Current work

Four rooms. One discipline.

The work is the same underneath: different functions are looking at different versions of reality, and someone has to turn assumptions, data, economics, constraints, and user needs into a decision or a system that holds up. The surface changes. The move does not.

Kindness for Capital: Strategic Advisor, commercial strategy and venture development. Squirrel Space: Group Project Director.

Area 01

Commercial strategy and venture development

Problems it addresses

  • A business model that has never been pressure-tested against a real buyer or funder.
  • Pricing and unit economics that work in the deck and not in the channel.
  • A go/no-go decision nobody wants to own because the proof requirements were never written down.

Decisions I help shape

  • What has to be true for this to work, and what would prove it false.
  • Who actually pays, on what logic, at what margin.
  • What gets funded next, and what gets killed early instead of slowly.

What a useful output looks like

A short decision memo with the model, the assumptions ranked by fragility, the proof each one needs, and the kill criteria.

Area 02

AI product strategy and validation

Problems it addresses

  • An agent that demos well and cannot be trusted on a Tuesday.
  • No evaluation set, so nobody can say whether a change made it better or worse.
  • Deployment economics discovered after launch, when token spend meets real usage.

Decisions I help shape

  • Where human judgment stays in the loop and where it does not.
  • What the guardrails, usage controls, and responsible-use boundaries actually are.
  • Whether this is a product or an expensive demo, and how you would know.

What a useful output looks like

An eval set tied to real decisions, a behavior spec for the agent, and a cost model per useful outcome instead of per call.

Area 03

CPG and consumer commercial strategy

Problems it addresses

  • Pricing running on static cost thresholds against a market that moves weekly.
  • Forecasts treated as truth instead of as one input with a known lag.
  • Promotion logic and category strategy built on a buyer assumption nobody has re-checked.

Decisions I help shape

  • What the price should be this week and what triggers a change.
  • Which margin logic holds across the portfolio and which is carrying a stale input.
  • What the market signal is saying before the formal system agrees.

What a useful output looks like

A pricing or planning loop with named inputs, a cadence, and an owner who runs it without me.

Area 04

Mission-driven systems and Squirrel Space

Problems it addresses

  • Real priorities with no testable program underneath them.
  • Partnerships and sponsorships discussed without an economic model.
  • AI tools proposed for communities without checking who the default user was.

Decisions I help shape

  • Which priority becomes a program, and what test tells you it worked.
  • What a sponsorship or partnership has to return to both sides.
  • What AI literacy means in practice for people who are not going to read a whitepaper.

What a useful output looks like

A program that can be run and measured, plus working artifacts. The AI Literacy Diagnostic is one of them.

Where the discipline came from

The current work sits on the CPG proof base.

Pricing across a roughly 95M-lb portfolio. An elasticity answer derived from owned data instead of licensed from a vendor. A market read acted on before the forecast caught up. A production room designed from constraints because the machine was out of budget. That is where the habit of naming the real decision, checking the assumption, and leaving a loop behind was built.

Start here

Bring the messy version.

The half-built model, the pricing file nobody trusts, the agent that works in the demo. That is the raw material.