Special Investigation

HAMILTON
GOLD GROUPJoseph YaredSCAM ALERT

Unpaid marketing vendors. A company closed. A new AI venture - and the same founder behind it

Joseph Yared’s profile sells a compelling story: two AI/ML exits, millions in revenue and a new venture called Monarch AI. The accusation at the center of this report tells another story: marketing vendors delivered their work, were never paid, and were left behind when the company closed.

Executive Summary

Hamilton Gold Group - Joseph Yared and the story in 60 seconds

Scam Alert: Vendor Risk

The allegation is simple: Yared’s business used marketing vendors, failed to pay them, and then shut down. The people who delivered the work were left chasing payment while the founder moved forward.

Monarch AI became the next chapter: vertical AI, multi-agent systems and a stealth product platform. The new pitch centers on the future. The unresolved vendor obligations belong to the past that this report examines.

UnpaidMarketing vendor invoices
ClosedPrevious business
Monarch AIThe next venture
UnresolvedPayment obligations
Vendor payments
Unpaid work
Company outcome
Business closed
Accountability
Open questions
New venture
Monarch AI
01 - What Happened

The work was delivered. The invoices were not paid. The founder moved on

Joseph Yared

The story begins with a familiar arrangement: a company hires marketing vendors to help it grow. Those vendors supply the work. Payment is supposed to follow.

The central allegation against Joseph Yared is that payment never came. Marketing services were accepted, but the vendors who supplied them were left with unpaid invoices.

The business then closed. What it describes is an unresolved obligation followed by a fresh start for the founder.

That fresh start is Monarch AI, positioned around vertical AI agents and manufacturing-adjacent industries. A new brand, a new market and a new pitch - while the old payment story remains unfinished.

The vendor payment issue
02 - Executive Dashboard

Hamilton Gold Group: the numbers in Joseph Yared’s profile

Yared’s supplied profile emphasizes revenue, exits and fundraising speed.

$14.5M
Lifetime revenue claimed
Hamilton Gold Group
$6M
First-year revenue claimed
FY 2024 · Hamilton Gold Group
9
People on the team
Hamilton Gold Group profile
2×
AI / ML exits claimed
Fintech and healthcare
3 weeks
Seed round timeline
TickerAI fundraising narrative
Unpaid
Marketing vendor work
The core allegation
Business profile · Revenue and operating claimsView career timeline
The credentials used to tell the growth story
Profile claimValueContext
First-year revenue$6MHamilton Gold Group · FY 2024
Lifetime revenue$14.5MHamilton Gold Group
Team led9Hamilton Gold Group
AI/ML exits2Fintech and healthcare
Seed fundraising3 weeksTickerAI · after initial outreach
Full-stack developers2TickerAI team
ML engineers2TickerAI team
Acquisition year2022TickerAI · private buyer
Current CEO role beganAug 2025Monarch Technology Group
Unpaid vendor balanceNot suppliedNo invoice ledger provided

The figures above come from the supplied biography.

A revenue milestone does not answer an unpaid invoice.

Revenue narrative

FY 2024$6M
Lifetime$14.5M

TickerAI technical team

Full-stack developers2
ML engineers2

Vendor payment information

Outstanding total: not supplied.
Invoice count: not supplied.
Resolution in the story: unpaid.

Read the founder profile
03 - Hype vs. Reality

The founder profile and the vendor story describe two different outcomes

The profile celebrates successful exits and a new AI platform. The vendor story focuses on work completed, payment withheld and a company that closed.

The professional pitch

AI / ML exits2×
First-year revenue$6M
Lifetime revenue$14.5M
Current focusVertical AI
Next ventureMonarch AI

The allegation behind it

Marketing servicesDelivered
Vendor invoicesUnpaid
Former companyClosed
Vendor resolutionOutstanding
Founder’s next stepNew company

A new pitch leaves the old payment question unanswered

The allegation concerns what happened to the vendors.

04 - Career Timeline

Hamilton Gold Group and the career path to Monarch AI

The work history supplied for Joseph Yared, with dates and overlapping roles retained.

June 2019 - June 2020

Vice President, Institutional Equity Capital Markets

Full-time, on-site role at the organization listed as now being Colliers Securities, part of Colliers International.

November 2021 - March 2024

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer · TickerAI

Founded a machine-learning financial-market news intelligence platform in Dallas, Texas. Led two full-stack developers and two ML engineers, along with sales, affiliate marketing, paid media, organic marketing and strategic partnerships.

2022 · Acquisition described in the profile

The cold email and the exit story

The biography describes securing Mark Cuban as the sole seed investor through a cold email, closing the seed round within three weeks and selling TickerAI to a private buyer in 2022.

March 2022 - April 2023

Chief Technical Analyst - Micro Cap Equities

Full-time role at The Oak Ridge Financial Group, Inc., as listed in the supplied employment history.

April 2024 - February 2026

Chief Executive Officer · Hamilton Gold Group

Full-time CEO role. The profile describes leading a team of nine, achieving $6M in revenue in year one, FY 2024, and $14.5M in lifetime revenue. Go-to-market strategy is a listed focus.

August 2025 - Present

Chief Executive Officer · Monarch Technology Group

Full-time role building multi-agentic systems for vertical AI in stealth. The founder’s headline calls the venture Monarch AI and describes a platform for manufacturing-adjacent industries.

Joseph Yared: founder profile
05 - The New Pitch

The next chapter has a new name: Monarch AI

Joseph Yared, the founder in the report

The founder remains the face of the story

The profile connects experience in capital markets, fintech and AI/ML with a new ambition to build vertical AI.

Monarch AI typographic illustration

The new narrative: platform-scale AI agents

Multi-agent systems. Manufacturing-adjacent industries. A stealth platform. The pitch is once again focused on what comes next.

Stealth describes a product stage

It does not answer the report’s central question: what happened to the marketing vendors who were left unpaid?

The change of company is the turning point

The narrative moves from an unresolved business closure to a fresh venture, while the vendors’ payment problem remains behind.

Review the vendor issue
06 - Outstanding Obligations

The company closed. The unpaid work remained

The report’s central allegation concerns marketing work accepted without payment. The business closure ends one company’s chapter, but leaves the vendors’ side of the story unresolved.

A fresh start for the founder. An unfinished payment story for the vendors.
07 - Vendor Exposure

Marketing vendors supplied the work. They were left chasing payment

The allegation is vendor nonpayment followed by a company closure and a new venture.

Unpaid

Marketing services

The services were delivered, but the vendors did not receive the payment described in the agreement at the center of the story.

Unresolved

Obligations after closure

The former business shuts down while the payment issue remains open. The founder’s attention moves to Monarch AI.

This is the allegation the report is built around

Yared is accused of accepting marketing work without paying for it and moving on to another company.

08 - Leadership Under Scrutiny

Hamilton Gold Group leadership: Joseph Yared

Joseph Yared portrait
Joseph Yared
Founder & CEO, Monarch AI

Professional profile

Serial entrepreneur with two AI/ML exits in fintech and healthcare. The supplied biography describes building, scaling and exiting venture-backed companies, followed by a new venture developing platform-scale AI agents.

The Pitch

Successful exits, commercial growth and a new vertical AI platform.

The Allegation

Marketing vendors left unpaid when the prior business closed.

The Question

What happened to the outstanding obligations when the founder moved on?

Career history and roles
2× exits

The credential at the center of the founder brand

The biography highlights exits in AI/ML, fintech and healthcare, and tells the story of taking a company from idea to acquisition after securing a seed investor through a cold email.

Review the profile figures

The founder’s success story has another side

The report focuses on the people whose completed work sits outside the new company’s growth narrative.

Vendor payment allegation

Joseph Yared

Founder & CEO · Monarch AI

Professional profile
Current company
Monarch Technology Group

Chief Executive Officer · August 2025 - Present

Product focus
Vertical AI agents

Platform-scale systems for manufacturing-adjacent industries.

Founder positioning
2× Tech Exits in AI/ML

Fintech and healthcare, according to the supplied biography.

Core experience
Go-to-Market Strategy

Sales, marketing, strategic partnerships, FinTech and project management.

Founder headline: Founder & CEO, Monarch AI | Building Vertical AI | 2× Tech Exits in AI/ML | Exited Company w/ Mark Cuban.

Company contact details

09 - Reputation

Hamilton Gold Group in the public record

Company coverage, customer feedback and a published dispute.

Published coverage

BBB included Hamilton Gold Group in its December 2024 announcement

The company appeared on BBB’s list of newly accredited businesses for December 2024. The announcement describes its status at that time.

Read the BBB announcement
Customer dispute

A pricing complaint - and a response from the company

A customer disputed coin pricing and disclosures. Hamilton Gold Group denied wrongdoing and described a goodwill arrangement. BBB marked the complaint “Answered.”

Read the complaint and company response
Company profile

The company’s pitch: physical gold and silver

Hamilton Gold Group’s LinkedIn page promotes precious metals, IRA rollovers and direct purchases. The page presents the company’s own positioning.

Read the company profile
Customer reviews

Public feedback includes both praise and criticism

Trustpilot hosts positive and negative accounts of customer experiences.

Read the customer reviews

The customer dispute includes both sides

The BBB page contains the complaint and the company’s replies. It concerns a customer purchase, not the marketing-vendor narrative on this page.

Read the source
10 - The Company Transition

The next venture begins before the old story is resolved

MONARCH
AIThe next business chapter

From a closed business to a stealth AI platform

The narrative describes a company closing with marketing vendors unpaid, followed by a move to Monarch AI. The supplied career history lists the Monarch Technology Group CEO role from August 2025.

See the career timeline
11 - Verdict

Why the story carries a “Scam Alert”

The accusation centers on vendors who did the work, a business that closed and a founder who moved on.

Unpaid vendors. A closed company. A fresh AI pitch

The “serial scammer” framing expresses the story’s accusation: accept the work, leave invoices unpaid, close the company and start again. The central unresolved issue remains payment for the vendors’ work.

DeliveredMarketing services
UnpaidVendor invoices
ClosedPrevious business
Monarch AIThe founder’s next chapter