Burt Steingraeber Consulting

Burt Steingraeber (Wisconsin)  the founder of this consulting firm and has over 15 years of senior business and Social Media marketing experience. His specialty is inbound marketing, making your phone ring. Being knowledgeable in social media keeps your overhead lower than traditional marketing avenues.

We don't believe in blasting your message to a large group, rather target your message to the correct social media audience should be your goal. It is more effective and cost friendly. If you leverage your social media correctly you will see some direct results.

Burt will work with the largest and most recognizable companies, brands and celebrities in the world. 

Our goal is make you the "Go To Person" in your industry.

Some notable projects include:
General sales and marketing strategy
Social media marketing
Social Media - Facebook Sales
LinkedIn Branding
Twitter Marketing
Facebook Social Media Marketing
Social Media Branding in general
PPC Assistance
SEO Oversight (organic SEO)
Social Media Content Marketing

Business Development & Awareness

Social Media and Business strategists assist and help organizations generate leads, increase traffic and raise client engagement. Building organizational efficiency through brand awareness is an optimal process.

Specializing in the following:
How to use Facebooks for business and social media marketing
How to use Facebook for social Media and train for you business.
How to increase overall brand awareness and use of "opt-ins"
How to convert social media leads in paying business
Using Social Media for non-profits

Social Media Branding Strategies| Business Consultant|CEO

Burt Steingraeber Consulting LLC - www.BurtSteingraeber.Com

Wisconsin based providing superior business branding (Social Media) marketing exposure ideas (SEO |SEM) and tactics to get you or your company noticed. Have been providing business development ideas for social media for business, merging PR , social  development. I  will take you to the next level and leverage the power of Linkedin, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook. I am currently accepting  clients not only in Wisconsin but in all 50 states.

Burt also specializes in  social online-communities / social crm ,positioning, brand building, growing and managing. He offers numerous affordable plans to help you succeed and meet your business goals.

People and companies not only in Wisconsin,  hire Burt to learn about Social Media, SEO and general business consulting. 

Contact Burt via phone or email for a private consultation just mention you're a Linkedin Connection when calling!

Business Consulting & Marketing & Branding Management

Confidential Milwaukee Manufacturer

Financial Controller

WisconsinQuickbooks.com

Providing individual accounting and bookkeeping services for the small business and private sector.

Heavy experience in Quickbooks and am a Quickbooks Pro Advisor. Meaning, I can provide training and technical assistance for all  Quickbooks software for individuals or small groups. If you have a temporary vacancy, I can discuss provideing Quickbooks coverage during this time.

With the array of Intuit Quickbooks products out for 2013, Enterprise, Premier and Pro and still the main accounting software packages sold today.  Call Burt directly to discuss which option may be best for you and your company.

Owner

Local Manufacturing Firm

I oversee all accounting and marketing aspects at this medium sized Manufacturing firm. We currently have 45 employees and are in a hiring process currently. I also review the branding and Social media outlets for the firm.

Recently we have branched out into obtaining Government bid contracts.

C.F.O

First Weber Group

Assisted buyers and sellers who were in the need for commercial and residential real estate.

Realtors

NBFD

Firefighter

Why Burt Steingraeber is the Business Consultant You Need

In a business world that’s constantly evolving, finding the right partner for public relations and business consulting is crucial. Burt Steingraeber is the clear choice for companies in the Midwest and beyond, looking for a reliable, cost-effective partner. With over 24 years of experience in business accounting, branding, and general marketing, Burt offers a unique perspective on achieving success in today’s fast-paced marketplace.

The Burt Steingraeber Difference

Burt’s wealth of experience spans multiple industries, which equips him with a broad skill set that can benefit any business, whether you're focused on financial analysis, brand strategy, or growing your market presence. As a strategic business consultant, Burt leverages his battle-tested knowledge to help his clients achieve their business goals. He is dedicated to offering personalized, actionable strategies that drive results.

How Burt Works

It all starts with a complimentary 30-minute strategy session. This is an opportunity for you to discuss your public relations or business challenges and goals. Burt uses this time to assess what’s affecting your company’s growth, offering a high-level evaluation of your current strategies. From there, Burt will recommend the best next steps to help your business or personal brand reach its full potential. His recommendations are rooted in over two decades of firsthand business experience and strategic insight.

What Makes Burt Steingraeber Stand Out

When you work with Burt, you’re getting more than just advice — you’re receiving one-on-one service directly from him. Unlike larger consulting firms, where your file may be passed along to an associate or third party, Burt ensures you get his personal attention and expertise. With over 21 years of experience as a CFO, Controller, Realtor, and private business owner, Burt has the hands-on knowledge to deliver the results you need.

Ready to Talk?

Whether you're looking to solve specific business challenges or simply need guidance on your next steps, Burt Steingraeber is the consultant who can take your business to the next level. Schedule your complimentary business strategy session today to start turning your challenges into opportunities.

Burt Steingraeber -Global Business Operator

True or False  (but why?)

42% of companies scrapped their AI projects this year, a sharp rise from 17% last year. 

This highlights a trend in project initiation and abandonment.

Burt Steingraeber

You built the expertise. I’ll build the audience. | Making executives impossible to ignore | Owner of @DirectSourceAI | Top 4% on LI

Chasing trends feels like momentum, but it’s often just distraction. 

Real influence comes from aligning your content with your core principles and the challenges your audience actually faces. 

Write less about what’s new — write more about what works. That’s how you build lasting influence.

Most professionals don’t lack expertise — they lack visibility.

 What sets leaders apart isn’t talent, it’s the willingness to show their work consistently.

 If your peers know you’re good but the market doesn’t, you don’t have a skill problem — you have an exposure problem.

 Fix that, and everything else moves with it.

Reputation used to spread by word-of-mouth.

 Today it spreads by what people see you say and watch you do online.
 A strong reputation can shorten sales cycles, open doors you didn’t knock on, and attract opportunities you never pitched.

 It’s the most valuable asset you’ll build in your career — treat it that way.

Everyone talks about posting more — but the real win isn’t frequency, it’s depth. 

Shares that teach something, comments that spark conversations, and insights that only you could write are the currency of trust. 

When your posts feel like consulting instead of noise, LinkedIn stops being a platform and starts being a pipeline.

The Silent Crisis in AI: Thousands of Abandoned Projects—And the Opportunity They Create

The AI boom has unleashed a wave of innovation unlike anything we’ve seen in decades. New tools, models, automations, dashboards, and micro-SaaS ideas appear every single day. Yet behind the excitement lies a growing and often overlooked reality: an enormous number of AI projects are abandoned before they ever reach their potential.

Developers and founders worldwide have half-finished tools sitting in private repos, early-stage agents left untouched for months, and powerful ideas trapped at 70% completion. Not because the creators lack skill—far from it—but because life, timing, resources, get in the way.
This phenomenon has quietly become one of the most significant missed opportunities in today’s AI landscape.
The truth is clear: AI creators don’t have the time, structure, or business support to finish, package, and monetize what they’ve built. 

Unfinished Doesn’t Mean Unvaluable
Most abandoned AI tools already contain tremendous value:
Functioning back-end logic
Niche use-cases with real market demand
Core automation workflows
Working models needing only refinement
Tools that solve problems founders originally built just for themselves
These aren’t failures. They’re assets waiting for direction, structure, and representation.

Finishing an AI project requires more than code. It requires:
Positioning
Market alignment
Business modeling
Packaging
Messaging
Strategic buyer outreach
And that’s exactly where I come in.

Where I Fit Into This Hidden Market
I work directly with AI developers, founders, and technical creators to help them complete, position, and potentially sell or scale their unfinished projects. With my background in business consulting, operations, PR, valuation strategy, and developer outreach, I act as the bridge between raw innovation and commercial opportunity.

Most creators don’t need more hours in the day—they need someone who can:
Evaluate what they’ve built
Identify the fastest path to completion
Determine its market value
Package the project professionally
Help secure users, buyers, or partners
Increase visibility and credibility
Guide the project toward real-world traction

AI creators shouldn’t feel stuck or overwhelmed. With the right support, these tools can move from abandoned to acquired, from good ideas to revenue-producing assets.

The Market Is Ready—But Developers Need a Partner
Businesses want AI solutions now. They aren’t waiting for perfection; they’re waiting for functionality. If your tool solves a problem, even partially, there is a market for it. Investors and operators are actively searching for projects they can revive and grow. That’s why this moment matters.The industry isn’t suffering from a lack of innovation.

If you're a developer or founder with an unfinished AI tool—or if you want help positioning a project for acquisition or strategic exposure—I’m here to help guide the process.

Burt Steingraeber

You’ll never “hack” your way to authority with one viral post. 

What works long-term is showing up with consistent, relevant insights that make your audience think differently. 

When people start saying “Finally someone who gets it,” that’s when momentum begins — even without paid tools.

Most buyers don’t like, comment, or engage.

 But they see your posts, read your insights, and form an opinion long before they reach out.

 This is why consistency matters — your silent audience is often your most valuable one.

 Speak to them even if you can’t see them.

AI is moving so fast that thousands of tools and projects get abandoned before they ever reach the market. 

Most are 60–90% finished and full of untapped value. I help developers and founders evaluate, position, and revive these assets—turning idle code into real opportunities and revenue. 

If you’ve built something but never finished it, I can help you bring it to the finish line.

I'm sure many people have used AI for holiday shopping suggestions.

According to an Associated Press poll, most Americans have noticed higher prices on everything from groceries to utilities, and they're planning to spend less this holiday season as a result.

Cash-strapped Americans turn to AI for holiday shopping help

People don’t buy services from strangers — they buy from people they feel they know. 

Real authority is built when your content feels like a conversation, not a sales pitch. Share challenges you’ve solved, decisions you’ve wrestled with, and lessons that changed how you work. 

That’s where real dialogue starts.

Eric Basu

Haiku, Inc

Haiku is a 2024 winner of the DARPA Tools Competition in the "Building an Advanced and Competitive Workforce" track, one of six winners selected from over 250 applicants.  Haiku is backed by Kelly Ventures and The Veteran Fund.

Haiku is the leader in gamified learning platforms (according to ChatGPT!) and has built a worldwide audience for our games encompassing consumers, businesses, government and educational institutions.  We worked with organizations such as Carnegie Mellon University to integrate learning engineering into our platform, creating a unique learning experience that can't be replicated through traditional learning, cyber ranges, or classic cybersecurity video games.

Haiku's patented platform allows the creation of 'Digital Twins' of computer networks in the Unity game engine to create game-based training, model and simulate cyber attacks, and use AI to determine the most effective cyber defenses. Haiku is used by businesses, government agencies, K-12 schools, homeschoolers, and higher education institutions around the world.  We are the most effective way to teach students career cybersecurity skills at a young age due to our unique game-based immersion format.  We have won numerous awards, including the SDBJ award for Cybersecurity Workforce Innovation in 2023 and 2023 and the 2023 and 2024 Fast Company Innovation by Design award winner in the Security category.  https://www.haikuinc.io

Chief Executive Officer

The Veteran Fund

The Veteran Fund is an early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley that invests in military veteran-led technology startups. 


The Veteran Fund finds, funds, and scales top performing startups within the military veteran and spouse community by leveraging our unique access to the global startup ecosystem and our partners' experience launching thousands of startups worldwide. 


Learn more and get involved: https://www.veteran.fund

Limited and Venture Partner

San Diego Cyber Center of Excellence (CCOE)

Founder and member of the Board of Directors, responsible for the standup, oversight, and management of the non-profit. The San Diego CCOE is dedicated to making the greater San Diego region into a Cyber Security Center of Excellence, resulting in an increase in jobs, talent, and capital in the cyber security vertical to the region.

Founder and Member Board of Directors

Fast Company

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only collective of innovative leaders and the most creative people in business. The group meets several times a year for live events, roundtable discussions, and virtual sessions on some of the most promising opportunities and most pressing challenges of our time, and the role companies and council members can play in shaping the future.

Fast Company Impact Council Member

Saved In America

Saved In America is a non-profit that helps rescue and rehabilitate trafficked children.  Saved in America has rescued over 200 children at zero cost to the families over 3 years.  They employ former SEALs and Law Enforcement officers to work with local law enforcement to track down, rescue, and return children to their families.

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation (LVMPD Foundation) – the Friends of Metro – is a 501(c)3 non- profit organization that raises funds to support and supplement Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department programs and initiatives.

The LVMPD Foundation was established in 1999 and is dedicated to supporting LVMPD area commands, special units, equipment, training, and hundreds of community engagement programs and initiatives that build relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve.

Member Board of Directors Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Dept Foundation

Sentek Global (acquired by Deloitte)

Founder and CEO. Built Sentek to become the largest small defense contractor in its region.  Sold Sentek to Deloitte in July 2021.

As CEO, I built Sentek's business development team from scratch into a team that secured contracts exceeding $150M.  I also developed a comprehensive customer lifecycle management strategy that focused on continually adding value to our customers by leveraging innovation to help them achieve their mission more effectively. 

Sentek is a leader in Cyber Security and Technology Solutions for government and commercial clients.  Sentek has both broad and deep experience and qualifications in C4ISR and Information Assurance.  In the commercial Information Security arena we provide a variety of services leveraging over a decade of security military information systems. We provide engineering and program management support to government and commercial customers around the world.
 
Sentek's management team includes both retired senior military and commercial executives, each with decades of experience in areas such as IT architecture, Information Security, Encryption, Risk Management, and C2 systems. Our professionals have developed a reputation for providing unique expertise to assist our clients in meeting their requirements, expanding their programs and accomplishing their missions. We are an SDB, SDVOSB and CA certified DVBE.  

Sentek has received numerous citations to include the 2007 Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies (#269),2008, 2010 and 2012 Inc 5000, 2007-2013 San Diego Business Journal 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies, and the 2007-2013 Washington Fast 50.

Global Entertainment Security

Co-Founded, built and managed company with a national presence in over 20 cities, providing unique security services to the entertainment industry domestically and abroad. Services were focused upon intellectual property protection, executive protection and other specialized security services.  GES had offices in San Diego, Los Angeles, and New York, over 400 agents and a client base of Fortune 100 clients.  Sold the company in July 2006 to private investors.

President

US Navy Reserve

Served as XO and acting CO at Reserve SEAL Team 3.

Naval Special Warfare Officer (Commander, SEAL)

Alitum

Chief technical architect, product development manager, and project manager for a Knowledge Management Portal product integrated with underlying financial applications.

Chief Portal Architect

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Haiku Inc

As the CEO of Haiku Inc, I am passionate about creating innovative and engaging games that teach real-world cybersecurity skills and connect players to career opportunities. With over 20 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur and investor in the cybersecurity and technology sectors, I have founded and led multiple successful startups, such as Sentek Global, a leading provider of government and commercial cybersecurity solutions, and the San Diego Cyber Center of Excellence, a nonprofit organization that fosters the growth and development of the cybersecurity ecosystem in the region.

I leverage my diverse background and expertise in gaming, cybersecurity, business development, public speaking, government contracting, and military special operations to build and scale high-performance teams, create value from ideas, and solve complex problems. As a former SEAL officer in the U.S. Navy, I have a strong sense of mission, leadership, and resilience, and I aim to inspire and empower others to achieve their full potential. I am also an active member of the board of directors and advisor to several organizations that support law enforcement, military veterans, and education, such as the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation, the Veteran Fund, and Saved In America.

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