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If you're building something real I'm interested.

I work with founders, leadership teams, and operators who care about meaningful momentum. The work is collaborative and pointed at real problems, not more noise.

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The work, named

You don’t need to understand AI. You need someone who reads the signal.

Most owners are stuck for three reasons: the work has no name, no clear price, and the AI moment has everyone scared. So here it is, plainly. The category is intelligence infrastructure: the durable layer under your marketing and operations that makes your business easier to understand, easier to trust, and easier to grow. We find where your signal and your money are leaking, then build the system that fixes it. That’s the whole job.

Twenty years operating across global brands, VP seats, PE portfolios, and the small-business floor, lived in the field and wired into systems you can’t download, hire, or clone. I’d know. I tried to rebuild it with AI, and it couldn’t.

Three ways to work together

Hire me, partner with me, or build with me.

01 / Hire me

You need the work done

  • Diagnose where you’re leaking, then build the fix
  • The Signal Map, The Build, fractional leadership, AI adoption
  • Advisory, workshops, and speaking too

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02 / Partner with me

Let’s build it together, for real

  • A real business partnership, equity and a real stake
  • You bring the build or the client, I bring the GTM intelligence, product, and AI
  • For dev shops, founders, and agencies launching something new

Agencies say partner and mean vendor. I mean it. Not a logo on a deck.

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03 / Build with me

Come into the Lab

  • Share, learn, experiment, and figure out what’s next together
  • The intelligence and innovation meetup, research in public
  • For practitioners and the curious

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How I work

Clarity first, then momentum.

Look before you spend. Find the few moves that matter. Build it to run without you.

You don’t have to bet the budget to find out what works. Most teams I meet are stuck in the same place. Organic traffic is slipping. The ads aren’t as efficient as they used to be. They know they should be doing more with AI and have no idea where to start, and they don’t want to put out a pile of AI slop with their name on it. They know video and social matter too, but the time has to come from somewhere. Every option feels expensive and nothing feels certain.

Here’s what’s usually going on. The setup is outdated. The website, the Merchant Center, the ad accounts, the social, the data underneath it. None of it is broken. It just hasn’t been upgraded to keep up. That’s good news, because it means we don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes a rebuild is the right call. More often there’s a lot of performance sitting in what you already have.

So we start with the real questions. Where do you start? What are the three moves that matter? What do you actually do this week, this month? And when it’s time to launch something new, what’s the path of least resistance to get out the gate without burning months of time?

It’s not just about spending money smarter. It’s about spending your time and resources smarter too.

1 Look We look at what you've already got running. Site, ad accounts, social, data, the setup underneath it. 2 Find the real problem Usually it's not broken strategy. It's an outdated setup that hasn't kept up. Often less behind than it feels. 3 Pick the moves The three things worth doing now. What to do this week, this month. No wasted spend. 4 Build it Upgrade what's worth keeping, rebuild only what we have to. Tools, people, training, processes. 5 Test and learn Ship a batch, give it seven days, read what worked, feed it back in, then install the next batch. 6 Figure out how you scale Once it's working, we build the path to do more of it without it falling on one person. Hand it back working. It runs without you babysitting it. I stay reachable, and I bring in my people when it needs more than me. learnings loop back in Not just marketing. Marketing, revenue, and operations, plus the systems underneath all three.

Sometimes the question is about your people. Do I have the right team at the table? Is there a skills gap? That’s fixable. I can put the tools, training, and processes in place so your team grows into it. I learned that on the agency side. You don’t have to come in and take everything over. You come in, install what’s missing, and hand it back working.

And this isn’t only marketing. It’s marketing, revenue, and operations, plus the systems and technology underneath all three. I’ve installed EOS operating systems, built standard operating procedures, and set up the processes teams need to actually run. I’ve done it for small businesses, seed and early-stage companies, Series A startups, and global organizations integrating teams across the world.

As we build, I run test and learn. I make a set of changes to campaigns or pages, give it about seven days, and read what the data actually says. The wins feed back into the system, and then we install the next batch. You’re not guessing, and you’re not betting everything on one big swing.

Sometimes you just want a second read. Is my agency doing this right? Is my team? Is there something we’re missing? I’ll tell you straight, and I’ll do it without trashing anybody. Most teams are doing solid work. It usually just needs sharpening with what’s current.

That’s the part I can promise. I’ve spent my whole career keeping up with this industry, and I still build every day. New websites, new campaigns, new agentic systems. When I tell you what’s worth doing, it’s because I’m doing it right now.

The ladder · named & priced

Three steps. A number on each one.

Not ready for a retainer? Start with the fixed-price AI Visibility Audit, from $497, a scored report on how AI answers for your brand. Start an Advisory engagement within 30 days and the full fee credits toward your first month.

01 / The Signal Map

Find where it’s leaking

  • Fixed-scope diagnostic: demand, feed, content, site, conversion, ops
  • A plain-language map + the 3 highest-leverage fixes
  • $1,500 fixed

Start with the Map →

02 / The Build

Install the system

  • We build it and train your team, so it runs without me
  • Fractional leadership, ops, and AI adoption
  • Embedded retainer, three-month minimum · priced by scope · equity, trade, or training on the table

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03 / The Room

Keep building, together

  • Teach the read. Get your people into better seats.
  • The cooperative: learning, training, support
  • Free to join · cohorts as we launch together

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The deal is flexible on purpose. Where we start depends on what you’re building, so pricing is set by scope. The Signal Map is fixed; everything past it starts at a baseline and moves from there. Funded or scaling? Equity or project work, scoped to what you’re after. Small business? Flexible on where to start. I set up the tools, people, and systems so you’re not stuck running it alone. Early, scrappy, and serious about it? I bet on builders. Ask me how we start. There are a lot of good ways to fill a cup. Ask me about how we work together →

Just so we’re clear. I’m not an agency, and I won’t sell you anything you don’t need. My time is the most valuable thing I own, so I’m selective about who I take. Come serious or don’t come. Equity deals come with the details attached. Training and projects are paid up front. I don’t waste a moment, and I’d never waste yours.

Who I work with. I’m selective on purpose, and it’s about alignment, not ego. Privately held and family-owned businesses, mission and ethics-driven investors and foundations, and enterprise teams who want their people built up, not burned out. Small agency owners who genuinely care about their clients and their teams and want a hand training and installing, if you’re into the mission, I’m in. And my friends, and the communities I’m part of. My whole aim is to move money, belonging, and opportunity toward people helping people, their communities, and their families. That is what the work has always been for. So I don’t take on purely extractive, money-at-the-top plays, and I won’t help an agency that exists to serve the people hoarding it at the top. No shade, just a different mission. If you’re building something good and you want it in good hands, we’ll get along.

Selected work

The obvious answer is usually wrong. The system underneath is the story.

Case · E-commerce catalog

A demand drop that wasn’t

  • Looked like organic demand had fallen for 16 months. It hadn’t. The signal path had collapsed: feed disapprovals, product descriptions that didn’t match how people searched, a flat structure eating its own traffic.
  • We rebuilt the product titles around what the buyer was actually carrying, fixed the feed, and gave the catalog a structure that could be found.
  • Products that ranked for nothing started pulling real search traffic. Feed disapprovals fell from roughly 43 percent to clean.
Build · Category & market intelligence

Naming a category before competing in it

  • A discoverability play crowded with well-funded look-alikes, all using the same language.
  • We mapped the real buyer, found the wedge the incumbents missed, and built the positioning and go-to-market thesis to own a category instead of renting one.
  • The work that turns a tool into a position competitors have to react to.
More · New ventures

The library keeps growing

  • Every engagement ends with a documented read: the obvious answer, the real system, the decision it changed, the outcome it produced.
  • New work slots in as it ships. The asset isn’t any one case. It’s the engine that keeps producing the next one.
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PubCon: the search marketing industry gathered around the elephant in the room

The marketing elephant in the room

SEO, PPC, social, and CRM each working alone. A disconnected stack turns every report into archaeology and every optimization into a negotiation.

Platforms reward clean signals, not your org chart. The fix isn't another tool. It's one connected growth system where every campaign teaches the next one.

PubCon · the search industry in one room (yes, that's the elephant)

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What owners are saying

The cost shows up in plain language.

Owner quote: The phone used to ring on its own. It stopped, and nobody can tell me why.Owner quote: I have paid three people to fix my marketing. What I got back was dashboards.Owner quote: I do not need another tool. I need to stop being the thing all eleven tools are plugged into.

Composite, paraphrased from research