I ship working software in front of the customer who needs it.
Fifteen years as a founder. Three years doing the forward-deployed job for people like Jon Benson and Anik Singal. Now looking for one team.
Andrew Naegele · applied AI · forward-deployed · Upstate NY · remote
What I made.
CallVaultProduct
Wesley Authority HubRebrand
LifeOSProduct
BackstageProduct
The Golf GauntletSite
HingesWriting
aisimple.coSite
ClawSimplyProduct
DevPingProduct
Operator GPT librarySystem
What I believe.
AI as a prosthetic
ADHD founders were never lazy. They were missing the gear. AI carries the parts of the brain that don't cooperate.
Multiplied Leverage
One action, many outputs. If it doesn't pay for itself twice, I don't build it.
Naming as permission
Name the pattern precisely and the shame turns into a spec sheet.
How it went.
- Four daysHow I got hired over the vendor.
- The whole answer, firstSolving it for free, then getting hired.
- Six dead monthsThe answer was already in their data.
- Back on stageA 26-year broker, and the sixty-hour talk that took fifteen minutes.
- The only job I’ve taken in fifteen yearsDoubling a company in ten weeks.
- One promptFinding $45,000 a week in a place nobody was looking.
- Thirty minutesBuilding the thing live, on a real deal.
- Their most demanding userAdvising a startup by using it harder than anyone.
The person.
- Built three seven-figure businesses. Lost one. Rebuilt.
- Runs his life on an operating system he built.
- Writes Hinges.
Two doors.
Forward-deployed · applied AI
Hire me
I sit with the customer, find the real problem, build the fix, and make it stick. Remote, US.