AI is eating the world. Machine & Partners is a strategic consultancy helping organizations get up to speed and into market with AI products that deliver real and relevant value.The problem we're seeing is that companies are feeling pressure to integrate AI into their workflows and products, but aren't sure how. The technology is new and overhyped and there are a million voices advocating for a million different approaches.In fact, every company is different and needs to leverage their individual strengths. We think you should go slow to go fast. Take a look at your business, make a list of potential use cases, and assess them for how hard they will be to build, how much value they will create, and how fast you can get them built. Then, move fast to build an MVP so you don't get bogged down in a long dev process that will be outdated before you're finished.We help you navigate that process to ensure you build the right thing at the right scope at the right time.

Working with a team of 8 engineers and designers to launch a new AI-powered engineering operations SaaS platform.

Created a customer-centric product vision for a platform disrupting business education. Rebuilt the product and engineering teams from scratch, helped hire the first head of engineering. Collaborated with marketing to build a product-led martech stack. Collaborated with the education and delivery teams to iterate on a novel learning experience that met both user and business goals.

Helped leaders of Fortune 500 through startups craft and communicate their brand strategies through times of transition. Developed a powerful customer-centric framework for authentic storytelling that aligns the concerns of leaders, employees, and customers. Our insight is that the story is the strategy, and if you can't communicate it to your team, you can't operationalize it.

Creative director turned product leader who helped an influencer ad network pivot into a comms platform. Led the creative and product departments through the tumultuous switch from a service-oriented company to a SaaS platform. Rebranded the company, created a vision for the new product, and defined the first product iteration, working closely with the engineering and leadership team.

Freelance product and interactive consulting for Gap, Sony, and eBay. Helped my clients understand the best way to approach technically complicated projects in a customer-centric way.

Lecturer for several courses at the undergraduate level including Graphic Design, Advanced Graphic Design and Typography. Responsible for teaching a variety of skills from fundamental principals to history to ethics.

Shared creative and interactive development activities with a small team of designers and coders. Fast paced design and interactive agency specialized in hyper-creative development for clients who wanted bleeding-edge, and out-of-the-box type of work.

Designer and interactive developer in an agile team that developed an early web-based photo sharing application.

Responsible for leading design team, creating brand-centric interactive sites and tools for large and medium sized clients.

Startup interactive agency founded straight out of grad school. Monkeys with laptops, basically.