About
Strategic infrastructure
for consequential decisions.
Steward&Row is a permanent strategic operating layer—not a consulting firm. AI-augmented. Human-directed. Outcome-linked.
Origin
The consulting industry is a $300 billion machine built on a broken model: bill hours, send juniors, walk away with the knowledge, repeat.
Steward&Row was built on the opposite premise: what if advisory could compound? What if every engagement made the system smarter? What if structure came before strategy, and outcomes mattered more than hours?
The result is a new category—strategic infrastructure that embeds inside businesses, not consultants who parachute in and leave.
Founder
Antonio Kanonu
M&A, strategy, and cross-border operations between the US and South Africa. Based in Wyoming and Johannesburg.
Operated businesses. Closed deals. Structured acquisitions. Set up liquidity events. Owned and controlled companies totaling multimillion-dollar operations—and shut some down.
The failures taught more than the wins. Learning when to pivot, when to shut down, when a market isn't ready, when a team isn't right. These lessons don't come from textbooks or consulting decks. They come from being in the arena.
Steward&Row exists because advisory should come from operators who've had skin in the game— not analysts who've only studied it from the outside.
Operating Principles
How we operate.
Structure before strategy
Entity, jurisdiction, banking, compliance—the foundation that makes everything else possible. Strategy without structure is theater.
Embedded, not episodic
Retainers, not projects. We operate as a permanent layer inside your business, not consultants who disappear after the deck.
Outcome-linked value
Our success tied to your success. Success fees. Performance bonuses. Advisory stakes where aligned.
Decisions, not reports
You don't need more information. You need clarity on what matters, what to do, and what's next.
High intelligence, low patience
We assume you're smart and busy. No explaining basics. No padding. Precise, decisive, systems-level.
The Stack
AI-native operating layer.
Eight specialized agents handling research, modeling, drafting, and monitoring. Human judgment at the center. AI execution at the edges.