Wordcraft.

Storycraft.

Context Architecture.

AI Systems & Strategy.

Media & Marketing.

Profile of a man with gray beard and dark hair, sitting in front of a bookshelf, illuminated by soft light in a dark room.

a bit about me.

I'm a writer and consultant.

I help B2B organizations define and govern the narratives behind complex products, business models, and partnerships across launches, positioning, and brand evolution. I also help design and build agentic infrastructures that govern how organizations are represented in their own voice and in the AI systems that now synthesize buyer understanding.

I publish A Short Distance Ahead, a Rising Technology Substack tracing the history of artificial intelligence one year at a time, from 1950 to the present, and I write for The Philadelphia Citizen.

areas of expertise

Editorial & Creative Direction

From long-form journalism and newsletter publishing to brand narrative and product launch creative, I develop the core idea and the connective language that lets it travel coherently across formats — essays, newsletters, podcasts, short films, and live events.

GTM Narrative Strategy

I have led Go-To-Market work for growth-stage companies and enterprise organizations navigating complex technological change, building the narrative architecture that holds value proposition, positioning, and campaign execution together as the company and the market both move.

AI Systems & Content Governance

Grounded in working knowledge of AI history, tools, and current application, I help build the governed information layers that determine what an organization says about itself, what others say about it, and how AI systems describe it when buyers research.



Context Architecture

My approach is grounded in over a decade of experience in marketing, media, and studying and writing fiction.

The intersection of these disciplines has taught me that most creative and strategic challenges are rooted not in problems of execution, but rather, problems of context.

The right narrative, told without the right foundation, framed without the right context, will fail to resonate.

I work with founders and executive teams to map the narrative landscape that is influencing market dynamics.

I look at how a technology or product was actually developed, where it came from, what it displaced, and why it matters now.

I chart the key narratives that are shaping how decisions get made across existing mental models, trusted voices, and emerging media frameworks.

I track the narrative-driven ‘chain of thought’ that runs through this landscape, helping teams unlock the hidden context behind their go-to-market strategy, creative campaigns, and brand presence.

What a company means about itself is rarely what gets repeated about it. That gap is where the strategic work lives, and it doesn't end on a slide. I build it as a living foundation: source material refreshed from sales calls, customer interviews, analyst reports, and help center documentation - structured into a governed layer that determines what the company says about itself, what others say about it, and how AI systems describe it when buyers research.

That grounding, what I call Context Architecture, is what separates narratives that resonate from messaging and content that simply fills space.

It's what makes a company’s messaging and narrative legible to the buyers, analysts, and synthesizers who are now forming their understanding well before anyone reaches a homepage.

my approach

a few notables

My Substack newsletter A Short Distance Ahead has been named to Substack’s Top 50 Rising in Technology and featured on ABC News Philadelphia.

My writing for The Philadelphia Citizen includes featured profiles and editorials reaching an audience of over 1.5 million.

At O3’s 1682 Conference — a full-day AI business innovation conference at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia — I served as featured speaker and historical curator, presenting five sessions tracing AI history for an audience of over 140 corporate and tech leaders from Google, Coca-Cola, Hershey’s, and J.P. Morgan.

I produced and managed the 2nd annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival, at the Comcast Technology Center — a 400 person public ideas conference featuring John Oliver, Ali Velshi, Michael Rubin, Josh Kopelman, NY Attorney General Letitia James and future Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.


foundations & fluencies

Creativity & AI Specialization - Parsons School of Design, 2023

Lead with AI - Microsoft and Masterclass Executive, enrolled 2026

Agent Skills with Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, 2026

MCP: Build Rich-Context AI Apps with Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, 2026

Generative AI for Everyone - DeepLearning.AI, 2022

AI for Everyone - DeepLearning.AI, 2022

Machine Learning Specialization, DeepLearning.AI & Stanford Online, 2022

AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations, Anthropic Academy, 2025

Business Foundations, Marketing - Wharton Online, UPenn, 2018

Front-End Web Development, General Assembly, Opening Cohort, 2012

Write of Passage, Online Writing Fellowship Finalist, Final Cohort, 2024

The New York State Writer’s Institute, Fiction, Summer 2024

Playwriting, Dramatics & Theatre Arts, HB Studios, 2001

Liberal Arts & Sciences, The New School, Creative Writing Concentration | Social & Historical Inquiry, 2002



My work lives at the intersection of narrative, technology, and go-to-market strategy, where I help organizations make complex ideas legible before sending them out into the world.

I’ve worked across agencies, media, and startups (CPG and B2B SaaS alike), including early days at glacéau vitaminwater and three ventures that ended in acquisition, and I’ve led marketing and GTM efforts in education, workforce development, and experiential learning. Along the way, I helped build a sustainable model for The Philadelphia Citizen, contributing to its acquisition of Philadelphia Magazine.

I write A Short Distance Ahead, a 75-essay Substack tracing AI from 1950 to now, not with the goal to predict the future, but to understand how we keep arriving at it sideways. I also contribute to the newly formed Citizen Media Group as it continues to define what local journalism can and should be.

I study AI with persistence (Parsons, DeepLearning.AI, Microsoft/Masterclass, Anthropic Academy), and in quieter hours, I write fiction—some of which has found its way into programs like the New York State Writers Institute, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and Futurescapes.

a bit more about me