Vetted Co-Founders

Teage Johnson

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and machine learning

California, USA3y exp

“Software engineer at early-stage startup Cari with hands-on experience shipping AI-enabled production workflows, including an LLM chatbot for a micro-transit platform and an automated image-processing pipeline integrated with Claude. Stands out for combining practical agent reliability patterns—schema validation, fallbacks, caching, and idempotency—with strong ML evaluation instincts and experience cleaning messy operational invoice data.”

“Founder building an enterprise AI SaaS platform for complex, asset-intensive industries, targeting fragmented-data and manual planning workflows with an AI-native, explainable scenario-analysis product. Bootstrapped to date with production platform in active enterprise trials/pilots and preparing for an institutional seed raise; emphasizes workflow integration, ROI proof points, and founder-led GTM.”

“Full-stack engineer with early-stage startup experience who shipped and owned production Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) features end-to-end, including auth-aware APIs, caching, and post-launch monitoring/iteration. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability chops across React UX optimization, Postgres analytics modeling/query tuning (validated via query plans), and durable ingestion workflows with retries/idempotency.”

Corbin Ward

Screened

Junior Product Manager / APM specializing in data tools, CMS platforms, and AI-enabled products

San Jose, CA1y exp

“Data Software Tools Analyst at Q.ai through rapid growth and a $2B Apple acquisition who led an internal CMS for participant/PII workflows using Next.js (App Router) + FastAPI/Postgres with strong security controls (JWT + Postgres RLS). Also drove a major frontend architecture shift toward React Server Components, reporting ~4x faster page loads, and has experience building durable realtime collaboration systems with Supabase/SvelteKit and server-centric state management.”

“Three-time co-founder with experience building both bootstrapped and funded startups, including raising $150K personally and advising companies that raised $500K+ in angel and pre-seed capital. Brings unusually broad startup operating range across customer discovery, product, GTM, hiring, legal, fundraising, and VC/studio mechanics, with entrepreneurial experience dating back to childhood and multiple business exits in college.”

“Serial founder with experience across both bootstrapped and venture-backed startups, including scaling Aloa past $1M in first-year revenue and raising $1.3M for Bracketology, a fantasy gaming platform for reality TV now in sale process. Combines sales, marketing, product, automation, and AI implementation experience, with exposure to WeFunder, Newchip, and 1871 as both participant and mentor.”

Mac Tichner

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in full-stack platforms and AI integration

Miami, FL14y exp

“Serial entrepreneur and software engineer currently ideating a B2B vertical AI SaaS company with seed funding secured, using a custom-built AI agent to generate and vet startup ideas. Previously sold a software product (AskDiagnostic) into physician offices and spun an observed workflow gap into an in-house compounding solution, including a <3-minute dispensing process and supporting software for inventory, compliance, labeling, reorders, billing, and reporting.”

“President/founder of Kazenet, an early-stage no-code, compliance-focused recurring-revenue SaaS platform with customers and ~$200K revenue YTD, currently preparing a seed raise targeting angels/seed investors. Also mentors founders at C10 (Kendall Square venture studio), bringing hands-on experience scaling revenue, teams, and new verticals across US and international markets.”