AI-native builder & integrator
I help people put AI to work. Through Ragu.ai, I help businesses make practical use of it. Frontier Table brings curious people together to learn, build and share. And I’m building wrk.dog to make great open-source and vibe-coded software easier for everyone to use.
Every few years, a technology shift changes how businesses operate. I've been early to each one — not as an observer, but as a builder. I hold a granted U.S. patent (10,021,455) for a system that uses luminaire-based optical communication to identify content and determine viewership, and a patent pending (US 18/330,111) for a real-time AI system that reads biometrics and continuously adapts content based on physiological response.
Studied at Penn while the web was just becoming real. The early internet wasn't a class — it was something you figured out by doing.
Built at the intersection of search and content during the first wave. Learned what it meant to build for scale before "scale" was a buzzword.
Was building video infrastructure while YouTube was still figuring out what it was. Understood distribution before distribution was the business.
Built content networks and e-commerce operations at the moment when online commerce shifted from experiment to expectation. Moved merchandise, built audiences, ran operations.
Built Rebates.com into a $500K/month paid marketing operation. Learned what it means to run profitable customer acquisition at scale — every dollar measured, every channel optimized.
Built Quantum Exchange, a quantum computer-resistant blockchain protocol. Designed and deployed algorithmic trading systems for digital assets. Developed Web3 applications for the art market. All three failed. Each one taught me more about building at the frontier than any success could have.
Saw the shift coming before most. Started building AI-native businesses: infrastructure for enterprises, products for consumers, protocols for communication. This one is different.
Every major technology wave requires the same thing: someone who's already built through one to help you build through the next. I work with founders and CEOs who are ready to run their businesses with AI — not just talk about it.
90 minutes. We get on a call and actually build something together — an app, a workflow, a tool, a prototype. You walk away with something functional, not a deck of recommendations.
Ongoing advisory for leaders who want a strategic partner embedded in their business. Organizational AI roadmap, async access, and the judgment of someone who's built through multiple technology transitions.
Heavy integration work goes to Ragu.AI, the company I founded. The Ragu team builds production-grade AI systems for premium brands — the kind of infrastructure that runs quietly and reliably at scale.
Ragu.AI does enterprise AI integration. I’m building Wrk.Dog to make great open-source and vibe-coded software easier for everyone to use.
Enterprise AI infrastructure, from discovery through production deployment. When a company needs serious integration work — systems, data, and AI running in production — that work goes to Ragu.
Enterprise clients across luxury, travel, and lifestyle. Live production systems, not demos.
Visit ragu.ai Founder · BuildingWrk.Dog is home to a small family of working-dog tools, built to make great software easier for everyone to use. It’s early days.
Visit wrk.dogThe third thing I'm building
Since 2022 I've run a private group of builders, founders and operators trading what's actually working with AI — tools, agents, costs, and what broke this week. It's where most of my dispatches start.
I love the group, and I don’t think anyone abuses it. But it just passed 100 people, and a chat that size can get unwieldy, so I created a club: a more durable way for us to grow and help each other than mass WhatsApp broadcasts.
The dispatches, the community board at frontiertable.com, and a 15-minute intro call with me if you’d like to join.
We get on a call and build. In the last one we set up Claude, Gemini and Codex side by side and turned a charity's 900-plus-question questionnaire into a tiered, adaptive one in a single sitting.
On building with AI, running companies, and what happens when you stop treating intelligence as a tool and start treating it as infrastructure.
TV appearances and press coverage on AI and what it means for everyday people.
I take on a limited number of advisory engagements. If you're a founder or CEO ready to operate with AI, I'd like to hear from you.