STRONGEST AI

Strongest AI is a cloud-based platform and toolkit for building best-in-class fitness apps.

We've invested more than $1,000,000 into building a robust platform and reference implementation for iPhone & Apple Watch that will save your team hundreds of thousands of dollars in development expense and accelerate your time-to-market by more than a year!

Learn more about what you can build with Strongest AI by trying out our reference implementation at https://strongest.app (or search for "Strongest AI" in the App Store.)

Founder & CEO

Built Technologies

In what was a highly operational role, I had the remarkable opportunity to lead the broader Delivery Team that spanned nearly fifty people across Product, Engineering, Implementations, and Support.

I collaborated daily with the CEO and other key leaders to establish strategy, define operating principles, and refine plans that impacted nearly every aspect of the company during an intense period of substantial growth following Series A funding.

In what was one of the most impactful years of my life, the team substantially grew revenue, increased headcount, and improved the cloud based technology that is transforming a multi-trillion dollar global industry.

Chief Technology Officer

O'Reilly Media

I've independently authored several books for O'Reilly Media (Dojo: The Definitive Guide, Mining the Social Web, 21 Recipes for Mining Twitter, and PayPal APIs: Up and Running (2e)) and consulted on numerous efforts ranging from technical review of titles such as Programming Collective Intelligence, Algorithms in a Nutshell, and JavaScript: The Definitive Guide to internal data mining and web app development projects.

Author & Speaker

Zaffra, LLC

Zaffra is a boutique consulting firm that I used for advising early stage companies and providing consultative support on special projects.

Managing Partner

Digital Reasoning

I lead technology, data science, and intellectual property strategy for the company.  Our software products transform everyday sources of human communication into rich contextual graphs of knowledge that can be queried to answer questions about entities and relationships in time and space.

I managed a software development process and lead a team of 20+ talented engineers and scientists, and together, we have built and shipped multiple versions of Synthesys, an unstructured data analytics product that transforms raw data into queryable knowledge. The current version of Synthesys resolves the identities of entities and relationships across hundreds of millions of documents on scalable commodity hardware in a computationally efficient manner.

Vice President, Engineering

I was originally hired into Digital Reasoning to productize research efforts, and several key aspects of my work helped lead to the inception of an unstructured data analytics software product that combined natural language processing, named entity recognition, and semantic noun clustering into an integrated software development kit. The maturation of this product later became known as Synthesys.

Director of Research Solutions

Dojo Foundation

I authored Dojo: The Definitive Guide, published by O'Reilly Media in Jun 2008, and worked closely with core contributors and committers to smooth out API wrinkles, update documentation, and fix bugs. Dojo: TDG was the first book of its kind and set the standard for many books to come on JavaScript toolkits.

Open Source Contributor

United States Air Force

As an active duty Air Force officer, I supported the 789th Communications Squadron (Andrews AFB, MD) as a Program Manager.  

As a reservist, I supported the Defense Intelligence Agency (Bolling AFB, Washington DC) as an open source researcher on advanced web development technologies that could be used to modernize application development across the enterprise.

Communications Officer

Sun Microsystems

As a consultant at Sun Microsystems, I provided subject matter expertise and advised the Sun Convergence team on web application development with Ajax development patterns in order to upgrade the client side code for the Sun Convergence product (See http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunConvergence/Home).

Principal Software Engineer

Parsons

During a transition period, I worked briefly as a senior software engineer at the Parsons Corporation where I assisted the company with deploying a sensitive project for the Department of Homeland Security at various security checkpoints owned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Senior Software Engineer

White Oak Technologies

At White Oak, I led the development of a classified software project that was built from scratch to solve a strategic problem. As part of this role, I deployed to central Asia to learn more about the problem we were solving, collect requirements directly from users, and accelerate the adoption of the project.

Computer Scientist

I’m obsessed with optimizing human performance: body, mind, and soul.

I believe that entrepreneurism is a spiritual journey.

One of my favorite mental models for life is framing it as a multi-objective optimization problem.

I’m learning to be satisfied with the outcome when I’ve truly given my best effort.

I appreciate clear thinking, especially first-principles thinking.

I’m too skeptical to willingly outsource my thinking to others.

I’m a builder, and I enjoy the grind of putting in a good day of work.

I tend to get grumpy when I don’t exercise, and I believe that barbell medicine is some of the best medicine.

I’m creating a platform for fitness creators that is the beginning of something great.

Matthew Russell

Step by Step Exit

Step by Step Exit is the leading "Exit Readiness" planning firm exclusively for businesses running on the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS®). We integrate a proprietary process, model, and tools with EOS® to maximize value and Exit Readiness for EOS business owners. Our mission is to guide entrepreneurs/owners to be always "Exit-Ready" no matter if they are looking to sell in 10 years or next month!

Visionary

EOS Worldwide

A Professional EOS Implementer® is someone who helps entrepreneurial leaders:

-Achieve companywide alignment on their vision.
-Gain real traction against that vision.
-Create healthy teams and culture through masterful EOS implementation. 

EOS Implementers use the proven, simple, and practical tools of EOS to help leaders strengthen all Six Key Components™ of their business.

Implementers are experts at:

-TEACHING every tool in the EOS Toolbox™
-FACILITATING clarity, alignment, and resolution
-COACHING EOS® purity and accountability, and helping the leadership team become its best

EOS Implementer

BatteriesIncluded.com

President / Entrepreneur

M&A and Wealth Transfer Conference

M&A is and has been a viable option for growth and transition. In the past several years the world has been experiencing the largest transition of wealth it has ever seen. Ten trillion dollars will transfer over the next decade.

M&A and Wealth Transfer Conference is about the JOURNEY. If you have considered M&A as a growth strategy or as a possible exit then where do you begin? Who can you speak with?

We have brought together world class experts in the Entrepreneurial world to create the M&A movie which depicts what you don't want to happen, and the book Finish Strong which outlines the members of a team you may want to have. We spoke with thousands of business owners, CPA's and M&A advisors to aggregate this information.

We bundled this information together with Strategy, Organization and Preparedness and now are presenting this to you for your journey.

Managing Director

Loftopia

Niche Retail, LLC

Various Companies

➤ Partner – American Brick Company – 06/2010 to 08/2013
➤ Board Member – Jewish Federation of Metropolitan/Tamarack Camps Niche Retail, LLC, Sylvan Lake, MI – 06/2010 to 02/2014
➤ Entrepreneur – 3D New Media, Birmingham, MI – 01/1998 to 01/2001
➤ Entrepreneur – Virtual Courtroom, Inc – Birmingham, MI – 01/1997 to 01/1998

Additional Work History

↳ Leadership Team Builder 🚀 EOS Implementer 🔥 Growth Hacker 🧡 Remote/Hybrid Teams 🧡 Digital EOS Tools & Implementation. xCTO of EOS. 25+ years of EOS exp. as an Entrepreneur & Implementer; read my story in TRACTION!

EOS has been central to my entrepreneurial journey, from working with Gino in the late '90s (even transcribing his Traction notes) to implementing EOS at Niche Retail (featured in Traction) and leading the EOS technology team, including training 1000+ Implementers and launching EOS One.  After selling my company to EOS in 2020, I've returned to my roots as an EOS Implementer and startup visionary.

I thrive on helping growing entrepreneurs, bringing a tech-forward, digital-first approach to EOS implementation (using virtual whiteboards like Miro). I work seamlessly with in-person, hybrid, and virtual teams via Zoom.  Modern tech allows me to create client-specific microsites (e.g., https://issuesolving.com/90) and even AI-powered "deep dive" podcasts of homework (e.g., the Hedgehog Concept: https://resetyourthinking.com/hhc).

With 20 years of EOS Implementer experience (both for my own companies and at EOS Worldwide), I've learned from the best, including Gino, Mike Paton, and CJ Dube. My implementation style is rooted in EOS purity, open honesty, and a focus on data-driven decisions for maximum profitability and the greater good.

Recognizing the coming "silver tsunami" of business transitions, I founded Step By Step Exit (stepbystepexit.com) to help EOS-run organizations prepare for and execute successful exits or M&As.  EOS creates well-run companies, but entrepreneurs need guidance to maximize value during transitions.  We use EOS execution concepts to combat predatory buyers and ensure optimal outcomes.

Tyler Smith

Your company can’t scale—or sell—if it still revolves around you. Succession is not about replacing the founder; it’s about future-proofing the mission. When your leadership team can run the business without you, you gain freedom and value. That’s what exit readiness looks like.

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EOS Implementer, Author of Exit Ready for EOS & Visionary of StepByStepExit.com. 30+ years of EOS experience as an Entrepreneur, Implementer & CTO/CMO of EOS; read my story in TRACTION!

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