# Michael Montfort Michael Montfort is the organizer/manager of record for at least **three** Delaware shell LLCs tied to Arkansas data-center projects: [[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]] (the Conway developer of record), [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] (the Port of Little Rock "Project Boar" developer), and [[Spark Innovations, LLC]] (named on the Conway Project Stratus NDAs and reported as an early affiliate of the confirmed-Google West Memphis / [[GROOT LLC]] site). ## Role and affiliations Montfort appears in the corpus only as a corporate organizer of record; no employer or affiliation is established in the available records. ## Appearances in the corpus - **[[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]]** — the Arkansas Secretary of State registry lists Michael Montfort as Incorporator/Organizer and Manager of Forgelight Ventures LLC, the Conway data-center developer (primary public record, [SoS entity record](../../web%20archive/2026-05-22/sos-corp-search.ark.org/forgelight-ventures-llc-sos-record.md)). - **[[Willowbend Capital, LLC]]** — the Arkansas Secretary of State registry lists Michael Montfort as Incorporator/Organizer and Manager of Willowbend Capital LLC, the developer of the Port of Little Rock "Project Boar" data center reported to be Google's (primary public record, [SoS entity record](../../web%20archive/2026-05-22/sos-corp-search.ark.org/willowbend-capital-llc-sos-record.md)). Willowbend Capital and [[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]] are twin Delaware shells — registered in Arkansas the same day (2025-02-11), with the same registered agent, the same Delaware private-mailbox address, and near-consecutive filing numbers (811535239 / 811535247). - **[[Spark Innovations, LLC]]** — the Arkansas Secretary of State registry lists Michael Montfort as **Manager** of Spark Innovations LLC, a Delaware shell registered in Arkansas on **2024-11-25** (filing 811524872; Incorporator/Organizer **DAVID THOMAS**; same Corporation Service Company agent and 2801 Centerville Road, Wilmington DE private-mailbox building as the other two) (primary public record, [SoS entity record](../../web%20archive/2026-05-29/sos-corp-search.ark.org/spark-innovations-llc-sos-record.md), retrieved 2026-05-29). Spark Innovations is the entity named on the Conway [[Conway Corporation Project Stratus NDAs|Project Stratus staff NDAs]] (Tier-1) and is reported (Tier-3) as an early affiliate of the **confirmed-Google** West Memphis / [[GROOT LLC]] / Project Pyramid site — a Montfort shell that bridges the Conway project and a confirmed-Google site. ## Notes Montfort is the thread connecting the Conway data-center developer to the broader pattern of data-center site acquisition through Delaware shell companies in Arkansas. The Conway shell ([[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]]) and the Port of Little Rock shell ([[Willowbend Capital, LLC]]) share the same organizer-of-record, and *Data Center Dynamics* / *Arkansas Democrat-Gazette* have reported (citing two unnamed sources) that the Port of Little Rock project is Google's. Per [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] / [[D003 Synthesis]] (2026-05-24), Montfort's shared-organizer role is **suggestive but not dispositive** for identifying the Conway principal: the corpus does not establish whether Montfort is an in-house corporate paralegal (which would strengthen the shared-principal inference), a Delaware formation-firm partner (which would weaken it materially — Montfort could organize unrelated shells for different clients on the same day), or a contracted registry technician executing unrelated filings. This is one of the three bracketed open questions per [[D003 Synthesis]]'s `## What is bracketed` section. The wiki therefore does not name a Conway principal from the Montfort linkage alone. See [[The Conway Data Center Project]] and [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend]]. The 2026-05-29 discovery that a **third** Montfort shell — [[Spark Innovations, LLC]] — appears both on the Conway Project Stratus NDAs (Tier-1) and (Tier-3) as an early affiliate of the **confirmed-Google** West Memphis / [[GROOT LLC]] site was adjudicated by dialectic [[D005 Synthesis|D005]] (2026-05-29), which **reaffirmed restraint** on the Conway principal question (a stronger Tier-2 structural link, not an identification). D005 also surfaced that **Montfort's professional role is now the rate-limiting fact for the whole T003 line** — whether he is an in-house officer (which would make the three-shell cluster probative of a common principal) or a Delaware formation-firm organizer (under which the cluster proves nothing) remains the dispositive open question.