Choose your motives:

Selected work, staged as an editorial reel.

/// PROBLEM

You are still expectedto make the call.Even when growth feels uncertain.

Stop carryingexecution load.Install a system.
Stop reinventing the wheelevery Tuesday.Install a system.

Traffic is shifting. Acquisition costs are rising. AI is changing how people discover and evaluate your business. Every channel offers a different explanation.

I help you find the real constraint, decide what deserves to change, and build the capability to move forward.

/// WHEN THE SIGNALS CONFLICT

What is actually happening?

You are watching traffic decline while paid acquisition becomes more expensive. Content is producing less response. AI is changing how people find, compare, and choose.

Each channel offers its own explanation. The real question is whether one channel is failing or the operating model behind all of them no longer fits the market.

The first job is finding out which is true.

/// FROM UNCERTAINTY TO ACTION

Find the problem. Decide what changes. Build the capability.

01 / DIAGNOSE

Diagnose the Constraint

Find the cause behind the visible symptoms.

02 / CLARIFY

Clarify the Decision

Decide what to stop, protect, change, or scale.

03 / BUILD

Build the Capability

Give your team a system it can keep using.

You are carrying execution load that should already be a system. We replace repetitive founder effort with production-grade assets that keep shipping.

Your operators are busy but value creation is uneven. We install repeatable execution infrastructure across portfolio teams.

/// DIAGNOSTIC: THE BOTTLENECK

Identify your ceiling.

Permanent leverage happens when you solve the right bottleneck.

Does any of this sound like you?

/// THE COST

Your brain is at capacity. Still, nothing ships.

Operational drag is a founder tax. Every hour spent coordinating is an hour lost on building or selling.

  • Recover your focus.Stop the 25% drain of manual execution.
  • Protect your advantage.Turn proprietary knowledge into a permanent asset.
  • Stop the leak.Convert coordination hours into shipping hours.

/// OPERATING RECORD

Experience at scale. Applied to the problem in front of you.

[x] REFINERY29

Refinery29

Grew organic search from under 1 million to more than 18 million monthly visits.

[x] TMZ

TMZ

Led search and audience growth inside a business reaching approximately 35 million peak monthly visits.

[x] RAPTIVE

Raptive

Applied enterprise growth lessons to focused, founder-led problems across more than 5,000 independent publishers.

/// IDEAS MADE TANGIBLE

See how I turn complex ideas into things you can use, test, and explore.

Explore the tools, experiments, and strange little systems I build when curiosity gets involved.

Proof in the work.

[x] LEAD CASE / REFINERY29

19xorganic growth

Built the editorial search engine from1Mto19Mmonthly sessions.

[x] TMZ

+30%YoY

Scaled search traffic from19Mto30Mmonthly sessions.

[x] RAPTIVE

200Mreach

Launched AI-powered SEO systems across a200Mmonthly-session network.

[x] OPERATOR SIGNAL

"Hank blends strategic vision with technical execution."

— Steve Levitt, Former CRO, The Search Agency

/// THE EXIT

Where should we start?

First, we make the numbers clear and understand what they mean. Then we make the decision the evidence supports and build the capability your users need to keep coming back.

Stop being the engine.Clear your backlog.

One fixed price. One functional system. Total source code ownership.

Project-based pricingNo bloated retainersYou own the code
The Great Disconnect project image

01 / PROJECT

TheGreatDisconnect

January 2026

State of Search 2026

Google AI Solar System project image

02 / PROJECT

GoogleAISolarSystem

Jan 2026

A retro-futuristic data visualization of the Google AI ecosystem

Research Buddy project image

03 / PROJECT

ResearchBuddy

January 2026

Local-first CLI for automated deep-dive research

Real Estate Showcase project image

04 / PROJECT

RealEstateShowcase

December 2025

Revenue engine for industrial assets

ICP Builder Pro project image

05 / PROJECT

ICPBuilderPro

November 2025

Project Gallery project image

06 / PROJECT

ProjectGallery

January 2026

A self-referential portfolio system

AI Alignment Sphere project image

07 / PROJECT

AIAlignmentSphere

January 2026

Are you aligned with your ChatGPT?

The Algorithmic Gazette project image

08 / PROJECT

TheAlgorithmicGazette

February 2026

LinkedIn SEO Intelligence Platform

The SEO Council project image

09 / PROJECT

TheSEOCouncil

February 2026

Browser-Native SEO Content Auditing

The SuperFair project image

10 / PROJECT

TheSuperFair

February 2026

Digital Companion for The SuperFair Austin 2026

Information Gain project image

11 / PROJECT

InformationGain

February 2026

Quantifiable Originality