Lend a Hand

I'm always learning. These aren't random curiosities—they're directly connected to what I'm building. If you have experience here, I'd love to learn from you.

People I'd Love to Meet

  • Creative & Automation Agency Owners
  • AI/ML Engineers (Matching Problems)
  • Two-Sided Marketplace Operators
  • Mortgage & RE Coaches
  • RE Broker Owners (Ancillary Rev)
  • Partnership Leaders in Fintech/Proptech

How You Can Help

  • Make an intro Know someone I should meet?
  • Share a resource Article, framework, or tool.
  • Challenge my thinking I'd rather be wrong and learn than confident and stupid.
Reach Out

Active Investigations

I treat my advisory and operational work like a research lab. Here are the hypotheses I'm currently testing in the market. If you have data points (pro or con), I'd love to see them.

Brokerage ancillary attach rates are an operational problem, not a sales problem.

Validation

Agents don't sell ancillary services because it breaks their flow. The system needs to capture it automatically.

Who I'm Looking ForBroker owners with >40% capture rates.

Removing the audience accelerates authentic disclosure

Hypothesis

Traditional therapy requires sessions to build trust. When there's no human, no memory, no judgment risk—people skip straight to honesty. Ikigai tests this in recruiting. What other domains have value locked behind trust-building overhead?

Who I'm Looking ForResearchers studying disclosure patterns in anonymous vs. tracked environments. Product builders in recruiting, market research, user feedback, conflict resolution.

Education-first communities generate higher LTV customers than direct marketing.

Validation

Teaching prompt engineering builds more trust than a demo. But does that trust translate to SaaS subscriptions.

Who I'm Looking ForCommunity managers tracking revenue attribution.

Post-close integration has a 90-day window before organizational resistance calcifies

Hypothesis

PE firms optimize for pre-close diligence but the real risk is post-close human integration. Employees are open and curious in the honeymoon period—miss it and they either leave or entrench. Mapping values alignment early may predict success better than financial diligence.

Who I'm Looking ForPE operating partners who've seen integrations succeed or fail based on timing. HR leaders with longitudinal data on post-merger engagement.

Real estate professionals value hyperlocal market intelligence more than national trends

Testing

Agents don't care what the Fed did—they care what's happening in Plymouth Township. Neighborhood-level content creates stickier partnerships with loan officers, and that visible value attracts other agents who want the same edge.

Who I'm Looking ForReal estate marketers with engagement data by geographic specificity. Brokerages measuring agent-LO partnership retention.

Native multimodal LLMs can classify and extract mortgage documents without specialized OCR

Hypothesis

AWS Textract is expensive at scale. Testing whether Claude/GPT-4V can handle document classification and basic data extraction at 90%+ accuracy—potentially eliminating the OCR layer entirely for most use cases.

Who I'm Looking ForEngineers who've benchmarked vision models against Textract/Azure Document Intelligence. Mortgage ops teams with document processing cost data.

In vertical B2B SaaS, community education creates an influencer flywheel that compounds

Testing

Teaching creates trust, trust creates customers, customers become advocates who teach others. The Automated LO model: prompt engineering sessions → product adoption → successful users evangelize. Paid ads interrupt; education compounds.

Who I'm Looking ForGTM leaders who've scaled vertical SaaS through community vs. paid channels. Data on CAC and LTV differences between influencer-driven and paid acquisition.