I make companies AI native, including my own.
Product leader and full-stack engineer. Sometimes that means embedding inside a company like Filevine or Gusto and winning it over demo by demo. Sometimes it means running my own: Paintball Vault, the marketplace I operate alone on Randal, the agent platform I built.
- filevine
- flagship agent shipped · ~½ of ARR
- gusto
- agent framework behind Gus
- paintball-vault
- $1M+ and growing · headcount: just me
- randal
- the chassis running it all
I built my own agent harness. Everything I ship runs on it.
Randal is the agent harness I built to run my own companies, and the platform most of my AI-native work ships on. It's a native Mac app with durable memory, schedules, real channels, and model routing: agents that use your apps the way you do, learn a workflow by watching you once, and keep working alongside always-on cloud bots. Scoped, permissioned, private by default.
It's a real product, open for sign-ups today, and the same chassis that runs the marketplace with a headcount of one.
How I make an org AI native
Embed, don't advise
I join the team as an operator: I write the code and own the product, instead of sending recommendations in from the outside.
Demo, don't deck
Working software wins arguments. I get demos in front of the right people, then sit with each team to land what actually ships.
Ship, then make it stick
One feature was never the goal. I leave behind platforms, patterns, and teams that keep building after I'm gone.
Proof, in production
Led the Agent Framework behind Gus
Set technical and product direction for the AI platform under Gusto's internal tools and customer-facing products — and won a large org over with working demos.
Built the flagship AI agent from scratch
Walked into a legal-tech company, wrote the first agent myself, and shipped the product now driving about half its ARR — ahead of a $400M raise at a ~$3B valuation.
Built my own AI chassis — and run companies on it
The agent harness behind my businesses and client work, now a product anyone can sign up for at randal.bot. One person plus agents, running whole companies.
Founded a $1M+ marketplace I run alone
The first marketplace built for the sport I played professionally for nearly twenty years — designed, shipped, and operated by one person on agents I built myself.
One developer, a whole product line
Sole developer of the web app and the native-app rebuild as CPO — both still in production today.
Fifteen years of shipping came first.
Product and engineering lead for Reverb Sites and Reverb Lessons. Brand launches from a private equity portfolio to Chicago restaurants. The full archive runs back to 2010.
I'm Drew. I live in St. Charles, Illinois with my wife and daughter, and when I'm not building agents I'm on a paintball field — a sport I've competed in professionally for nearly twenty years. More about me →