Beyond Riveting Team Inc.
My body is my compass.
Joy is my medicine.
Nicole Smith Cook — Founder · Systems Architect · Beyond Riveting Team Inc.
Nicole Smith Cook spent 25 years at Ford Motor Company as a program engineer, lead planner, data scientist, and Customer Insights Manager working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human experience. She holds graduate degrees in Counseling Psychology, Manufacturing Engineering, and Manufacturing Management, and carries a Six Sigma Black Belt.
She is a woman living with chronic illness — EDS, MCAS, and POTS — navigating the road with her dog Daisy and a deeply practical understanding that the body sets the pace.
In January 2025 she retired from Ford and founded Beyond Riveting™. Not as a career pivot. As a culmination.
Beyond Riveting Team Inc. was founded on a simple belief: that the people who carry the hardest stories — veterans, caregivers, survivors, those navigating invisible illness and bold transitions — deserve more than acknowledgment. They deserve action.
"We Build What Others Said Couldn't Be Done."
WITCHCORE® is the AI-assisted operational backbone Nicole built to run this mission as a disabled solo founder. It is not a public product. It is what makes everything else possible.
Nicole is an incoming Ambassador for Mid-Michigan Honor Flight — the program that brings veterans to Washington D.C. to be honored at the memorials built in their name.
She also served as a Tribute Rosie the Riveter through Willow Run Airport and the Yankee Air Museum.
The veteran seat in every Wren's Rest™ gathering is a founding commitment — not a marketing line. It exists because service deserves recognition that shows up, not just talks about showing up.
"The road forward is always worth the effort."