Every era of the internet has had its winners. Websites decided who got found. Then search rankings. Then social. Now it's AI. When a customer asks ChatGPT for a recommendation, only a few names come up, and there's no page two.
I believe every small business deserves to be one of those names, not just the ones with enterprise budgets. That's why I'm building Rhetor. Our flagship offering, Lighthouse Local, is where businesses and agencies manage their place in the AI era. See where you stand, who's winning instead, what to fix first, and track it all in one place. Around it, we build the rest of the stack. Agents that handle every call, chat, and follow-up, and custom engineering for the AI that runs the operation underneath.
Before this, I was a founding engineer at Sound, worked on growth and product at Stellate, the GraphQL edge platform now part of The Guild, maintained tooling at The Graph, and supported Anyscale with growth. I contribute to open source, including projects under The Guild, GraphQL, and ShabadOS. More on my Github.
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