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I build what I teach.

I'm not a consultant who has never shipped. The behavioral science and experimentation discipline I bring to Fortune 500 growth teams is the same playbook I use to build and grow my own products.

Not everything I've built is still running. Here's what I shut down — the thesis it started from, what actually happened, and the lesson it left behind. The ones I killed taught me as much as the ones that worked.

Comfort NeckClosedFounder & Director of Marketing

My first real company — a test of whether the marketing and economics I was studying actually held up in the real world.

A full e-commerce lifecycle — sourcing, selling, and a 25-person team — wound down when I graduated.Read the teardown →
TrafficScoutDiscontinuedCo-Founder — Product, Marketing & Growth

An AI agent that finds the right Reddit conversations and helps you reply with something genuinely useful — turning the best free traffic source into a repeatable channel.

Validated demand and paying customers — then discontinued on principle when it became a cat-and-mouse fight with Reddit's anti-automation.Read the teardown →
MyeverlySunsetFounder (solo)

A privacy-first AI companion built around the real technical problem — keeping an AI's memory of you from drifting or being erased as the models underneath it change.

Built a working prototype and ran deep user research — then chose to sunset it rather than build in a space I couldn't stand behind.Read the teardown →
AppScreenshotKitClosedCo-Founder — Product, Marketing & Growth

A fast way to make pixel-perfect App Store screenshots — build it in a day, prove distribution in ninety.

A few hundred users and real sales, entirely from Reddit and AI directories — closed as we each moved toward the different halves of the business we most wanted to run.Read the teardown →
AgenticWorksSunsetCo-Founder — AI Strategy & Delivery

A dev agency built with a partner to help small businesses implement AI agents and automation — service first, product later.

Built out a partner, a delivery team, and real client-pipeline potential — sunset as we each found our own next direction to build in.Read the teardown →
GhostSunsetFounder (solo)

A privacy-first AI chat app, explored in the same wave that produced Myeverly — before checking whether it belonged in a category facing rising regulatory risk with no real differentiation.

Exited before productionizing — the mechanics worked, but the regulatory risk and competitive differentiation didn't hold up once I checked them.Read the teardown →
Growth Strategy LabClosedFounder & Writer

A B2B learning resource for founders and startups on how to grow without burning capital — spend a first funding round on marketing that compounds, not on vanity metrics.

Ran as its own site and newsletter — consolidated once the audience and thesis turned out to overlap almost entirely with what I already wrote elsewhere.Read the teardown →
Cleaning InsightsDiscontinuedCo-Founder — Product & Research

A SaaS concept for cleaning companies — helping short-term-rental hosts vet, schedule, and verify quality across a roster of cleaners — seeded by a good friend's real-world rental-management business.

Stayed in market research — one friend's real pain never closed the gap to a repeatable, paying market.Read the teardown →
Behavioral Conversion LabSunsetFounder & Researcher

A publication applying real experimentation rigor — sample size, test duration, design quality — to the behavioral-science literature, to separate what actually replicates from what's just popular.

Sunset as a standalone site — folded into research that's stronger next to an existing audience than standing on its own.Read the teardown →
PublishRelayClosedCo-Founder — Product & Growth

One-click cross-posting from WordPress to Medium — turn every post into syndication, backlinks, and a second audience.

Scoped, built, and shipped inside a single week — earned early signups, then moved on when my co-founder and I read the next move differently, keep pushing distribution or start the next build.
UnhackmylifeClosedFounder & Instructor

An online academy applying research-backed behavioral economics to personal finance — teaching people to out-design their own biases.

Built a 2,900+ community and paid coaching clients, then wound down as I moved on to build the next thing — the behavioral-economics teaching muscle behind everything since.
SEOWILMClosedFounder & SEO Specialist

A local SEO consultancy for small businesses — Google, YouTube, and reputation management, delivered by a distributed freelance team.

Ran client work while managing 20+ freelancers with briefs, quality standards, and delivery workflows.
True Knowledge PodcastClosedFounder, Producer & Publisher

Fight online misinformation by putting actual academics on the record — professors interviewed about their own research.

150+ professors contacted, 40+ interviews secured — including Dr. Thomas Simpson of the Federal Reserve Board — but only 10 fully produced; a one-person production and editing workload was the real bottleneck, not the outreach.
Atticus PhotoClosedFounder & Portrait Photographer

A portrait photography business built on organic Instagram growth and referral trust — good creative and business fundamentals, wound down once it became clear I wanted to build software and companies more than run a service business.

6K+ Instagram following in year one, a 5-star rating on my Airbnb Experiences offering, and published editorial work — closed when I chose to put that time into building products instead of scaling a one-person service business.

Every product starts with a behavioral hypothesis, ships lean, and earns its next feature through real experiments — not opinions.

I build solo with AI-augmented development, validate demand before scaling, and treat my own products the way I treat a client's program: name the cognitive mechanism, predict the outcome, measure the lift. It's the fastest way I know to learn what actually moves people.

Beyond what I've shipped, I keep a running set of startup and product ideas — the problems I find worth solving and the first experiments I'd run to test them.

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Building in growth, experimentation, or AI?

I angel-invest in and advise early-stage teams in these spaces — and I take on a small number of consulting engagements each quarter.

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