Things I've built and run, not just pitched.

An AI company running the full customer lifecycle for pest & wildlife operators, from the missed call to the booked job.

Most pest and wildlife control businesses are one or two people. They miss calls constantly while on job sites, and a missed call is a missed booking. Pest OS sits behind the operator's existing number. The owner still gets first crack at every call. If nobody answers after five rings, Pest OS picks up, triages the pest type and urgency, books the job to the operator's calendar, and emails a call summary.

My co-founder Jacob Posner (Dartmouth '27) leads the technical architecture. I lead business development, outreach, operations, and sales. We met in Rome while studying abroad and incorporated when we got back to campus.

In spring 2026, we won the Magnuson Founder's Grant from Dartmouth's Center for Entrepreneurship, a competitive grant awarded to student ventures demonstrating real traction and a credible path to scale. The grant funds our next phase of customer acquisition and product development.

The real engineering is in the parts you never hear: spam screening, escalation logic, and routing that optimizes appointment times by location and job type.

First customer, live since April 2026

Our first customer, Estate Wildlife Control, is a two-operator wildlife company in New Hampshire that went live April 2, 2026. These numbers are from the last 30 days.

Early on, one call was mishandled by the AI. We caught it, told the operator, fixed the system, and repaired the relationship. An operator's phone line is their business, and we treat it that way.

What I learned

We built first and iterated to our customer's needs, which I think was the right call. Roughly 1,000 cold emails generated interest but no signed customers. What actually worked was getting in front of people: leaning on my Dartmouth angle to get a conversation, starting with a small project to build trust, and proving the product before asking for a bigger commitment.

Pest OS taught me how to build rapport, and that face-to-face time is how you build it. It also taught me to take product validation and market research seriously: we sized the industry, talked to operators, and let a live customer shape what the product became.

LP outreach infrastructure, proprietary databases, and macro research for an emerging venture fund

As a venture analyst at GHC Partners, I built the fund's LP outreach infrastructure from scratch. Python scripts parsed and structured contact data from source PDFs. The Anthropic API personalized email drafts at scale. A Gmail integration delivered daily drafts to the managing partner's inbox. An Excel CRM, iterated through eight-plus versions, tracked contact status, outreach stage, and responses.

The system was designed to never auto-send. Every email required explicit partner approval before going out. The automation removed drafting time, not judgment.

Beyond outreach

I spearheaded an alternative fundraising initiative, building three databases tracking PRIs, emerging manager programs, and donor-advised funds across 100+ potential LPs in the US and Northern Europe. I assisted on the fund's SBIC application, and my macroeconomic research has been included in three LP reports.

Earlier builds

Arboro (TuckLAB, spring 2025). B2C reforestation platform. I led finance and business strategy. First place in the 6 Minute Pitch, Value Proposition, and Product Development challenges; third overall out of 16 teams.

The Gratefull Bed Company (2023–2025). I bought an ownership share of a small bed company specifically to learn small business management with real money on the line, and increased profitability each year I held it.