Private Equity Investor at hauerX holdings + Founder Courageous Minds Only + Co-Founder The Garage Group

Enterprise growth used to compound over years. Now it compounds over weeks.

The companies winning see what's coming months earlier, validate in weeks instead of quarters, and get to revenue before the window closes. Most enterprises are still operating on the old timeline. The gap is widening.

Jason Hauer built and sold an Inc. 500 innovation consultancy. Now he's building HauerX Holdings: a portfolio of AI-native companies that close the velocity gap.

The mission is simple: make AI-native growth the standard for every enterprise.

Not through advice. Through companies that operate at AI-native speed.

Speed to see what's coming. Speed to validate. Speed to revenue. Systems that compound.

The HauerX portfolio delivers what enterprises need to move faster:

Board of Innovation builds AI innovation engines across the commercial stack. They built Walmart an AI product engine that compresses 12 months to minutes.

Nichefire delivers predictive culture intelligence. Nestlé used their signals to launch Vital Pursuit first-to-market, predicting the GLP-1 trend before it hit mainstream.

FifthRow turns consulting workflows into autonomous AI agents that run 24/7. A Fortune 500 auto company validated 5 B2C businesses in 10 months.

3D Color produces color-perfect product comps in days instead of weeks.

Serial Growth Engine helps B2B companies build repeatable growth systems that scale.

Serial Growth Lab is where Jason shares the roadmap to AI-native growth. How enterprises move from slow to fast. From reactive to predictive. From campaigns to compounding systems.

Jason partners in two ways: backing growth-stage companies building AI-native solutions, and deploying portfolio capabilities inside enterprises ready to move from strategy to installed systems.

The vision: $100M portfolio. Built from Ohio. Serving enterprises globally.

Speed to signal. Speed to market. Speed compounds.

Jason Hauer

A 22-year-old with AI fluency will outpace the executive who hesitates.

The gap widens daily.

This isn't about technology. It's about who's willing to learn.

The executives struggling most are the ones defending what they already know. The ones accelerating are the ones asking "what if?"

Relevance isn't about your title. It's about your learning velocity.

AI-Native Growth | Portfolio Builder | Inc. 500 Founder

A King's Ransom

Advising, sometimes doing stuff, for curious minds.

Founder CEO

Kitchen Fund

The country's only fund specializing in high growth fast casual restaurant brands.

Advisor

ATLASON

A design studio thats obsession is its business. Solutions for sustainable products, packaging and manufacturing systems.

RAIN

A leader in Voice and Conversational AI.CEO Nithya Thadani named by Voicebot.ai as a Top 20 visionary in voice. Jeff Bezos made the list to.

Board Director

Fahrenheit 212

Chairman

Co-Founder, CEO

Saatchi & Saatchi

World-Wide Board Director

The Campaign Palace

Awarded CEO, New Zealand + NYC. Board member of $1B global communications firm. Advisor. Founder of A King's Ransom.

CEO, The Campaign Palace, NZ 1987-1999. Launched TCP in NZ, grew to a Top 5 NZ agency. Several times winner of Agency of the Year, CEO of the Year. Multiple national and international creative and ad effectiveness awards

World-Wide Board Director, Saatchi & Saatchi, NYC 2001-2006

Founder CEO, Fahrenheit-212, NYC 2001-2013. Grew to become one of the country’s leading innovation consultancy firms. Pioneered unique pay-for-performance model. Generated over $3.5B in new product revenue for clients that include adidas, Campbell’s Soup, Capital One, Citi, Charles Schwab, Coca-Cola, GE Capital, Hershey, LG, MARS, Nestle, Pfizer, P&G, Samsung, Starwood

Fahrenheit-212. Described as ‘The Innovator’s Paradise’ by Fortune, ‘White Hot Idea Factory’ by BusinessWeek, the ‘Epicenter of Innovation’ by Esquire, ‘Scorching the Consultancy Landscape’ by Fast Company

Fahrenheit-212 was acquired by Capgemini. 

Global CMO, PE backed E-Cigarette Company, NYC 2013-2015. Largest independently owned e-cig business in the US. Designed and launched the market leader C-Store e-liquid brand and award-winning line of premium e-liquid. Produced some of the most viewed content in the category’s history.

Founder CEO, A King’s Ransom, NYC January 2017- Present.

October 2020- October 2023, Founder of Mindalt, a mood-enhancing natural deodorant. In fact the only mood-enhancing deodorant. 

Prolific idea generator. Inspiring leader. Deeply respected advisor. Expert in top line growth across most consumer facing categories. An active New Zealander, has written extensively on a range of growth and innovation topics in Forbes, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Businessweek. He has spoken at venues including Yale's CEO Summit, the H.E.C, McKinsey European Leadership Forum and the London Business School's Global Leadership Summit.

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