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The future of the operator, the agency, and the firm.

What used to require an agency, a consultancy, or a dedicated team now runs through one senior operator and purpose-built AI tooling. One accountable person.

Denver, CO

Best fit

Product or platform launches, turnarounds, and exit preparation that need range and speed, not a bigger team.

AI transformation that needs to be built and operated, not just strategized.

Ventures and teams that need full-lifecycle ownership from one seat instead of a larger, slower structure.

Simon J Hill

Simon J Hill

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4 exits: Rachio/Rain Bird, if(we)/ParshipMeet Group, AOL/Verizon, Spire Digital/Valtech

Previously VP Product at Rachio, Director at Meet Group, Principal PM at AOL/MapQuest

25 years across product, engineering, and operations

Built and managed product, design, ML/AI, and protocol engineering teams at scale

Former management consultant to Chevron, U.S. Department of Energy, URS, and the United Nations

Oxford (MA Linguistics, BA Oriental Studies), UCL (MA Philosophy)

Built and operated large-scale behavioral products across social, dating, gaming, IoT, and AI. Ex-British. Failed Buddhist monk, India 1992 and Japan 1997.

40M+

Daily users at peak

$75M+

Revenue line managed

4

Exits

25

Years shipping

3

Patents

Capabilities

Everything the firm would staff. One operator.

Product leadership

Strategy, opportunity framing, roadmap design, pricing, sequencing, and go-to-market decisions that keep product and business logic tied together.

Includes

Discovery, positioning, prioritization, launch planning, monetization

Design and growth

User journeys, interface design, conversion systems, lifecycle loops, and the measurement layer needed to improve them without guesswork.

Includes

UX, UI, design systems, analytics, SEO, lifecycle, experimentation

Application delivery

Hands-on implementation across web, mobile, backend, and data plumbing, with a bias toward maintainable systems rather than heroic prototypes.

Includes

React, Vue, Next.js, Python, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis

AI systems

Practical uses of LLMs where they improve throughput, decision support, workflows, or product experience without turning the product into a gimmick.

Includes

OpenAI, Anthropic, RAG, embeddings, orchestration, internal tools

Data and instrumentation

Event models, reporting, operational dashboards, forecasting, and decision support for teams that need fewer opinions and better visibility.

Includes

Snowflake, BigQuery, dbt, Metabase, Looker, Tableau, Streamlit

Infrastructure and specialist domains

A working grasp of the platform layer, plus access to trusted specialists when the job genuinely needs deep security, DevOps, or domain-specific reinforcement.

Includes

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloudflare, observability, payments, Web3

Typical engagement model

Keep the system simple enough to move.

01

Start with the constraint that matters most: growth, delivery speed, monetization, AI adoption, or product reset.

02

Restructure execution and operations for maximum AI leverage without losing accountability.

03

Instrument the work so decisions improve with evidence, not opinion.

AI Tooling & Research

Built for problems I kept running into — in my work and in the world.

6 projects across agents, identity, governance, and research

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Tend

Developer tooling for multi-agent oversight

CLI for orchestrating multiple AI agent workstreams when the bottleneck is expert attention rather than raw agent capacity.

CLIAgentsDevTool

MyOldTeam

Built to replace coordination overhead

Product operating system that coordinates across communication and project channels to run multiple products in parallel.

Internal ToolAgentic AIOps

Living Hash Protocol

Experimental identity infrastructure

Open-source identity protocol on Tari exploring proof of personhood through lived experience patterns that AI cannot cheaply fake.

IdentityOpen SourceCrypto

Hestia

Research into shared ethics and machine governance

Research prototype on AI-human moral governance through evolutionary modeling of symbiotic processes.

ResearchGovernanceAI

AI & the Theory of the Firm

Published in Enterprise Innovation · Feb 2026

A Coasian reading of AI transformation: if transaction costs collapse function by function, what work still requires a firm to do it at all?

EssayOrg DesignAI

Hestia Protocol RFC

Draft 1.7 · Proposed Standard · Aug 2025

Formal specification for metabolically-constrained, morally-grounded digital agents with Minimal Viable Consciousness — priced attention, feeling-like evaluators, and evolutionary selection.

RFCProtocolAI Ethics

Portfolio

Selected products to demonstrate scope and depth.

9 builds across product, ops, and infrastructure

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Tari Labs

100K+ users across desktop and mobile

Principal product and engineering leadership across mainnet launch, token airdrop, AI developer experience, and governance transition.

BlockchainAI DXPython
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Rachio

Acquired by Rain Bird in 2025

VP Product and later AI product consultant across app growth, ecommerce expansion, SaaS launches, and exit-focused strategy.

ProductIoTGrowth
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Fable

iOS and Android, 4.5+ stars

A reference implementation for a groundbreaking agentic architecture, shipped as a consumer journaling app. Longitudinal, entity-aware, narrative-driven. Predates current frameworks and goes beyond them to maintain a morally-grounded living model of a person.

MobileAIAgentic
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Blink GTM

Mind2Web benchmark leader

0 to 1 product and engineering for an AI browser-use agent with private payment rails and SOC2-grade delivery constraints.

AutomationSOC2React

Henri Home

Built on spec for a Boulder company

Passive house energy simulator modeling heat pump, ERV, solar, and battery systems with an adaptive AI decision engine across 9 climate zones.

VuePythonEnergy/IoT
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Nod

Featured in the App Store · 2015

Avatar-based messaging app bringing animated emotion and face-to-face expressiveness to texting. Fully customizable characters with gestures, reactions, and outfits. iOS and Android.

MobileMessagingSocial
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MQVibe

150K MAU, 600K downloads in 3 months

Social local neighborhood discovery app from MapQuest. Hotspots, rankings, and reviews. Top 10 free travel app. "Best thing AOL has done in 10 years."

MobileLocalSocial
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WeChill

Acquired by ParshipMeet Group for $500M

Led the pivot into social live video at if(we), then scaled it as Director of Product at The Meet Group. Nearly tripled company value.

Live VideoSocialDating
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Swoon

Early mobile dating, pre-Tinder Android

First hot-or-not Tinder-style dating app on Android in 2012. 50K downloads, later absorbed into Tagged/hi5's 2M DAU social gaming and dating platform.

DatingMobileGrowth

Transformation Consulting

Ten years designing and delivering transformation services before going in-house.

1998 – 2010

1998 – 2001

N.C.Company Ltd

Information Architect & Service Designer

Strategic, partnership, and new product development for some of the largest digital transformations of the dot-com era. Clients included Vodafone, BBC, Barclays, Carlton, GUS, and FT.com.

Digital TransformationNew EconomyEnterprise

2002 – 2007

Developmental Consulting, Inc.

Senior Management Consultant

Applied operational research methods synthesized from RAND and the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Built quantitative risk-analysis tools and transformation programs for Chevron, the U.S. Department of Energy, and URS.

Organizational ScienceRisk AnalysisQuantitative Methods

2007 – 2010

Spire Digital

VP of Strategy & Consulting

Led transformation from web design firm to digital strategy consultancy. Doubled average project size, established product strategy practice. Awarded Denver Business Journal Top 40 Under 40, 2009. Acquired by Kin+Carta, then Valtech.

Service DesignDigital StrategyPractice Building