Work With Me
I take on a small number of outside engagements alongside my own products. Two kinds: building your product end to end, and advising on AI, from product strategy to corporate adoption. Either way, you work with me directly. There’s no firm behind this page and no team that gets assigned to you after the first call. I do the work.
I do this because I like it, not because I need the work. The products keep me busy and paid, so I’m not taking gigs to fill a pipeline. The flip side: I’m selective, and my time isn’t cheap. If the project isn’t interesting or the economics don’t work for either of us, I’ll pass.
Building your product
You bring the idea and the vision. I build the product: design, code, infrastructure, deployment, and the unglamorous parts that turn a demo into something people can use and pay for. Working software in weeks, not a deck about software in months.
This isn’t a bet on a new workflow. It’s how I already build. Since May 2026 I’ve been shipping a product a month, alone: Gatherd, Wavemaker, Splatchat, and Waverunner are live, with Vidiyo in beta behind them. Each one is real and usable, built solo in weeks with AI doing what used to take a team. Before that I spent twenty years building products the old way, with hired teams and quarters-long roadmaps, so I know exactly what the difference is worth.
One condition: I build alone. Not because I can’t work with a team. I ran a fifty-person Inc. 500 consultancy, and hiring teams to finish my products was my default for two decades. Solo is where the speed comes from. Every person added to a project adds communication overhead, meetings, and drift between what’s in your head and what ships. One builder means one coherent architecture and one person to hold accountable. If your project genuinely needs a team from day one, I’ll tell you that in the first conversation and point you somewhere better.
Advising on AI
For founders, executives, and companies working out what AI changes for their business and how to put it to work. On the product side, that’s what to build versus buy, and where models belong in your product and where they don’t. On the organization side, it’s adoption and process: which workflows to redesign around what models can actually do, and how a team’s job changes once the tools are in place. I also help leadership separate useful tools from vendor theater, a call I can make honestly because I’ve sold AI from the other side of that table.
The advice comes from shipping with these tools every day, not from reading about them, and it started long before the current wave. As a Presidential Innovation Fellow I built neural nets for image recognition and document classification at the National Archives, back when that meant hand-coding models in Caffe because TensorFlow and pre-trained models didn’t exist yet. Remixd put AI in production at scale in 2018, and I run AI platforms at Adwave now.
Format depends on what you need: a one-off working session, an ongoing corporate advisory role, or a hands-on prototype that settles an argument faster than a slide deck would.
How I like to work
- Directly. You talk to the person doing the work. Questions get answered, not relayed.
- In short cycles. You see a working version early and often, not a status report. Software is the status report.
- With honest scope. I’d rather cut a feature than ship a fake version of it. If something is a bad idea, I say so before you’ve paid for it.
- You own everything. Code, infrastructure, accounts, keys. When we’re done, nothing about your product depends on me.
What I’ve built
The longer history is on the about page. The recent work is the product-a-month run: since May 2026, a new product every month, each one built solo with AI.
- Gatherd (2026). Party invitations that arrive as text messages. AI-generated artwork, RSVPs and guest questions handled over SMS. Live.
- Wavemaker (2026). AI video generation from a URL, topic, or prompt. Part of Adwave. Live.
- Splatchat (2026). Video chat with AI characters, with an API and MCP server for developers. Live.
- Waverunner (2026). Multichannel performance advertising from a single URL. Part of Adwave. Live.
- Vidiyo (2026). Run your own free 24/7 streaming TV channel on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, iOS, Android, and the web. In beta.
Before the run:
- Adwave (2024–present). Co-founder and CEO. AI platform making TV advertising accessible to small businesses.
- VideoByte (2020–2023). Connected TV advertising platform. Eight-figure revenue in under three years, acquired by Kargo.
- Remixd (2018–2021). AI text-to-audio platform, acquired by Global UK.
- Intridea (2007–2015). Ruby on Rails consultancy, Inc. 500, acquired by Mobomo. Years of building other people’s products, which is most of what this page is offering.
- Presidential Innovation Fellow (2013–2014). One of 18 selected nationwide. Applied deep learning to digitize historical documents at the National Archives.
Where I’m not the right fit
- Staff augmentation. I don’t embed in your team or work inside your existing codebase alongside your developers. The solo model is the product.
- Long-term maintenance contracts. I build things and hand them over in a state one person can run. I’m happy to stay available for questions, but I’m not your ops department.
- Equity-only or exposure deals. I already have my own bets, and I like this work too much to pretend it isn’t work. If the project can’t support a real budget, it isn’t ready for outside help yet.
- Work that needs a team on day one. Heavy compliance regimes, 24/7 operational commitments, systems at a scale where one person is an irresponsible single point of failure. Some projects are like this, and pretending otherwise would waste your money.
Get in touch
Email [email protected] and tell me three things: what you want to build or the question you’re wrestling with, where it stands today (an idea, a deck, a prototype, a running company), and your timeline and rough budget. You don’t need a spec. Some of the best projects start as two sentences and a link.
I read everything and reply to anything serious. If I’m not the right person, I’ll say so and, where I can, point you at who is.