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I'm a serial entrepreneur and founder of SPARK6, a software and product innovation agency focused on helping companies implement AI-powered solutions that create effective organizations and products people love. 

After a decade of working in robotics, I’ve started and sold several companies in both CPG and software. 

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→ Websites (CMS agnostic) 
→ Custom enterprise software 
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→ E-Commerce platforms (Like Shopify) 
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→ AI strategy, training and change management  
→ Conversational AI experiences for customer service 
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→ Arts  
→ CPG 
→ Telcom
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→ Fit-tech
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→ For-cause
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Elijah Szasz

Most people design AI like it’s a transaction.  

Until they meet a system that doesn’t.

They optimize for efficiency.  
Not empathy.  

For outputs.  
Not outcomes.  

Then I watched a founder who changed everything.  

He built AI that respected the human layer.  
Every user. Every touchpoint. Every signal.  

No hierarchy in its logic.  
No bias in its attention.  
Just systems serving people.  

Years later, I understood why.  
He’d worked support before he built software.  
He knew what it felt like to be unseen.  

“Machines learn from us,” he said.  
“So we better teach them how to see.”  

That stuck with me.  

When you design systems, you design culture.  
Every automation reflects what you value.  
Every workflow encodes your priorities.  

If we build for speed alone,  
we’ll create systems that move fast and miss people.  

But when you build for dignity  
you design tools that scale humanity, not replace it.  

Respect costs nothing.  
Yet it changes everything.  

Not because of what your AI can do for you.  
But because of what it can do *with* you.  

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The people who criticize your progress the loudest

are usually the ones making none of their own.

When I started building AI systems for clients,
a few people assumed I'd lost the plot.

Not quietly either.

I got messages like:
"Isn't this just prompt engineering?"
"Why wouldn't they just use ChatGPT?"
"You're building something that'll be free next year."

What they missed:
progress feels threatening
to anyone who hasn’t moved in a while.

The people who are actually building,
they don’t mock experimentation.

→ Engineers don’t roll their eyes  
  at cleaner system design

→ Operators don’t judge you  
  for automating recurring work

→ Founders don’t laugh  
  at your early prototypes

They get it, because they’ve lived the messy part.

The loudest critics are usually the ones
who never shipped anything uncertain.

They cling to familiar workflows.
They avoid new tools.
They fear being replaced,
so they criticize those who adapt.

Don’t let that noise steal your momentum.

AI is not a trend.
It’s an acceleration layer.
And early movers always look “strange”
to people who stopped moving.

Here’s what critics never see:

→ Your tenth rebuild  
→ Your first broken workflow  
→ Your willingness to learn fast  
→ Your reps with new automations  
→ Your patience while the system stabilizes

They only see the part they can comment on.

So keep going.

Keep refining your internal processes.  
Keep documenting workflows that scale.  
Keep building agents that remove friction.  
Keep designing tools that move work forward.

Because the real risk is not adopting AI too early.
It’s waking up one day and realizing
you outsourced your future to someone braver.

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Mastery isn't taught. 

It's earned in chaos, failure, and fire drills. 

Real mastery shows up when things break  
Not when everything runs clean. 

In AI and automation, the lessons usually arrive as outages,  
bottlenecks, failed handoffs, and edge cases nobody predicted. 

You don’t understand workflow design  
until an automation loops itself at 2am. 

You don’t understand data quality  
until an AI agent makes the wrong decision with confidence. 

You don’t understand systems thinking  
until a “small fix” knocks over three other processes. 

Theory is tidy. 
Systems are messy. 
Only one teaches you how to build for scale. 

Here’s how to use that to your advantage:

1. Ship before you feel ready  
↳ AI models improve in the real world, not in your notebooks  
↳ Deploy fast, observe fast  
↳ Feedback is the real fine-tuning

2. Turn every failure into an architecture upgrade  
↳ Document your last three breakdowns  
↳ Identify the constraint behind each  
↳ Convert those into new rules, guardrails, or automations

3. Say yes to complexity earlier than you want to  
↳ Integrate the tool  
↳ Test the agent  
↳ Connect the systems  
Courage precedes competence in technical environments

In AI, in systems, in business,  
experience is the most expensive education  
but also the one that hardens your intuition. 

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Most people blame the system. 

Here's why few ever build a great one.

They see outcomes and call them luck.  
They don’t see the micro-decisions that made them.

Every result in your life right now  
is a reflection of a system you designed,  
intentionally or not.

Systems are invisible until they break.  
Then suddenly, everyone sees them.

→ The missed workouts.  
→ The reactive emails.  
→ The unplanned meetings.  
→ The unclear goals.  

Tiny leaks.  
Each one insignificant alone.  
Together, they sink the ship.

When founders finally grasp this,  
everything changes.

They stop chasing motivation.  
They start refining inputs.  
They stop blaming outcomes.  
They start building infrastructure.

Because systems don’t care how you feel.  
They care how they’re built.

Every business, every body, every relationship  
runs on feedback loops.  
Good systems amplify the right signals.  
Bad ones multiply noise.

Design replaces blame.  
Iteration replaces excuses.

Want different results?  
Change the system that creates them.

Start small.  
Decide once, automate forever.  
Build a system so solid  
you can trust it on your worst day.

The future doesn’t care what you intend.  
Only what you design.

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Everyone's teaching AI to think like humans.
 
DeepMind did the opposite.
 
They taught it to dream like a system.
 
Most people see AI as the dreamer.
I see it as the mirror.
 
In 2016, AlphaGo made a move no human would make.
Move 37.
Game 2.
 
Experts called it a mistake.
It looked wrong.
Felt wrong.
 
Then it won the game.
 
But here's what that moment really revealed:
 
AlphaGo wasn't trying to think like a human.
It was thinking like a system.
Exploring spaces we couldn't see.
 
And in doing so, it showed us something about ourselves.
 
The best Go players didn't reject that move.
They studied it.
Absorbed it.
Evolved because of it.
 
Lee Sedol, the human champion, said:
"I thought I knew everything about Go.
But AlphaGo showed me I was wrong."
 
That's the mirror effect.
 
AI doesn't just solve problems.
It reveals our blind spots.
Our assumptions.
The dreams we didn't know we had.
 
Here's what most people miss about AI:
 
→ It's not about making machines more human
→ It's about discovering what we haven't seen in ourselves
→ The breakthrough happens when systems challenge our patterns
 
If we design AI to only reflect us,
we miss the point.
 
But if we let it show us what we can't see?
 
That's when both human and machine evolve.
 
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The danger isn't AI, 

It's forgetting how to think without it. 

In a world built on AI,  
the real risk isn’t the tech.  
It’s losing ownership of your own thinking.

Every day, you’re surrounded by systems engineered to decide for you:

→ Feeds that predict what you’ll click  
→ Tools that complete your sentences  
→ Notifications that interrupt your clarity loop
→ Models that shape what you see as “normal”  

These aren’t malicious.  
They’re efficient.  
But efficiency has a hidden cost:  
it quietly lowers your cognitive defenses.

Here’s how I stay intentional while building AI systems for others:

1. Treat your attention as system-critical  
↳ Inputs become beliefs  
↳ Beliefs become decisions  
↳ Decisions shape outcomes  
Your attention is the root function. Guard it.

2. Maintain manual control cycles  
↳ AI should accelerate thinking, not replace it  
↳ Keep moments where your brain runs the process, not the model  
↳ Whiteboard before prompting, reflect before automating

3. Build mental redundancy  
↳ Always ask: “What assumption is this system making?”  
↳ “Does this align with my goals or the algorithm’s goals?”  
↳ Friction isn’t failure, it’s awareness

4. Schedule uninterrupted compute time  
↳ Quiet thinking is becoming a rare advantage  
↳ No tabs, no tools, no suggestions  
↳ Let your internal model run without interference

AI is powerful.  
Systems are powerful.  
But neither has more inherent risk than the mind that stops questioning.

Clarity is your real firewall.  
Everything else is downstream.

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Here's how to scale without burning out.  

But only if you upgrade your thinking.

1️⃣ Manual tasks → Systemized workflows
Most bottlenecks are not skill problems.  
They are system problems.  

🚫 “I’ll just knock this out myself”  
✅ “If I automate this once, I never touch it again.”
When you replace repetition with systems,  
your team stops grinding and starts growing.

2️⃣ Reactive workflows → Proactive intelligence
Most teams wait for problems to appear.  
AI can surface them before they hit your desk.

🚫 “Ping me if something breaks”  
✅ “Let the agent flag issues and route fixes automatically.”
Proactive beats heroic.  
Every single time.

3️⃣ More people → Better leverage
Throwing bodies at complexity does not scale.  
Clear systems do.

🚫 “We need another hire to keep up”  
✅ “We need a workflow that removes the busywork.”
AI agents create leverage that hiring alone cannot.  
They never get tired and they never forget.

4️⃣ Information hoarding → Knowledge activated
Knowledge sitting in docs is wasted potential.  
Knowledge inside workflows is power.

🚫 “The process is written down somewhere”  
✅ “The system triggers the right step at the right time.”
When your SOPs become actions,  
work stops slipping through cracks.

5️⃣ Working harder → Building compounding systems
Hard work is admirable.  
Compounding systems win.

🚫 “I hope I have the energy to push today”  
✅ “My systems push even when I’m tired.”
Momentum doesn’t come from motivation.  
It comes from architecture.

Which shift could create the biggest lift for your team?

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We keep training AI to be more “human.”
 
But half the time, we forget to be.
 
As a founder, it’s easy to get lost in optimization mode.
New systems. New automations. New outcomes.
 
But lately I’ve been thinking
there’s a version of me in 10 years who’ll miss this exact stage:
 
The quiet mornings before the inbox wakes up.
The faces on Zoom I actually *know* by name.
Even the chaos of building something that still feels fragile.
 
So I’ve been slowing my system down, too.
 
Actually tasting my coffee instead of scanning my feed.
Letting a conversation run past the calendar slot.
Listening fully before moving to the next “input.”
 
Because the best systems aren’t just efficient.
They’re human.
They make space for life between the lines of code.
 
AI doesn’t feel nostalgia.
But we do.
 
So maybe the real upgrade is remembering
that the good old days are happening right now.
 
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I watched my AI agent do $2,400 worth of work 

while I sat at my daughter's gymnastics class.

No exaggeration.

I had this moment with my AI agent last week.

I was stuck in our CRM building a report.
The UI was clunky.
The conditional logic made no sense.
And every time GPT suggested a rule,
I’d check the dropdown and it simply wasn’t there.

So I opened the CRM inside Atlas.
I asked my agent what was going on.
It looked at the screen and said,
"You actually need an automation for clean data. Want me to build it?"

Sure. Go for it.

A few minutes later it’s clicking around.
Slowly, but with intent.
Doing something I’d never done before.
Something I’d have needed to learn.

And it worked.

So I queued another task.
And another.
And another.

Fast forward an hour:
I’m at my daughter’s gymnastics class
with five Atlas browser tabs open,
each one quietly grinding through workflows
that used to eat my afternoons alive.

Here’s what hit me in that moment:

→ Speed doesn’t matter if I’m not the one doing the work  
→ Accuracy improves when the system can see the actual UI  
→ The mental tax of “I’ll do it later” disappears when an agent can own it  
→ Parallelization changes everything (5 browsers, 5 tasks)

This is the promise of agentic AI.
Not hype.
Not sci-fi.
Not someday.

It’s the shift from "assist me" to "go do it."

And once you see it working in real time,
you stop thinking about AI as a tool.
You start seeing it as workforce.

What’s one tedious workflow you’d hand off first?

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Trying to build new systems can feel impossible.

But it’s usually just unfamiliar, not impossible.

The first time you wire AI into your workflow,
it feels like you’re breaking something.

The first time you automate a process,
you second‑guess every step.

The first time you hand a task to an agent,
you wonder if you can trust the output.

That discomfort isn’t a signal to stop.
It’s a signal that you’re in new territory.

And new territory is where leverage lives.

→ When you build custom AI agents
↳ You stop doing repetitive work entirely

→ When you document your workflows
↳ You gain clarity you didn’t know you were missing

→ When you automate 20% of your week
↳ You unlock a different version of yourself

Here’s the truth I wish someone told me earlier:
Systems don’t get easier because you get smarter.

They get easier because you get **reps**.

Every awkward first attempt
is buying you competence later.

Every small automation
is buying back future hours.

Every new AI workflow you install
is increasing your surface area for opportunity.

You’re not behind.
You’re just early in the learning curve.

And early is a powerful place to be.

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You don't need more intensity to build your exit. 

You need less chaos.

Not a bigger leap.
A calmer foundation.

One protected block a day is enough to start.
Forty-five minutes you refuse to negotiate with.

That block becomes your quiet lab.
Your place to build skills without pressure.
To test ideas without chaos.
To launch tiny projects that grow legs.

When you stack those days, things change.
Because progress compounds,
and so does clarity.

But here’s the part most people overlook:
Your system matters more than your willpower.

If the tools you use create noise,
you’ll avoid the work.
If they bury you in tabs and tasks,
your mind goes into overdrive.
If they scatter your attention,
your energy gets hijacked.

The right setup does the opposite.
It creates calm.
It creates rhythm.
It creates psychological space.

That’s the kind of system worth building.

→ Automations that remove mental load  
→ Workflows that reduce decision fatigue  
→ Simple structures that keep you focused  
→ Tools that feel like support, not stress  

Because the goal isn’t to quit your job tomorrow.
The goal is to build something steady enough
that your nervous system actually relaxes
as you move toward your exit.

Most people chase intensity.
The smart ones design environments
that make intensity unnecessary.

Start with forty-five minutes.
Start with one clean, supportive system.
Start with less chaos, not more effort.

You’re not just building an escape plan.
You’re building a life you can actually breathe in.

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We complain when superhuman intelligence takes 20 seconds.

Think about how insane that is.

Kevin and I were testing a new model the other day. 

What hit us wasn’t the speed, or even the quality.  
It was the contrast.

One tab was instant, nuanced, deeply contextual.  
The other was still “thinking,” twenty minutes later.  

And that tiny gap?  
That’s the future sneaking up on us. 

We say, “this is the worst it’s ever going to be.”  
But tech doesn’t just go up and to the right.  
It gets better, then worse, then better again.  

Progress is lumpy.  
But directionally, it’s undeniable.

What impressed me most:  
→ It retained a huge amount of context  
→ It retrieved answers instantly  
→ The writing felt natural and precise  
→ It mapped itself to the document like it was part of it  

This is why people are excited.  
Not hype.  
Access.  

The point of access is where everything changes.  
When friction drops to near zero,  
behavior shifts overnight.  

The same way broadband unlocked YouTube.  
The same way the iPhone unlocked the app economy.  
The same way agentic AI will unlock workflows we can’t imagine yet.  

We’re not just getting smarter models.  
We’re getting closer distance between intent and output.  

And once that gap collapses,  
every industry reorganizes.  

Enjoy the glimmers.  
They’re the early signs of a new baseline.  

PS - I had a great time recording this week's "AI at Work" with Kevin Williams. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Link is in the first comment. 

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Your AI systems aren't broken.  

They're just too noisy to think with you.  

Most teams want better AI output,  
but skip the foundations that make it possible.  

Here are 7 ways to design systems that  
actually think with you (not against you):

1. Reduce digital noise  
↳ Delete redundant data sources feeding your AI  
↳ Consolidate everything into one organized hub  
↳ Limit prompts to only essential information  

2. Clarify system logic  
↳ Create simple steps for recurring decisions  
↳ Convert those steps into reusable prompts  
↳ Add correct and incorrect examples intentionally  

3. Refine prompt structure  
↳ Compress long prompts into short templates  
↳ Save modular versions for common workflows  
↳ Reuse prompts instead of rewriting every time  

4. Automate repetitive workflows  
↳ Automate data collection into one pipeline  
↳ Trigger workflows at scheduled recurring times  
↳ Integrate AI with the tools you already use  

5. Assign focused roles  
↳ Build separate AIs for separate responsibilities  
↳ Narrow each system’s purpose intentionally  
↳ Remove multi-purpose tasks causing confusion  

6. Iterate system performance  
↳ Update workflows weekly based on outcomes  
↳ Store corrected outputs as training references  
↳ Add constraints whenever mistakes repeat  

7. Start with simplicity  
↳ Pick one daily task to systemize today  
↳ Build a basic workflow in ten minutes  
↳ Refine only after steady repeated usage  

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 Designing AI Systems That Think With You

The person I feared becoming  

was the system I had already built.  

For years, fear drove the algorithm.

I thought I was improving.  
But I was automating limitation.  

“Not smart enough.”  
“Not ready yet.”  
“Not enough.”  

Each belief ran silently  
like legacy code I never refactored.  

It worked, technically.  
But it produced the wrong outcomes.  

I called it “humility.”  
It was just poor configuration.  

Every system runs on assumptions.  
Every leader runs on stories.  

If your inner OS says  
“I’m not capable,”  
you’ll filter out every signal that proves you are.  

If your process says  
“Wait until perfect,”  
you’ll delay the experiment that shows you can.  

And if your architecture is built on fear,  
you’ll keep scaling self-doubt.  

Leadership isn’t about adding more.  
It’s about debugging what’s already running.  

The belief that “I’m not enough”  
is just an unpatched script.  

Delete it.  
Rebuild from trust.  

Because confidence isn’t a personality trait  
it’s clean code.  

Let’s refactor one belief today.  

Here’s mine:  
“I have to earn permission to lead.”  

Your turn?  

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Shanna Greathouse, MBA, PMP

pigybak

We're transforming neighborhoods into purchasing power networks starting with home services through social home improvement, a brand new category. Using AI-clustering and geofenced notifications, we're creating communities that inspire and are built on trust - digitally. And at the same time, we're tackling the 50,000 contractor gap holding back a $600B industry with the practical mantra "Earn more, drive less, get your weekends back." Check us out, start a Pigybak Ride in your neighborhood and start a movement.

Beta launched August 2024
Community-driven growth
Scaling with a mission to make hiring contractors faster, smarter, and more affordable

Let’s build something better - together.

Founder & CEO

Ohio Startup Network

Building unforgettable founder experiences that amplify Ohio’s startup ecosystem. From the Hustle Bus to immersive events, I create moments that spark connections, drive innovation, and put Ohio founders on the map. Let’s make the Northcoast the most collaborative, creative, and connected startup hub in the country.

Head of Founder Programs

Forest City Founders Club

A way for Cleveland founders to get together and inspire one another

Founder

TriVista

Analytics Operations Project Manager

Metafora (formerly CarrierDirect)

Crafted partnership program, Metafora+ partnership network, as a network of industry thought leaders who regularly share industry insights and novel approaches to solving for industry specific issues yielding 350% in year 1 and over 1M in revenue.

Lead the training and development of analysts in advancing analytics expertise through teaching business constructs and analytics principles as well as tech tools (SQL, excel, Tableau, Python) to apply to client needs.  

Program and product manage customer technology engagements including assessments, custom application development, and cloud migration and overall data strategy.

Director of Strategic Partnerships / Analytics Lead / Sr. Business Consultant

Lead team of talented people in tech solutions, process improvement, new market penetration, M&A, network operations design and analytics to serve client needs. Lead the design and execution of 2 client products which were then acquired by unicorns within 2 years.

Execute complex ROI models, financial forecasts, and market sizing evaluations as well as more complex data science modeling to identify inefficiencies and drive continuous improvement with a Six Sigma and LEAN foundation. Advise and lead business transformation and change management initiatives for businesses ranging from 5M in revenue up to 1B in revenue

Lead cross-functional international technical team in the revamp of client's integration platform yielding a 67% improvement in time to integrate. Within 2 weeks of delivering the final platform, the client was acquired and commanded a more premium multiple because of our work and is now leveraging the platform as a new market accelerator.

Senior Business Consultant

American Greetings

Internal strategy consultant focused on growth initiatives, market sizing, organizational restructuring and operational improvements across a company of over 12000 employees globally. 

*Cross-functional leader focused on organizational benchmarking as well as leading innovative projects including sustainable business solutions for product set up and disposal.  Projects range from $3.5M to $10M each.
*Prepared Board materials for key strategic quarterly meetings and constantly challenge status quo with initiatives on reinventing retail space, reformatting service models, leading sustainability imperatives, and recommending exit strategies for the private equity owners.
*Lead financial modeling and contract negotiations for key acquisition as well as exit strategy modeling for optimal MOI return using reverse buyback techniques.
*Created financial projection model using data sets and input across the business to create a master “ROI” for private equity owners, identifying gaps and potential growth trajectory effects on projections (risk mitigation) as well as guide projected SG&A benchmarks.
*Lead analysis of organizational benchmarking, from distribution center consolidations to organizational reporting structure consolidations and efficiencies, identifying over $50M in savings and efficiencies opportunities.
*Along with the VP of Delta Strategic Management Office, prepared C-suite PowerPoints for Board reviews and on behalf of CEO, CFO as well as key company communications including the strategic roadmap presentation and reorganization roadmap for all-hands meetings
*Analyzed and created action plans for key adjacent markets, opportunities, and risks through panel interviews, secondary research, statistical analysis, and creative problem solving including extensive research on digital trends on pace with customer-base changing preferences.

Business Strategy Manager Consultant

Philips

Promoted to position to manage team of 30 project engineers to support global manufacturing operations, bridging the previous gap between R&D and Supply Chain, resulting in key successes including saving 3 weeks of lost production time on premium product launch.  

*Trained and mentored junior staff in cross-functional process in heavily regulated arena (FDA).
*Created and managed dashboard of key milestone deliverables with focus on scope and risk management.
*Analyzed data to detect trends with resulting initiatives to improve organization behavior and results.
*Managed engineering change backlog to support cost reductions of more than $4M.
*Delivered end-to- end improvements for installed base sustaining activities.

R&D Project Lead

Promoted to position to lead global supply chain PM team (including Haifa and Suzhou) in reducing inventory while eliminating line down frequency, driving line downs from 5 - 10 per week to 1 - 2 per week, saving millions in lost production time.  

*Lead PM for international purchasing initiative resulting in greater than 25% inventory reduction year over year.
*Implemented Lean supplier program, aligning global roles and responsibilities across multiple functions and international sites through the use of tools including process mapping and waste reduction.  
*Managed cross functional efficiency initiative resulting in a consolidated Sharepoint workflow.
*Made strategic report outs to CEO focused on Lean initiatives driving logistics flow improvements.

Global Supply Chain Project Manager

Hired into role to analyze operational data and to build dashboard of Key Performance Indicators for senior management (director-level to General Manager level)

Used Lean tools and processes in order to create and manage supplier forecasts coupled with SAP reporting – resulting in changing a 3-day manual process into a 5-minute automated process.
Project managed inventory balancing initiatives to increase profitability and stakeholder confidence.
Managed vendor performance while negotiating better contracts based on critical feedback.

Supplier Forecast Analyst

Curtiss-Wright

Managed and expedited key manufacturing and logistics milestones of major international projects ($1- $3 M USD contracts) from testing and validation through freight coordination, reporting to Project Managers for communication to customers.

Manufacturing Project Control Specialist

Provided competitive quotations and sales support for varying sized representatives and direct customers, leading the sales team in large-scale contract wins (totaling over 150K each), including wins in two new Latin American territories.
Authored and rolled out nine cross-functional sales standards and the use of electronic records systems across the global divisions.  Co-hosted a training conference of over fifty sales representatives.  Provided sales expertise and support for the opening of branches in both the UK & Brazil

International Inside Sales, Customer Service MRO

Trained junior and senior staff in new technologies and techniques including human resource balancing tool for equitable distribution of workload, improving document turn around by up to 200%

Document Control Specialist

NASA Glenn Research Center

Selected from a dozen candidates from schools throughout Ohio for position

Assisted in program design and execution of several corporate wellness initiatives meant to engage staff and increase workforce productivity

Created fliers, email blasts, and marketing materials to promote a wellness-oriented work culture

Performed biometric screenings and designed personal fitness programs based on goals & needs of NASA employees

Corporate Wellness Intern

Founder & CEO @ pigybak

At Pigybak, we believe uplifting the community begins with transforming homes into dream homes - turning to-do lists into ta-da lists. With the power of neighborhood buying power, we are creating an ecosystem of services and homeowners, collaborating and inspiring each other while saving time, money, and valuable resources. Imagine Pigybak'ing on your neighbor's lawn care, painting, or even patio build - is there any better way to be a good neighbor than saving each other money? Well, that time is now.

With a background in M&A, data and org consulting, and product development across 4 industries, I'm taking my best practices and transforming what it means to be a home owner through the power of social home improvement. I'm so passionate about community uplifting, we donate 5% to nonprofits supporting community development and trades organization. Proud to say we are working toward our B-Corp certification now.

Founder of startup, pigybak, a mobile app designed to improve small business revenue while making hiring contractors and getting bids a snap - all in a sustainable way.

We have been moving at a rapid pace, moving from concept to MVP in just four months under the guidance of the National Science Foundation (I-Corps program) to establish exceptional market fit. With a team of four developers, a partnership with a technology firm, and further go to market partners in the works in combination with local government and major household brands, we are positioned to shift home improvement in favor of the little guys.
-Go to market strategy
-FP&A
-Partnerships
-Product management
-Fundraising & presentations
-Marketing
-Business development

Shanna Greathouse

I am so excited for our first Coffee Shop Takeover at Cafe Indigo! I hope you can stop by if you're building in Believeland! Shout out to my friend and former colleague, Melissa Garrett-Hirsch, who was the first person I got to see prep and dive into entrepreneurship from corporate. Excited to check out your new shop (she opened Unbar in 2020!)

Building Better Communities through Social Home Improvement | Forest City’s Hype Queen 👑

🚀 OHIO STARTUP WEEKLY SPOTLIGHT | NOV 10 – 15 🚀

This week, Ohio’s founders are fueling up, pitching hard, and keeping the lights bright for innovation. From Cleveland’s strategy sessions to Cincy’s gala nights, there’s no shortage of reasons to get out and connect.

Here’s what’s brewing statewide 👇

MONDAY · NOV 10
☕ Cleveland Heights — Founder Coffee Shop Takeover @ Café Indigo (7 AM) | Ohio Startup Network
 Start your week like a West Coast founder — but with Midwest coffee. Come cowork, collide, and caffeinate.

🎭 Cleveland — All-In Leadership Forum (4 PM) | Greater Cleveland Partnership
 Inspiration from the top — leaders, lessons, and maybe a few mic-drop moments.

TUESDAY · NOV 11

🏥 Cleveland — Healthcare & Benefits 2025–26 Trends & Predictions (8 AM) | Entrepreneurship Organization
 Because founders need healthy teams and healthy margins.

🎤 Cincinnati — MORTAR Pitch Night & Graduation “Life’s a P!+CH” (5 PM) | MORTAR
 Local founders take the stage — and maybe the funding.

💡 Toledo — Tech Night TolHouse (6 PM) | EmpoweredAI
 Innovation with a soundtrack — networking meets nightlife.

THURSDAY · NOV 13

🎯 Cleveland — Learning Day: Strategy (12 PM) | Entrepreneurship Organization
 Sharpen your focus before Q4 chaos hits.

💬 Cleveland — Pitch Playground (12 PM) | CWRU Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship Case Western Reserve University
 Low-stakes pitches, high-value feedback — practice makes fundable.

📚 Delaware / Lorain — Small Business Resource Fair (3 PM) | ECDI - Economic and Community Development Institute
 Grab grants, tools, and connections — Ohio’s small biz toolkit in one room.

🎨 Akron — Small Business Showcase (4 PM) | LaunchNET Kent State University
 Students + startups = energy you can feel.

🏆 Columbus — Meet the Business Coaches & Pitch5 Contest (4 PM) | Diane Wingerter
 Live pitches + coach matchmaking = instant growth mode.

🍸 Cincinnati — Business Hop (5:30 PM) | Spilt Social SparkHaus
 Hop city to city energy — founders, drinks, and connections that travel.

💻 Virtual — Keep More Cash: Founder Tax Strategies for 2025 (5:30 PM) | Rev1 Ventures
 Tricks for founders who’d rather fund runway than the IRS.

🚀 Cleveland — Your 90-Day Game Plan for Growth (6:30 PM) | @Women’s Business Center of N. Ohio

FRIDAY · NOV 14

🏥 Cleveland — Innovating in Healthcare and Radiology (1 PM) | Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship Sears think[box] at Case Western Reserve University
 Where med-tech meets moon-shot.

🎉 Cincinnati — Legacy of Lights Gala (6:30 PM) | African American Chamber of Commerce
 The perfect close to the week — celebration, recognition, and radiant community vibes.

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