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for exceptional accomplishment in the program. He landed his first clients while still enrolled: startups and established businesses, including law firms.

  8. Now

    Graduated in 2026 and went all in on Tesray Technologies. Alongside client work he builds with two other teams: a consumer app with AI at its core, and an AI-native physical products brand. Building products of his own is how the advice stays honest. Nothing gets recommended to a client that he would not run in his own ventures.

How we think

The tools that make this possible have existed for about three years. Nobody has twenty years of experience with them. What matters is who has spent those three years building with them every day, and who walks into your process without assuming it has to run the way it always has. That is the whole point of Tesray: business first, technology second, and no loyalty to how things used to be done.

Leading with results

Coming to technology from a business background changes the way we approach development. The first thing we do on any engagement is take the technical part out of the conversation, so you understand your own business better than you did before we walked in. Every solution is delivered in terms of real world impact rather than technical jargon. We want to make results more attainable, not create a headache.

Elsewhere

Gray shares what he has learned about AI and business, including practical advice and how to avoid the parts that go wrong. You can find more of him on LinkedIn and Instagram. How the firm works end to end is on the services page.

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