Case studies for grounded teams

Motion, Shoelace, and HelloHost highlight hands-on work shipping sales + marketing systems, workflow automations, and internal tools with clarity—no fluff.

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Motion

GTM Engineering Lead

VisitOpen Motion website

Built scalable GTM systems that enabled personalized outbound and onboarding at scale—unlocking revenue growth without increasing headcount.

  • Designed personalized prospecting and landing page systems at scale

  • Reduced outbound effort from months of manual work to hours

  • Improved activation, demos booked, and revenue efficiency

Result: Faster time-to-value, higher engagement, and GTM systems that compound.

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Shoelace

First engineering hire / Operations automation

VisitOpen Shoelace website

Built high-leverage internal systems that transformed an early SaaS into a scalable, tech-enabled agency—allowing each account manager to manage 100+ clients instead of the industry standard 10–15.

  • Automated onboarding, ad setup, and campaign launches

  • Reduced ad launch time from 15 minutes to ~1 minute

  • Enabled sustainable scale without increasing headcount

Result: High-leverage automation enabled a SaaS-turned-agency to scale profitably, allowing each account manager to handle 100+ clients without increasing headcount.

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HelloHost

Back-end contractor

VisitOpen HelloHost website

Built the core back-end system behind a conversational AI product and took it from idea to live beta users in under six weeks—unblocking a critical conference demo and early customer onboarding.

  • Architected the back end end-to-end, including booking platform integrations.

  • Supported onboarding of multiple hosts with multiple listings during beta.

  • Delivered a handover-ready system so the team could keep shipping.

Result: The core back-end system was designed, built, and shipped end-to-end in under six weeks, taking the product from zero to real users in time for a make-or-break conference.

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Workflow wins

Diagnosis bot for support tickets

Automatically reads each ticket, suggests what the issue might be, and routes it to the right team.

Reduced triage time and kept engineers focused on actual fixes.

Outbound personalization + adaptive landing pages

Automated campaigns that change messaging + hero content based on where the prospect comes from.

Campaigns feel bespoke even at scale and tie back to revenue teams.

Expense-forward parser → accounting upload

Forward invoices via email, parse the PDF, and push the data into accounting software automatically.

Saved operations hours each month and eliminated manual entry mistakes.