About VS Merlot

VS Merlot (VSM) is headquartered in Ruston Louisiana on the campus of Louisiana Tech University. VS Merlot is developing AI-Driven solutions and services for software developers and companies.


VS Merlot Founder

VSM Founder: Gordon Morrison

Your computer and smartphone use technology made possible by VS Merlots founder, Gordon Morrison.

Serious Technology

Gordons patents have been licensed by multiple companies including Intel, Apple, IBM and others.







COSA Technology

Gordons patents have been licensed by multiple companies including Intel, Apple, IBM and others.

  • One of Gordons patented technologies is COSA (Coherent Object Systems Architecture – Patent #6345387). This patent has been cited by industry leaders including: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, IBM, and others.
  • COSA is an event-driven architecture that allows control of information flow in software.
  • VS Merlot is developing an integrated development environment (IDE) that automates the implementation of COSA for software development: COSA Studio®

VS Merlot CEO - Brian Chaney

Brian has spent nearly 20 years building and transforming organizations. His career started off as an Air Force Acquisition Officer who led the transformation of the Maintenance Operations Centers from grease boards to a fully centralized automated system. He then continued his career at the Air Force Research Labs to become the Chief Information Architect.

After separating from the Air Force, Brian continued his career in the small business arena. He grew multiple small government businesses an average 150% per year. After growing TACG from 12 to nearly 400 employees and contractors, he left to grow another investment he made into Bear Walker Industries. After joining his business partner at Bear Walker as the CFO/COO Brian has been leading the design and build out of our new buildings and land. Through this transformation he has led the growth of production capacity by a 10x increase while keeping the quality of the boards the same.

He is an instrument-rated pilot who loves to use his plane for both work and personal trips. General aviation has given him a greater degree of freedom to meet with clients as well as be there for even more events for his children.  Brian Chaney serves on the National Board of Directors for The St. Clair Butterfly Foundation, a non profit working to empower children who have experienced childhood trauma through the Creative Arts.

VS Merlot Chief Operating Officer - Tom Bowman

Tom works as the Chief Operating Officer for VS Merlot. He has 25+ years experience as a practitioner in sales and marketing, business process consulting, new business development, technology development, data management and training.

Companies Tom has worked with include Apple, Microsoft, Adobe Software, Dover (Energy) as well as small businesses in fields including: technology, energy, land management, software and others.

Tom has a BS in Communication from Louisiana Tech, a Masters degree in MFT from NLU, and worked with the MRI team out of Palo Alto.

What We Do

VS Merlot specializes in software products and supporting educational/training materials for the learning and application of Temporal Engineering™ to software development.
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