Open to talks, podcasts, and guest lectures.

What I talk about

• Sustainment is harder than ingestion: lessons from social-sector data infrastructure.

  The PM craft when your customer is a 501(c)(3) and your data sources are funders, fiscal sponsors, and IRS forms. Ingestion is a moment. Sustainment is a relationship. This talk draws from bringing hundreds of previously-invisible fiscal-sponsorship projects into national philanthropic data infrastructure and the governance design that made it durable. Practical, honest, and specific to the nonprofit-technology stack.

• Shipping with AI, not demoing with it: what agentic tooling actually looks like in production.

  What separates PMs who use AI daily from PMs who use it occasionally is the orchestration layer: what gets automated, what stays human, where the handoff lives, and how you catch drift before it compounds. Drawing from Valet's 25 production skills and a year of shipping real PM work through Claude Code, this talk is for practitioners who want to close the gap between "impressive demo" and "trusted daily tool."

• Point the friction: designing products that respect how people actually think.

  Most products assume the user has unlimited attention and reliable working memory. They don't. This talk covers the design principle that runs through everything I've built: when you can't remove cognitive load entirely, you can control which direction it points. ADHD-aware AI workflows, a Slack bot that surfaces trade-offs instead of issuing verdicts, a macro dashboard that gets quieter as markets get louder. Different products, same design problem.

Format

I'm available for conference talks (30–60 min), podcast interviews, and classroom guest lectures. Comfortable with technical, product, and mixed audiences. Happy to tailor depth and examples to the room.

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