Work with me

Four ways to work together.

Speaking, consulting, advising, hiring. Every lane runs through the same operator — with the same standard for pace, honesty, and outcome.

Speaking

Talks, panels, and podcasts on AI-native operations.

Selective, prepared, and worth the audience's time. Written and delivered by the operator, not a comms team.

Outcome as a Service. On human capital, after AI.

Why the next decade of workforce software will be sold as measurable outcomes, not subscriptions.

The operator moat in AI.

The next wave of billion-dollar AI companies won't be built by ML PhDs in San Francisco; they'll be built by operators who lived the problem in regulated industries.

Building a national company without engineers.

A team of four built a healthcare AI platform serving 78,000+ clinicians. What it took, and what nobody warns you about.

Keynote30–45 min
Fireside45–60 min
Panel45–60 min
Long-form podcast60–120 min
Recent
Best for founder events / healthcare / AI / Africa & diaspora
Based Tacoma WA — US & international
Lead time 6 weeks minimum, ideally 12+
Consulting

One day. One question. One plan.

A single, focused engagement for healthcare and staffing operators who need to figure out where AI actually earns its keep — before spending twelve months and seven figures learning the same thing.

The one offer

The AI Operating Day.

A single, on-site day with your leadership team — CEO, COO, CFO, CIO if you have one — to answer one question honestly: where in our operation does AI meaningfully move the number, and how do we get there without wasting a year on the wrong pilot. No slide decks. No frameworks. One operator asking your team hard questions and leaving you with a written plan you can execute.

Morning · 4 hours
Map the chaos.
Walk the operation. Sit with schedulers, DONs, coordinators, the CFO. Identify the 3–4 failure modes quietly costing the most.
Afternoon · 4 hours
Point the tools.
Score failure modes: does AI actually move this, is ROI defensible, can we ship in 90 days without breaking anything.
Week after · Async
Deliver the written record.
A 20–30 page written plan within 7 days: failure-mode map, scored opportunities, 90-day sequencing plan, vendor landscape read, build-vs-buy recommendations.

Right fit

  • Healthcare / staffing, $10M–$500M revenue
  • CEO or COO in the room the whole day
  • Want a written plan, not a framework
  • Can act within 90 days

Wrong fit

  • Want a slide deck for the board
  • Want validation of a decision already made
  • No authority to move budget
  • In a sector I don't know
  • Want an ongoing retainer
Format on-site day + written plan
Scope healthcare / staffing / regulated workforce
Lead time 4–8 weeks from confirmed brief
Advising

A small number of advisory seats, taken carefully.

For founders building at the intersection of AI, regulated industries, and the future of work — where an operator's context is worth more than a check.

01

Selling to regulated buyers.

Healthcare, staffing, long-term care, compliance-heavy operations.

02

Building the operator moat.

Where AI actually earns its keep inside a real operation.

03

Founder discipline.

Team shape, hiring cadence, board dynamics, cost of saying yes to the wrong thing.

Terms
Duration
24 months · single vest.
Long enough to be useful across a real product cycle. Short enough to end cleanly.
Equity
0.25%–0.5% depending on stage and involvement.
Standard advisor terms, unless the engagement is unusually involved — in which case we discuss up front, in writing.
Cash
None. This is not a retainer.
Cash comes from the operating companies. Advising is equity-only.
Cadence
Monthly working session + async.
90 minutes a month, prepared, on a specific agenda. Between sessions I respond within 72 hours.
Exclusivity
Category-exclusive.
I will not advise a direct competitor while advising you.
Board
Board seats considered, rarely.
One or two, ever, at a time. Different conversation from advisory.

Right fit

  • Building in healthcare / staffing / workforce
  • Have shipped something with real customer signal
  • Pre-seed to Series A
  • Know exactly what you'd ask
  • Willing to send updates on a rhythm

Wrong fit

  • Want an advisor for logo value
  • Want cash-only
  • Pre-idea and want brainstorming
  • In a market I don't know
  • Not willing to be told no
Focus AI / regulated markets / workforce
Stage pre-seed to Series A
Answer time two weeks. Always.
Hiring

Come build the thing you'd want to work at.

ShiftNex AI and Actriv Healthcare are both hiring. Small teams, real problems, no theater.

We hire slowly. The résumé matters less than a specific shape of person.

01
You've shipped something, alone or nearly alone.
A company, a product, a project.
02
You get impatient with performative work.
Meetings without decisions, decks without arguments.
03
You write.
For yourself, for the team, for the argument. Everyone on our teams writes.
04
You take the hard thing first.
Given the choice, you take the load-bearing task.
05
You have a life.
Family, discipline outside work, a place you go on weekends.
ShiftNex AI
2024–Present · Tacoma, WA
AI-native healthcare workforce platform. 78K+ clinicians. 108 facilities live daily. 20K+ care hours delivered.
Current openings
Founding Engineering Lead · Product Manager, Marketplace · Head of Facility Success · Growth Marketing Lead
shiftnex.ai/careers
Actriv Healthcare
2017–Present · Tacoma, WA · multi-state
Four consecutive Inc. 5000 years, peaking at #40 nationally in 2021.
Current openings
VP of Operations · Senior Clinical Account Manager · Finance & Accounting Manager · Nurse recruiters & schedulers
actriv.com/careers

I read every introduction. Not every one gets a role — but every one gets read, and every one gets a reply within a few weeks.