From validating AI SaaS products through live customer discovery to bringing in high-profile supporters for early stage orgs, I've been in the trenches locating and creating momentum for early stage startups for 6+ years.

In 2025, I worked with Porsche and JB Hunt-backed startups. I produced high-quality leads in the ICP requested and guided the ICP through customer discovery feedback. For JB Hunt, I conducted a deep customer discovery study with live data collection and produced customer discovery insights in a real volume of market data to guide product direction and select the product to focus on (and the product to kill off) for a specific ICP.

Previously, on behalf of an EdTech startup, I secured high-profile (household names, extremely relevant and highly regarded) ideal clients as officially endorsing supporters for a US SBIR grant. Grant reviewers specifically recognized the quality of the supporters I sourced and secured.

I enjoy helping companies see their product in a different light, consider different angles on customer purchasing patterns and speak to ideal customers more clearly.

Additionally, I am passionate about growth through community and strategic referral networks. I have enjoyed growing GTM-focused communities, hosting virtual pitch competitions and masterminds, and curating virtual events where founders secured accelerator and enterprise sales opportunities.

I value investing in myself as a brilliant, vibrant, creative, insightful human and take joy in doing things like writing this page completely by hand (without AI).