Available — booking through Q3 2026

Sam Slater · AI-native builder for sales & CX teams

I ship the software your sales team can't get from IT.

Two ways to work together — embedded part-time with your sales, CX, or RevOps team, or a fixed-scope project when you know the exact thing you need shipped. Either way: production code, your stack, your ownership, working tool in week one.

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Currently booking 2 active engagements Based in the U.S. Building with Claude since 2024

01 — About

Most teams don't need another agency. They need someone who's been in the seat.

Day job: VP, Sales · Triad
Stack: Salesforce, Magento, Cloudflare, Stripe, Moodle, Claude API
Notable: Shipped 10+ production tools in 12 months, including a solo-built behavioral-health workforce platform.

I'm not a career engineer. I've spent my career running sales and CX teams — which means I've seen, up close, every place where a $40k SaaS subscription quietly fails its users.

Working with Claude, I started building the tools my team actually needed: a CX dashboard our previous BI vendor couldn't deliver, an activation-codes lookup that replaced a Slack ping queue, a chatbot rebuilt from a retired one because the first attempt didn't have backend access. Each one shipped to production. Each one is in use today.

The result is software that fits the way operators think — because it was built by one. If you're a sales, CX, or RevOps leader who keeps hitting the same "this should be possible" wall, that's where I'm useful.

Currently booking both engagement shapes — embedded retainers for teams that need an ongoing builder, and fixed-scope project work for teams with a specific tool to ship. Long-term goal: turn the tooling I ship into productized templates other operators can deploy.

02 — The engagement

Two ways to engage. Same builder. Same operator-fluent code.

/ What you get

An operator-fluent builder, on your team

One person who picks up the "this should be possible" asks, ships production tools against them, and writes the docs so your team can extend them. Not a vendor. Not a consultant. A builder embedded with your operating cadence.

AI-native internal dashboards & lookup tools
Salesforce, Magento, Stripe, LMS integrations
Custom chatbots with real backend data access
Marketing websites & landing pages (this site is one)
Sales collateral — decks, one-pagers, case studies
Whatever else is on the "we wish we had" list

/ How it works

Embedded retainer, or a fixed-scope project. You pick the shape.

Embedded — 1-2 days/week on your team for a quarter or more. Open build queue, iteration in your standups, transferable docs. Best for teams with an ongoing list of "this should be possible" asks.

Project — a single tool, quoted to a fixed scope and delivered against a defined milestone. Best when you already know the thing you need: a chatbot pilot, a Salesforce integration, a dashboard, a landing page. Working tool in week one, done by the end of the quoted window.

Week 1 — discovery + first working tool in production
Then either: ongoing queue (embedded) or fixed delivery (project)
Clean handoff with docs, no vendor lock-in either way

Embedded retainer

From $4,500 / month — 1-2 days/week on your team, ongoing build queue, transferable docs. Best for teams with a steady stream of "this should be possible" asks.

Fixed-scope project

From $10,000 — one defined deliverable, quoted per scope (chatbot pilot, Salesforce integration, dashboard, marketing site). Best when you know the thing you need shipped.

Two-week prototype

From $5,000 — a single, scoped tool shipped to production in two weeks. Best as a low-commitment way to test fit before a bigger engagement.

03 — Selected work

Things I've actually shipped — not pitch-deck slides.

Personal projects

2026 · Personal · Shipped solo

Accelerator HQ

A production-grade workforce-management platform for behavioral-health licensure candidates. Real software, not a Figma deck: live Postgres, real-time updates, AI woven throughout, and a funder-grade reporting layer that surfaces HPSA placement as the metric that actually matters.

The 23-month candidate journey — milestone gates, clinical-hours pacing as a payment trigger, leave handling, supervisor assignments — is operationally specific to the workforce-accelerator model. So is the funder side: an Impact page, ROI calculator, and one-pager that compute live from the cohort and answer the question every program funder is actually asking. Built it because the existing LMSes in this category handle ~30% of the actual job.

AI is the wedge, not a sticker. Four surfaces ship today: at-risk diagnosis + draft outreach for staff, a context-aware coach chat for candidates, an admin-side cohort-pulse synthesis that reads the peer feed for themes and check-ins, and personalized weekly reflection prompts. All running on Claude.

Built solo, end-to-end, in approximately 8 weeks of focused build time. [ Add cohort / funder metric here once available. ]

Next.js 16 Tailwind v4 Supabase Anthropic Claude Resend Vercel

2026 · Personal project

The Humor Index

A Letterboxd-style ranking system for TV comedy. Shows are scored on three measurable axes — jokes per minute, craft, and cultural impact. A Python pipeline turns scripts and episode data into consensus scores; a data-forward frontend surfaces the rankings and the reasoning behind each one. Weekly drops (Schitt's Creek, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Two and a Half Men) plus a recommender that finds your next favorite based on what actually makes you laugh.

thehumorindex.com →

Python pipeline Data-viz frontend Recommender

2026 · Personal · Shipped solo

lucaandellie.com

A custody-schedule coordination app I built to replace the shared Apple Note my ex-wife and I were using to track who has the kids when. The Note kept causing miscommunications, so I built a proper tool around one principle: nothing changes until both parents approve. Two parent accounts plus a "Commenter" role for grandparents, caregivers, and new partners who need visibility but not write access.

Per-kid, time-segmented daily schedules with explicit swap-request flow and a full audit trail. Travel tracking with automatic conflict detection (including alerts when both parents would be away at the same time). Recurring weekly activities with per-occurrence reschedules. Threaded messages, daily / night-before / weekly-digest reminders via email and SMS, ICS calendar feed, document storage, PWA, dark mode, 15-minute revert window.

View interactive demo →

Firebase Auth Firestore Cloud Functions Resend Twilio 10DLC Vanilla JS PWA

Triad

2026 · Internal tool

CX performance dashboard

Replaced a stalled BI engagement with a Cloudflare-deployed dashboard pulling from Salesforce, ecommerce, and survey data. Monthly refresh, attribution methodology codified in code, Access-gated for the team.

Replaced a multi-month, high-five-figure BI engagement with infrastructure costs under $50/month.

Cloudflare Pages Salesforce API Python refresh

2026 · Data product

Student-journey dashboard

Cross-platform student journey: ecommerce activation codes → LMS engagement data → practice-exam scores. AI-generated insights at the top; full hierarchy underneath (program → organization → student) for account-manager drill-down.

Replaced weekly cross-system spreadsheet pulls (Magento + Moodle + Salesforce) with a single live drill-down. Account managers now identify at-risk students in seconds, not hours — and the headline insights are surfaced before they have to look.

Magento + Moodle Salesforce Cloudflare

2026 · Integration

Stripe → Salesforce B2B pricebook + auto-link

Wired the Stripe-managed catalog into a Salesforce pricebook so B2B sales could invoice from CRM with the same SKUs ecommerce runs on. Plus a record-triggered Flow that auto-links new Stripe customers to the right account or Person Account on creation.

153 active Stripe SKUs synced into the Salesforce B2B pricebook; new Stripe customers now auto-link to the correct account on creation.

Salesforce Flow Greytrix sync 153 SKUs synced

2026 · Internal tool

Activation codes lookup

Customer success was Slack-pinging engineering every time a B2B customer asked whether their org had unused activation codes. Built a Magento-backed lookup tool that put the answer in the AM's hands in seconds.

Replaced a 1-2 day Slack-thread turnaround with a 30-second self-serve lookup; eliminated an entire ticket category for engineering.

Cloudflare Worker Magento REST API HTML / vanilla JS

04 — Words

From people I've actually worked with.

He shipped the dashboard our previous BI vendor couldn't deliver in six months — in three weeks, on infrastructure that costs us less per month than that vendor's invoice did per day.

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Sam doesn't need a translation layer between the business problem and the build. He's already worked the problem from the operator side. Saved us weeks of explaining what we actually wanted.

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Want to be the first named testimonial here? Email me a sentence — I'll trade you a free hour of build time.

05 — Writing

Notes from the build queue.

Essay · May 2026 · 9 min read

Why your BI vendor can't ship your dashboard

A debugging story about a six-month BI engagement that I replaced with a weekend of Cloudflare and the right schema. The actual lesson is about who should be writing the SQL.

Essay · May 2026 · 10 min read

The "this should be possible" framework

A field guide for operators who keep hitting the same wall: how to tell which "this should be possible" asks are tractable in a week, in a month, or never — and what to ship in each case.

Build log · May 2026 · 12 min read

Accelerator HQ — solo, in 8 weeks

A full build log of Accelerator HQ — what shipped in week one, what almost killed the project in week three, and the AI architecture decisions that made four production surfaces possible solo.

Got a "this should be possible" problem?

Tell me about it in two sentences. If it's a fit, you'll have a Loom or a working prototype back within a week.

Book a 15-min intro call → Email me