Tools · AI-built, strategy-led

Judgment,encoded.

Three tools, one for each step of how I actually run brand work: diagnose, architect, execute. Each tests whether that piece of strategic judgment can be encoded and run at scale.

Live tools

01

Brand Intelligence Toolkit

A structured audit tool for homepage clarity, positioning, differentiation, trust, and conversion, built on an explicit strategic rubric. I built this to test whether a defensible brand framework could be encoded and run at scale.
Extracts headings, claims, proof points, and CTAs · scores against eight strategic categories · outputs a prioritized, executive-ready action plan.
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See a real run — audited against this homepage+
Average score: 8.0 / 10
Conversion
9/10

"The single, low-friction CTA 'Book a 30-min conversation' is repeated consistently at the top, middle, and bottom of the page."

Proof strength
9/10

"Claims are backed by specific figures like '$0 to $100M+ in 30 months,' '70x revenue growth in 35 months,' tied to named companies, not vague adjectives."

Positioning
8/10

"The site explicitly splits into two buyer paths, 'For hiring teams' and 'For founders,' and frames the work as happening 'at the zero-to-one moment. Before the category exists.'"

Top action item

Add a one-line qualifier under each path so a visitor can sharpen exactly which CTA applies to them before clicking.

This is a real run. Conversion jumped from 6 to 9 after I acted on the previous round's feedback — the score moves as the site does.
Built for
Homepage & positioning audits
Output
Eight-category strategic scorecard + action plan
02

Category Thesis Generator

Give it a product and its closest competitors, and it generates distinct category theses: not variations on one idea, but genuinely different strategic bets, each with what it wins, what it costs, and who it puts you up against. Built to test whether category-creation judgment could be encoded the same way the audit rubric was.
Reads the product & competitive set · diverges into 2–3 distinct framings · flags the strongest overall bet with honest tradeoffs on every option.
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See a real run — framing my own candidacy+
Product: a fractional brand & narrative strategist positioning for VP/CMO roles and select consulting. Competitors: open VP of Brand/CMO headcount, brand and design agencies, generic branding consultants.
Recommended
Fractional narrative executive
"I'm not selling brand services, I'm selling the function of a VP of Brand/Narrative that a company doesn't yet have the clarity or budget to hire correctly."
Benefits: explains why recruiters are in the buyer set at all, you become the spec they use to define the role rather than a vendor competing with it. Risks: you get pulled into org-design and hiring conversations, and risk being seen as a stopgap replaced once the "real" exec is hired.
Rigorous positioning, not creative brand
"I borrow credibility from strategic positioning, and explicitly reject 'brand agency' as a category, because founders trust logic more than they trust taste."
Benefits: positions the work as diligence-adjacent and defensible in a board meeting, shortening the sales cycle with technical founders burned by expensive rebrands. Risks: gives up the emotional, identity-level territory that often carries the highest retainer value.
This is a real run, using my own positioning as the test case.
Built for
Positioning & category strategy
Output
2–3 category theses with tradeoffs + recommendation
03

Technical-to-Buyer Translator

Describe what a product technically does and list the buyers who need to understand it. It holds one core technical fact constant, then translates it into value-prop copy for each buyer, in their language, without losing what's actually true. The same move behind the Ekso Bionics case study: one brand spine, two buyer narratives.
Fixes the core technical claim · writes a distinct headline & value prop per buyer · flags the real risk of overclaiming in each translation.
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See a real run — translated for my own offerings+
Fact held constant: the work only translates what's already real and substantiated inside a company into believable language and systems, it never invents capability or proof that doesn't exist.
For marketing executive recruiters
"A hire who turns real tech into market belief, not hype."
"You're not looking for someone who can write a good tagline. You're looking for someone who can walk into a company with real but unarticulated capability and build the entire language system that makes the market believe it."
For founders
"You have something real. Now make people believe it."
"Most founders don't have a lying problem, they have a legibility problem, the tech and the traction are real, but investors and customers can't parse it fast enough to say yes."
This is a real run, using my own positioning as the test case.
Built for
Multi-audience messaging
Output
Per-buyer headline + copy anchored to one fixed fact

Documented systems

01

CalmWave AI Workflow Suite

A governed suite of ten specialized GPTs, built and run in production for two years, covering research, strategy, brand governance, execution, and analytics. Retired and documented as a portfolio case study, not a live tool.
Ten role-specific specialists · four functional layers · explicit governance, evaluation, and escalation frameworks · human-in-the-loop by design.
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Built for
Marketing operations at CalmWave
Output
5 users, hundreds of hours saved over 2 years

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FAQ

What do these tools actually do?+
Each one applies a specific piece of strategic judgment I use in client work — auditing a homepage, generating category positioning options, or translating a technical fact for different buyers — as a repeatable, structured tool instead of a one-off consulting exercise.
Are they free to use?+
Yes, they're free to run. They're built on paid AI infrastructure on my end, so if traffic ever outpaces what that supports, I'll note it here, but there's no cost or account required to use any of them today.
How accurate are the outputs?+
Treat them as a strong first draft, not a final answer. Each tool is built with explicit rubrics and guardrails to keep output grounded rather than generic, but strategic judgment calls still benefit from a human read before you act on them.
Can I use these for my own company?+
Yes, they're public and free to run on any product or homepage. If one is useful in your actual work, that's exactly what it's for.
What's the tech behind them?+
Each tool is a small Next.js app calling the Anthropic API on the backend, with the strategic logic — the rubric, the prompt structure, the guardrails — written by me. The code for each is linked from its card above.