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Building Better Businesses, Products & People.

Strategy, products, AI, and growth systems for ambitious founders and businesses.

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What Happens When Curiosity Meets Code

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Capture what matters — a minimal notes app with wikilinks and a visual knowledge graph.

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Evidence, not opinions — automated conversion audits benchmarked against real GA4 data.

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Color accessibility, solved — generate WCAG-compliant palettes and auto-fix failing contrast.

PriceLab Calculate FREE PRICING CALCULATOR Stop Underpricing Your Work. Material cost $12.40 Labour + time $18.00 Suggested price $46.50 42% margin

PriceLab

Stop underpricing your work — a free calculator built for makers and small creative businesses.

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What I'm Building Toward

Books

A memoir that turns grief into purpose. A mystery that won't let you sleep. Two books, two worlds — grab your copy today.

  • A journey through grief & purpose
  • A mystery you won't put down
  • New stories on the way
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Books

Coaching

Personalized guidance and accountability to help you apply what you're learning and reach your goals faster.

  • 1:1 coaching engagements
  • Group & cohort programs
  • Goal-setting & accountability
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Coaching

Business Consulting

Hands-on strategy and operator-level guidance to help founders untangle growth, operations, and go-to-market decisions.

  • Growth & go-to-market strategy
  • Operations & process design
  • Founder & leadership advising
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Business Consulting

SaaS Builds

Software products designed, built, and shipped from scratch — from early MVPs to fully scaled platforms.

  • MVP design & build
  • Full-stack product development
  • Scaling & post-launch growth
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SaaS Builds

My Story

One person. Hundreds of experiments. Countless lessons.

Growing up, I learned early that the things that make you different are often the things that make you useful. I spent years building the skills, relationships, and habits that eventually became the foundation for this work…

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MY GROWTH OPERATING MODEL

The System Behind the Outcomes

I find what's quietly costing you growth — then fix it.

That means partnering with SMBs scaling fast and enterprise teams protecting complex revenue streams — finding exactly where growth is leaking, then building the systems, teams, and products to capture it back.

Most consultants stop at the deck. I stay through the build, because growth is proven in execution, not slides.

Whether you need an outside perspective, fractional leadership, or someone embedded in your team, I plug in at exactly the altitude your growth problem requires.

Discover

Understand before changing


  • Data & Analytics
  • Customer Research
  • Behavior & Insights
  • Opportunity Identification

Deliver

Turn insights into outcomes


  • Product Improvements
  • Customer Experience
  • CRO & Experimentation
  • Marketing & Execution

Align

Make the organization capable


  • Strategy & Prioritization
  • Stakeholder Alignment
  • Process & Governance
  • Team Enablement

Scale

Create sustainable growth


  • Optimization & Automation
  • AI & Intelligent Systems
  • Measurement & Attribution
  • Continuous Experimentation

SEVEN BRANDS · ONE THROUGH-LINE

Every Stop Taught Me Something

2005

Hewlett-Packard

Enterprise marketing analytics across global campaigns.

2015

Lennox International

Built the data science programme from scratch. Led a team of 15 analysts.

2023

Citi

+40% organic traffic, −$3M ad spend, +15% customer retention.

2024

Lenovo

Led CRO initiatives across APAC, delivering a 35% increase in lead generation and a 28% improvement in conversion rates.

2025

Criteo

Managed GTM tagging and analytics governance across North America.

2025

Astound Broadband

Led the CRO programme, improving digital funnel conversion rates by 28%.

2026

PayPal

Developed media operations strategy, reducing campaign waste by 25%.

PROOF, NOT ADJECTIVES

What I learn becomes what I build.

A condensed look at continuous learning and the exact toolkit behind the work — not the full log, just the throughline.

12+ Certifications since 2020

Analytics, AI, CRO, sales, and leadership — studied deliberately, not for a badge.

Stanford TU Munich Adobe +9 more
40+ Tools across 10 practice areas

The same stack on production work and my own builds — not a resume list.

Analytics CRO AI & Automation +7 areas
7 Brands,
one throughline

21+ years across enterprise and independent builds, always solving for growth.

HP PayPal Citi +4 more
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2nd Edition · Enhanced & Expanded

From Graves to Guardian

A journey through grief. A choice to live with purpose. This second edition — enhanced and expanded — follows one man's path from loss toward becoming a guardian of the stories and people he almost let slip away.

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New Show · Launching Soon

Built Different Show

Built Different Show is launching soon — conversations with everyday people, not the 1%, who are built different and have found their own way to make a mark on the world through creativity, grit, and lived experience.

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Perspectives

Behind-the-scenes lessons on building products, teams, and businesses — from the first line of code to the first paying customer.

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NO STRINGS ATTACHED

Resources I Wish I Had Earlier

Guides, checklists, and tools I've built — no strings, just useful. Grab one and you're on the list for what's next.

Template

CRO audit worksheet

A comprehensive checklist for auditing conversion rates across every funnel stage. Used across six enterprise brands to find and fix leakage points before they compound.

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Checklist

Analytics setup guide

Step-by-step guide to implementing product analytics from scratch — covering event taxonomy, attribution modelling, and dashboard architecture that won't need rebuilding in six months.

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Whitepaper

Growth strategy framework

The exact framework used to scale B2B SaaS products from zero to meaningful ARR. Covers acquisition loops, retention levers, and the metrics that actually predict revenue.

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Dashboard

Product analytics template

Ready-to-use Notion + Google Sheets dashboard templates for tracking core product KPIs. Plug in your numbers and get a live view of product health in under an hour.

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Guide

MVP build blueprint

How to design, build, and launch a scalable MVP in under 30 days. Covers tech stack selection, feature prioritisation, and the minimum viable distribution strategy most builders skip entirely.

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Framework

Tech debt audit framework

A systematic approach to identifying, categorising, and managing technical debt before it becomes an existential risk. Includes a scoring model and triage playbook.

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