REALIZE
Story · four chapters · draft copy

Buildings to bots.

How I got from modeling buildings to running a team of AI teammates at night. The page goes from morning to midnight as you read.

Chapter 01 · Before 2013

Ann Arbor.

I studied investment finance and entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

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Chapter 02 · 2013 – 2018

Buildings.

At Jamestown I built the fund model behind $3.3B of acquisitions. Then Bedrock in Detroit, where I led a team of three analysts and refinanced $883M of the portfolio.

I still treat every product like an investment.

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Chapter 03 · 2018 – now

Rocket.

I joined Rocket in 2018 as a strategist and have been promoted three times since. Today I lead the roadmap for CRM, customer data, and AI, and I coach four product managers.

I've spoken on the Dreamforce stage twice, in 2025 and 2026.

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Chapter 04 · March 2026 – now

Nights.

In March 2026 I started building my own AI systems at night. The first one, Corporate OS, grew to about 80,000 lines before I tore it down.

Now eight AI teammates build a trading system for long-term holds, a research bot that writes its rules before it sees results, and an app for families is in TestFlight.

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To be continued · a new chapter every Monday

It's still being written.

I post a chapter a week on LinkedIn. They're kept here for good, in order.