Grew up in a small town and had to work extra hard to get my foot in the door working on cool tech startups. My first job at age 15 was fixing iPhone screens in the mall. Then I scooped ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery and bussed tables at a local airport restaurant to pay for college. 

After football practice in high school I'd be learning how to code on CodeAcademy. People thought I was a nerd. 

Fast forward 10 years -- I've built multiple apps, b2b SaaS, internet businesses, websites, and e-commerce businesses that have generated over $100m collectively. 

I got to work remotely, travel to 12+ countries, invest in real estate and stocks and built a fruitful living for myself. 

Learning how to build apps changed my life. Now I’m on a mission to teach 10,000 people how to build apps.

Alim Charaniya

🚨 We’re hiring an AI Prompt Engineer at CloserCoach  

We’re running 300+ AI mock sales calls per day — and that number is about to explode as we roll out our desktop app and 10x our marketing spend. 

We’re looking for someone who lives and breathes prompts.

This role is not about “writing clever ChatGPT prompts.”

It’s about shipping production-grade AI systems that real sales teams rely on every day.

What you’ll own:
	• Fine-tuned prompt systems for each B2B customer
	• Few-shot + multi-step prompt architectures
	• Custom RAG pipelines tailored to sales workflows
	• Continuous model evaluation & iteration using Langfuse
	• Improving realism, objection handling, scoring accuracy, and coaching quality at scale

You should be obsessed with:
	• Prompt reliability under real user behavior
	• Edge cases, drift, hallucinations, and failure modes
	• Measuring prompt/model performance (not vibes)
	• Iterating fast, testing constantly, and shipping improvements daily

You’ll thrive here if you:
	• Think in systems, not single prompts
	• Have built with few-shot prompting, structured outputs, and custom RAG
	• Care deeply about realism and outcomes
	• Want your work used hundreds of times per day by real sales teams

We’re building one of the most advanced AI sales training platforms on the market — and prompt engineering is a core moat, not an afterthought.

If this sounds like you (or someone you know), DM me.

Founder, CloserCoach.ai | Scaling Sales Teams With AI

Vault Sports

Vault Sports is a network of sports betting creators, websites, and media outlets.  All of which drive affiliate traffic to top sports betting, DFS, and iGaming brands.  Our network reaches over 7 million sports fans and bettors across North America - and it's growing daily!

Co-Founder & CEO

SmartSetter

Director of Regional Partnerships

HomeCo Chicago

Client Care Specialist

Just the Bulb

The podcast and media platform, Just the Bulb, focuses on providing resources, guidance, and insight on how one can start to turn the idea in their head into a business. Caleb Dykema hosts the show and brings on guests including business coaches, startup success stories, and current startup founders who are in the process of developing their company.

Caleb Dykema coaches aspiring entrepreneurs and first-time founders and provides the guidance and resources to turn your idea into something significant. Clients experience tenacious motivation and take action on their idea with confidence!

Podcaster

Plexus Corp.

Product Engineer

Product Engineering Intern

University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Caleb Dykema invented 1Swipe which is a device that enables STEM professors to be more efficient in their classrooms by helping to erase whiteboards in a fraction of the time it would normally take with a handheld eraser. Working through the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, he led the design of the prototype, managing the engineering and marketing teams, and coordinating suppliers and resources throughout the duration of the project.

Lead Engineer, Manager - 1Swipe Prototyping

CNH Industrial

Stationed at the R&D facility in New Holland, PA, I worked with various teams in the Case IH flagship combine harvester group including Cab & Chassis, Engine Installation, and Crop Harvesting. A major accomplishment at Case was leading the Engine Installation Team in designing a test stand, testing, and later upgrading the diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) tank. Other accomplishments were several sheet metal and bracket assembly redesign projects in which I reduced the overall cost, the part count, and the redesigns made it easier for production to install.

Product Development Engineer Intern - Case IH Combines

Rite-Hite

I worked at Rite-Hite Doors as a mechanical engineering co-op. My main duties included product research and development, cost reduction efforts, testing of new products, and design of new products. Although I worked mainly with mechanical engineers, I sought to learn the electrical side as well and had several tasks assisting electrical engineers. 

Notable accomplishments:
-Invention and product development of 'Forklift Tine Shovel,' a forklift attachment that eases the 
  movement of very large cargo. 
-Lead the effort for a redesign of a freezer door assembly station and manufacturing process.
-Lead a team in solving an issue involving door panels arriving to the customer damaged.
-Designed and built enclosures for electrical systems including a control box safety cover to protect 
  installers in the event of an explosion.
-Cost reduction of metal and plastic parts through different manufacturing processes that lead to extensive research and testing of different materials.
-Reverse engineering of a new freezer door sealing system.

Mechanical Engineer Intern

DACO Precision, Inc

Fabricated metal parts with punch presses, automatic presses and drill presses, confirmed tolerances using blueprints as a guide, trained new employees, and operated a forklift. Created drawing files of parts for laser cutting using Solidworks.

Manufacturing

Dominion Valley Farm, LLC

I have worked on my family’s pasture-based animal farm since I was young. I have taken care of the animals (pigs, cows, chickens, and turkeys) and have helped direct market our product to various restaurants, stores, and individual customers. Throughout my life I have learned how to run a small business, work on many mechanical systems, and have developed retail experience.

Farm Hand

I grew up on a small chicken farm in Wisconsin.

Turns out you can learn a lot about business managing livestock and milking the family cow by hand.

In college, I fell in love with building cool products to help people. A lot of failed ideas.  But I did patent an education product.

In 2020 I founded Vault Sports. What started as a consumer tech company later evolved into one of the fastest-growing sportsbook affiliate networks in North America. We have a network of websites, creators, and media outlets that promote fantasy and sports betting brands.  DraftKings and FanDuel are a couple of our clients.

A few years into the biz, my co-founder and I got on the Austin Forbes 30 Under 30 List (no, we didn’t pay for it).  We met some awesome people. Can throw the name on the ol’ LinkedIn bio. But nothing more.

My faith is the number one thing in my life. Followed by family. And somewhere after these remains my love for building cool stuff to help people.

I’m blessed. Big things are coming!

Caleb Dykema

Breaking into the US sports betting market…

As a European affiliate…

Not easy.


If this is you, catch me at the ICE / iGB Affiliate conference this week!

We’re partnered with 30+ regulated iGaming brands in the US, we handle all the compliance, and can have you promoting before the Super Bowl.




P.S. Have already been in Spain for a week and have been practicing for late nights 🍻

Co-Founder of Vault Sports • Forbes 30u30 • Christian

It’s 2026, but some iGaming affiliates still feel like they’re stuck in 2018.

Does any of the following sound familiar? Relying on a weekly CSV traffic report. Bugging an account manager for data updates. Hoping you're not using an old outdated affiliate link. Wondering about the status of a payment.

Affiliates shouldn’t have to worry about this stuff anymore!

That’s why we built the Vault Sports dashboard. All data, affiliate links, and status of your payments in one place. Updated daily. Simple.

Looking forward to late nights and catching up with many of you in Barcelona! 🇪🇸 

Message me if you’ll be in town for the iGB conference and want to chat about anything and everything affiliate.

Find us at the iGB Affiliate and ICE Barcelona conferences in a couple weeks!

The US market is a unique one. Let's chat about how we can help you as an affiliate access some of the biggest deals here, while avoiding the pain points.

Deals include regulated sportsbooks, daily fantasy brands, social sportsbooks, prediction markets, and more!


DM our founder, Caleb Dykema, or shoot an email to info@vaultsportshq.com if you want to connect.

It's a data nightmare for sports betting affiliates in the US.

Every sportsbook has a different way of reporting data.

Some books use various dashboards
Some a daily CSV
And some send weekly PDF reports 😵‍💫

So your data is siloed, inconsistently formatted, and there's no single source of truth.

Our affiliates don't have to deal with that. They log into Vault and see every major U.S. sportsbook, DFS, sweeps, and prediction market. All in one dashboard, updated daily, displayed the same way.

Comment “Dashboard” and I’ll send you a video tour of it👇

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