Brett Butler MBA FMVA®

Sales Director

Founder & CEO @ Brass Synergy — the vetted, talent ecosystem for Web3 professionals.

I’ll never forget the lemonade stand I ran when I was eight years old.

It only brought in $100…

But that hustle inspired me to try real estate, forex & stock trading

Ultimately allowing me to build a credit services company from 0 to $5M ARR.

And college? Graduated with a double major and double minor — but I was restless.

And with $5K in graduation money, I went all in on cryptocurrency—

And in 6 months, that investment multiplied to $250K.

I felt unstoppable, scaling a startup’s community to 50,000 and its market cap to over $100M.

But then it happened—

The founder did a rug pull; crashing the project, wiping out millions & turned my world upside down.

I had my Mike Tyson moment—realizing everyone’s got a plan ‘til they get punched in the mouth.

I had no choice but to keep going. So, I pivoted back to financial consulting, managing $50M.

But my entrepreneurial passion persisted.  

I went all in to find answers, and noticed something remarkable.

I connected with countless freelancers, professionals, & companies all who had a similar story.

Applying for countless roles to find out the company or role wasn’t legitimate.

Performing work and not getting paid or taking weeks to receive payment on freelancing platforms.

Or hiring someone only to receive late or poor quality work, costing much needed time and money

I knew there had to be a better way to network, transact, and source talent in a transparent way.

I just needed a sign and during my conversations I made a striking discovery.

Freelancers and Web3 users share a striking resemblance—

70% were millennials and Gen Z with similar age ranges, locations, and interests.

And when the world went remote, it was my cue that now was the time.

HireSphere AI was born—

An AI Powered, full automated, talent verification, recruitment, and workforce management platform with a global verified talent marketplace. 

A fusion of Web3, AI, and Blockchain revolutionizing how people hire and work 
→ Understanding what makes people top performers AND how to consistently validate those skills through robust interviews with deep people science
-> Creating digitally verifiable on-chain profiles to build trust & safety
-> Augmenting the process with AI to match talent with jobs, streamline hiring and verify history
-> Ultimately building the world's best verified global talent marketplace that supports fiat & crypto payments & rewards active members 

I started with a lemonade stand and a dream…

Now we have a global council of the world's best helping us.

And the best part is I’m just getting started.

Owner

• Serve as a consultant to educate individuals/businesses regarding Financial Wellness, Investment Due Diligence, Risk Management, and Financial Planning

• Services include Financial Goal Setting, Facilitating Education Webinars, 1 on 1 Conversations, Debt Management Strategies, Life Event Planning, and much more

• Assists startup clients with financial modeling beginning with identifying potential revenue drivers and assumptions to quantify those drivers.  Used information to create custom financial model for current/potential investors to secure additional capital.

• Currently working on my CFP designation (2023 estimated completion)

Brett Butler

🚨 Struggling to build your software product? You're not alone.

Most of my clients had one or more of these problems:

1. Hard to find reliable software engineers
2. Poor communication with their dev team
3. No clear product plan or execution
4. Projects not delivered as promised

🛠 I help founders fix them with this action plan:

1. Ask the right questions to clarify your product vision

2. Give a free audit of your PRD, UI, and prototypes

3. Provide an instant team tailored to your needs (Product advisor, Designer, Developers)

✅ Here’s what you get with us:

- Full transparency
- Smooth communication
- You control 100%  of the tech from day one

🌟 See what clients say about us on Clutch: 

https://clutch.co/profile/politetech-software

🎁 Free Gift: Grab my FREE guides to build Prototypes/MVPs by yourself (link in my Featured section).

🚀 Need an instant team to build or scale your product? Connect and DM me anytime.

Anh Nguyen

I hired an engineer who hates vibe-coding. He was my best hire last year.

While many people trust AI to do the work, he sees it as a junior consultant.

“My colleague vibe-coded and broke the whole architecture” he said.

When we face a problem, he doesn’t jump straight to prompts.

Instead, he asks clarifying questions.

Maps constraints.

Thinks about business impact.

Explains trade-offs.

And only asks AI for ideas when he’s stuck.

What I like the most is:

He teaches younger developers the right mindset.

Checking every line of codes,

Testing all edge cases before delivering,

Building for maintainability.

After 4 months, he earned our trust.

Now he's leading a team of 3 developers and 2 major projects.

This kind of mindset is rare in the age of vibe-coding.

It should be protected.

I helped 50+ founders build & scale apps/platforms. Co-Founder at Politetech. Need instant developers to build software? Let’s chat | Grab FREE tools in my Featured.

A founder shared he vibe-coded 3 apps in 4 months and spent $6k on tokens but none of them passed $100 MRR.

The first one is an pitch deck maker tool.

The second is a productivity app.

The last one is a content app.

He thought he was moving fast with codes generated in minutes.

It was just a fake progress.

Because he never validated his ideas.

He built to catch the trends.

All three apps were easy to build with AI.

They looked cool in demos.

But they didn’t stand out while the competition was brutal.

This is the new trap for founders.

Vibe-coding makes you feel the cost of code is lower.

But the cost of wrong assumptions is always expensive.

Always start with validation first no matter how you build.

I just heard a non-tech founder shared his vibe-coding experience over the last 6 months.

He jumped between Cursor, Loveable, Replit, and Claude thinking he’d never need a real engineer.

The initial progress was promising:

Built 3 different MVPs in 2 months.

Acquired some early users.

Got a quick momentum.

Until he faced the roadblocks.

First MVP crashed with 10 users.

Second one had security issues.

Third one became unmaintainable.

The more he hit “Fix it”.

The newer problems appear.

What he got from AI when he knew nothing about coding was:

- Messy codebase

- Weak architecture

- Unprotected endpoints

- Random crashes

- Memory leaks

- Database bottlenecks

- Zero scalability

AI coding is a perfect productivity tool for engineers.

But still a maze for non-tech people trying to build commercial products.

My friend launched a vibe-coded app and got a good number of sign-ups but lost 80% users after 3 days.

He said “It still works for me. I don’t know what’s wrong”.

I looked at his app. It seemed production-ready enough:

- Authentication.
- A real database.
- Sleek interface.
- Payment gate connected.

But when I used it longer, I found many issues:

- User flow was confusing.
- Unnecessary navigation steps.
- Payment failed twice for me.
- A random crash when I entered a wrong input.

Nothing too critical but enough inconvenient to kill my experience.

That's what made users leave and not return. 

I told him:
“You should hire an experience engineer to fix it”

Vibe-coding can only take you this far if you’re non-tech”

Because AI hasn’t surpassed humans at:

- Edge cases.
- UX polish.
- Testing scenarios where features meet.

Building software needs real expertise, coding is only a tool.

A founder asked me to build for equity as he was so confident with his idea. I answered: Okay if you passed my audit.

After my 15 mins, he realized he was missing 5 critical areas.

1, Vision misalignment
No clear user problem defined

2, Incomplete PRD
Undefined core flows

3, Design gaps
No user testing done
No responsive layouts

4, Market blindspots
No unique differentiation

5, Customer validation
No user interviews

After seeing the results, he withdrew his request.

So, I’m sharing my product audit checklist to help founders:

Identify critical gaps.

Fix foundation issues.

Build with confidence.

Each section gives you:

- Clear assessment criteria
- Action items to improve
- Success indicators

Want to audit your building progress?

Comment "audit". I'll share in DM.

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