About

I'm Gabe. I build with people, not for them.

This is a one-person business with a small bench of senior operators when projects need depth. No agency overhead. No consultancy bloat. Direct access, fast cycles, portable artifacts.

The longer version

I trained as a mechanical engineer at MIT, then spent the next decade building software companies. I co-founded Grove Labs out of school — we raised $6M, built a hardware-software product for indoor farming, and got acquired by LG. From there: Imbellus, Revonate (as CTO), Maxable (as CEO), and most recently LeanLaw, where I led product through the company's pivot from SaaS billing into payments and financial services.

Somewhere in there I walked the Appalachian Trail. 2,181 miles. Six months. It taught me a lot of things I still use, but the most useful one was this: the right pack is the one you can actually carry.

I think about software the same way. The right system is the one you can actually run.

Why Fieldwork

The AI revolution is real, but most of what's being sold against it is bad — courses you won't finish, SaaS that locks your data behind someone else's UI, big-firm consultants who hand you a deck and disappear. None of that helps an operator actually use this stuff well.

What does help is sitting with someone, on their real work, and building artifacts they own. That's what I do.

Principles

Sovereignty.

We teach the fundamentals — prompts, context, agents, harnesses — not which SaaS vendor has "AI" stickered on the box. Models get smarter and cheaper every quarter. Teams that own their fluency compound. Teams renting it forever don't.

Capability, not dependency.

When something's worth automating, I build it and hand it over running — but the goal is never to make you need me forever. I train your team to own the fluency: to operate what I build, push it, and spot the next bet themselves. Most vendors leave you renting a tool nobody can run. I'd rather leave your team more capable than I found it.

Operator-rooted.

We've been in the seat — built products, shipped to production, raised capital, sold companies. The coaching comes from scars, not slides.

How I work with others

I'm a one-person business by design — direct access, no overhead. When projects need specialized depth, I bring in a small bench of senior operators I've worked with for years: ex-product, ex-engineering, ex-PE, depending on the engagement. Right-sized teams, no consultancy bloat. You always know who's doing the work.

Outside work

Boise, Idaho. Married to Amanda. Two kids — Winter (2) and Brooks (newborn) — and a dog named Kavu. I try to live what I write about: minimal noise, real artifacts, things you can actually use.

Come spend a day with me.

The AI for Business Leaders intensive — one day in Boise, hands-on. You'll leave fluent, with AI working in your business and your first three moves locked.

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