Stage 2 · Proof
An operator's record, and the work in public.
Before you spend an hour with anyone on AI, check the record. Start with a client, then mine, then the work I publish every week.
From a client
The record
- Co-founded nScaled, a cloud disaster-recovery company. Acronis acquired it in 2014.Source
- Helped build the infrastructure behind TechRepublic from 1999 to 2001, as it grew past 1.5 million members.Source
- Lead architect in 2010, while at SolutionSet, on a machine learning and real-time predictive analytics application for Dell's Social Net Advocacy program.Source
- Founded Ekho, a real-time data platform that raised $1.2 million in 2015.Source
Work in public
Self-Liquidating Token Spend
You can recite the token bill. You cannot see what it returned. Here is the half nobody publishes, and how to put a number on it this quarter.
The AI Bully Problem
Most of your team hides its AI use because mocking it gets tolerated. The stigma is a training failure compounded by leadership silence, and it follows a pattern that has reversed every time for 500 years.
Progressive Agency
Everybody is calling everything an agent now. The word has stopped carrying information. Agency comes from five dials you install around a model, and you turn them one at a time.
Intercom Gave Claude Code to 1,000 Non-Engineers. Here Is What They Built.
Intercom deployed Claude Code to 1,000+ non-engineers, built guidance skills, and got 300+ weekly active users. They built exactly what Founder OS ships on day one.
AI-Native Operations
An outbound email draft published as a working note. Most AI rollouts leave the operating model untouched; the real divide is AI-native companies versus companies bolting AI onto legacy behavior.