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Coaching for engineers and founders building with AI.

Four years as CTO of a VC-backed AI startup. Bought agencies across several functions and watched every one run the same play. Now building an AI agent platform for go-to-market teams, mostly agent-written. I work 1:1 with people doing the same kind of hard thing.

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Status: Open — limited slots
Format: 1:1, remote, recorded
Tracks: Four
First step: Free 20 min

01What I coach on

Four tracks. Most people need two of them.

These are the problems people actually bring me. Pick the closest one — we sort out the real scope on the intro call.

Shipping with AI coding agents

Go from pasting prompts into a chat window to running a repo where agents do real, reviewable work.

Founder & 0→1

For technical people turning a working prototype into a company with customers, pricing, and a reason to exist.

AI go-to-market & sales automation

Build an outbound and marketing motion run by software instead of a retainer — without becoming the spam everyone hates.

Career & engineering leadership

IC to lead, lead to exec, or a deliberate pivot into AI work — with a plan instead of a job-board habit.

02How it works

From first call to shipped, in four steps.

01
Free 20-minute intro
We check fit. I'll tell you if I'm not the right person — that happens, and it costs you nothing to find out.
02
Intake before session one
A short written brief: where you are, what you're stuck on, what a good outcome looks like. We don't spend a paid session on context.
03
Working sessions
Screen shared, hands on the keyboard, real artifacts. Not a lecture — we work on your actual problem.
04
Written recap, every time
Decisions, next steps, owner, and deadline. You leave with something you can act on when the call energy wears off.

03Pricing

Four ways to work together.

Flat rates, no retainer traps, cancel any month. Every package starts with the same free intro call.

Package	Most commonSingle session	Most commonOngoing coaching	Most commonBuild intensive	Most commonTeam workshop
Price	$300one 90-minute call	$900per month	$3,500four weeks	From $5,000custom
What it is	One specific problem, taken apart and solved on the call.	Regular sessions plus async access — the default for real progress.	Hands-on. We build the thing together instead of talking about it.	Bring your engineering or GTM team up on AI-native workflows together.
Includes	90-minute working session over video Pre-call intake so we start at minute zero Written recap with the decisions and next steps Recording, yours to keep One week of async follow-up questions	Two 60-minute sessions per month Async messaging between sessions, replies within one business day Code, docs, and deck review as needed A running plan we revisit every session Cancel any month, no notice period	Weekly 90-minute working sessions (4 total) Daily async access over the four weeks Direct work in your repo: setup, review, pairing A finished artifact — shipped pipeline, configured repo, or launched motion A written handoff so it survives without me	Half-day or full-day workshop, remote or on-site Curriculum built around your stack and repos, not a generic deck Hands-on labs in your actual codebase Written playbook the team keeps Follow-up session 30 days later
Best for	A decision you're stuck on, or a trial run before committing.	An ongoing goal: shipping a product, a promo, a GTM motion.	A concrete build with a deadline attached.	Teams of 3–20 adopting agentic tooling on purpose rather than by accident.
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04Who I am

Daniel Pao

I was CTO of a VC-backed AI startup for about four years — integration-heavy work, a small team, and every technical decision landing on my desk.

In that seat I bought agencies across recruiting, marketing, and a few other functions. Same failure every time: a retainer, an account manager, a junior doing the work, a monthly deck, and nobody accountable for the outcome.

So I left to build the replacement — an AI agent platform for go-to-market teams — where most of the code is written by agents inside a review pipeline I designed. Coaching is where I hand that hard-won detail to people solving the same problems.

More about me

Short version

~4 years as CTO of a VC-backed AI startup
Bought and managed agencies across multiple functions
Now building an agent platform, mostly agent-written
Hired, promoted, and leveled engineers
Coaching engineers and founders 1:1

Next step

Start with a free 20-minute intro call

No pitch. We work out whether I can actually help, and I'll say so if I can't.

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