I build the operating systems that let SaaS companies scale in the AI era.

Product and operations executive, seven acquisitions deep, two decades in wealthtech and compliance technology. I write about the work weekly; new essays land here first, then Substack.

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  • How I rebuilt Notion for a multi-AI workflow with Codex

    A useful multi-AI workflow needs one shared context layer, one operational system of record, and a small adapter for each AI tool. My Notion workspace had become the center of my AI workflow. It held notes, meeting transcripts, project material, research, and the context I wanted available to Claude and ChatGPT. It was capable, but…

  • The Claude Plugin for Product in M&A

    Product in Acquisitions OS is live for premium subscribers. Last week, I wrote about the M&A gap nobody owns, the missing Product seat at most M&A deal tables. The free executive briefing that went out with that post (and the long-form framework linked inside) is the operating answer to that gap on paper. This is…

  • The (M&A) Gap That Nobody Owns

    Most product acquisitions do not fail at the deal. They fail three weeks later, in a room nobody from the deal team attends. The deal closes on a Friday. The press release goes out, the all-hands happens, the leadership team takes the photo. Everyone is told the hard part is behind them. Three weeks later,…

  • The Fact Check is the Product for Competitive Briefs

    You can ask any capable model for a competitive brief on a company and have something back before your coffee cools. Six rivals, a few revenue figures, an analyst quote, a tidy summary. It reads well. It reads finished. That polish is the problem. TL;DR: the prompt is free to use at the bottom of…

  • Treat What You Know Like Software

    A year of garden planning was trapped in a doc and my head. So I shipped it as a fast, public, version-controlled site. Here is the method, and why it transfers to any knowledge worth keeping.

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