Embedded and fully dedicated. I assess the business, find the upside, and build it. One person, diagnosis through delivery.
I go wide: revenue, systems, data, operations, and the handoffs between them. The upside surfaces, including what the day-to-day buried.
CRM architecture, reporting, internal tools, integrations. Built, not recommended.
It runs without me. Documentation, training, and a map of what's next.
Every assessment ends the same way: what I'll deliver in scope, what's worth extending for, and where outside help earns its cost. You decide.
Share your challenges or ambitions. I'll tell you honestly if I can help.
Strategy and execution used to require different people. AI collapsed that. I use it to do more for one client, not to take on five. One business at a time, at a pace that used to take a team.
Not one lane. What I've actually done, and what a good engagement can cover.
Every engagement is scoped to the business.
Up to five interviews with your key people. A cohesive strategy roadmap within 72 hours of the last one. Yours to run with, with me or without me.
Fully dedicated, one client at a time. Assessment and execution in one seat. Self-sustaining at handoff.
Not sure which fits? Tell me where you're headed. I'll point you to the right door.
Built the revenue and operational infrastructure from zero during a live Nasdaq IPO: GTM strategy, $1.5M budget, HubSpot CRM, team, agency partners, and the board reporting stack, in three months.
Generated $15M in active pipeline ($2.7M ARR) in the first three months of outreach; delivered the company's first year-end board report as a newly public company.
Codes proprietary tools with Claude, running in live operations. Manages the IT & Systems Analyst, chairs the company AI Tiger Team, and oversees the full revenue technology stack.
Full operational and P&L ownership of a $3.5M Kickstarter-funded consumer-tech company with a 55,000-person community. Built new revenue channels from zero, driving $620K in sales, $80K on Amazon in month one.
Functional Chief of Staff across a $30M+ five-business-unit international portfolio, with simultaneous direct oversight of corporate marketing and corporate IT. The title wasn't Chief of Staff. The job was.
Drove six M&A transactions full-cycle: proprietary target scoring, board decks, due diligence, and end-to-end post-acquisition brand and IT integration. Unified one HubSpot CRM across five business units. Directed corporate IT as a standalone function: enterprise security stack, support desk, systems rollout across acquired businesses. 2022 Forward Motion Award, unanimously voted by all staff.
Creative lead on Kubota national advertising and commercials; launched a net-new Media Relations practice from concept through execution. The lesson that stuck: the story is the leverage. Everything since has been building the systems that let it move.
Automates network-construction solution design and quantifies deal economics before commitment.
Personalized, on-brand client materials at scale, removing manual production from the sales process.
Keeps voice, strategy, and content cohesive across a distributed team. Structured and repeatable.
Size payout, margin, and P&L impact before leadership commits. Published NOI calculator live on the web.
Clay-powered personalized campaigns: list building, enrichment, sequencing, and reporting.
Power BI dashboards from integrated operational and financial systems. Decision-oriented, not status.
Cross-functional range, technical and AI skill, relentless work ethic. Point me at the problem.
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