One Common Ground data room per project: the narrative on the public side, the backup work behind a password. Rooms marked Pending are held in the Common Ground CRM and have no room yet. Just a slice of the work; the full list is far longer.
Development
- 301 W OsbornLed an office-to-condominium conversion in Midtown Phoenix from acquisition through entitlement and in-house design, locking the permit classification before the unit count.Active
- Ghana Community Master PlanPrincipal on the Common Ground team that proposed the master plan and schematic design for a thousand-acre new community in Ghana's Volta Region, building system and crew training in scope.Completed
- Greensburg, KansasPreconstruction and General Contracting Lead, Tellus, June 2007 to December 2008: coordinated Greensburg's green redesign and sold the camera to national manufacturers, one exclusive category at a time.Completed
- Habitat for HumanityConstruction Partner, Habitat for Humanity, through Tellus, February 2007 to November 2016: material, bid work, labor and consulting for chapters in three Southern California counties.Completed
- Hyatt Studios, GeorgetownFeasibility study and construction review, Hyatt Studios, Georgetown, Texas, February to May 2026: the no in February, the Texas budget normalized, the estimate the developer is raising against.Completed
- Kinetic ML: a work study for a small marketing companyA work study: the lead-enrichment engine Common Ground built for a client, a small marketing company, live at kineticml.com.Completed
- LA Clippers Practice FacilityLA Clippers Practice Facility, General Contracting and Design, Tellus (June 2017 to October 2018): designed and built a phased redesign sequenced so the team never stopped using the building.Completed
- LACMALACMA, Volunteer Owner's Representative, May 2016 to May 2018: coordination authority across campus art installations, and general contractor on the Magic Carpet/Home interactive sculpture, installed through Tellus Build, June 2017.Completed
- Ritz-Carlton, Laguna BeachTwo narrow credits, both through Tellus: a patio for the Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Beach, and advisory on Ritz-Carlton branded residences.Completed
- Santa Monica HouseChief Executive Officer, Tellus, Santa Monica custom home, 2020: sorted the open scope into licensed and skill-bound work when the crews stopped coming, and did the second myself.Completed
- Shelby: Gardena hub and Las Vegas plantRan Tellus as general contractor for Carroll Shelby International's California hub, four phases over four years from a mural to a structural lounge build-out, and won one of the few exemptions when the City of Carson froCompleted
- Soft-Story RetrofitsLaunched a soft-story retrofit and PACE financing line at Tellus against Los Angeles's mandatory ordinance, originating the financing and bundling the engineer.Completed
- The Triangle, Grand AvenueDevelopment lead for a Phoenix broker group on a Grand Avenue creative district: feasibility, zoning analysis, parcel research, a consortium and a five-gate path with capital last, in one month.Active
Operating
- A PE-backed medical group: operating audit (2026)Fractional COO, PE-backed multi-office medical group; 90-day operations and efficiency audit.Active
- A property management launch (Phoenix, 2023 to present)Advisor to a boutique short-term rental management company in Phoenix, 2023 to present. Fee format was not the open lane; set a flat share of gross with no add-ons or contractor markups and built its controls.Active
- A surrogacy consulting startupA surrogacy consulting startup, Advisor: go-to-market strategy and an AI cost map for making surrogacy and IVF paperwork repeatable, without crossing into the practice of law.Completed
- AXT Axe HausBuilt and ran AXT Axe Haus, the first axe-throwing venue in Southern California: proved it live, won the city's first permit for the category and reached a handshake sale the week COVID arrived; COVID killed the close, aActive
- Cannabis consulting: audits, control centers and acquisitionsA licensed cannabis operator: store-by-store research and a master control center, built and handed over (2023 to present).Active
- Greensleeves SteakhouseCo-owner and operator, Greensleeves Steakhouse, Redlands, 2016 to 2022: took over a shuttered 1892 landmark for effectively nothing, extended the lease first, phased the renovation around live service and rebuilt the busCompleted
- H.E.E.A.L. Santa BarbaraPresident, H.E.E.A.L. Santa Barbara, September 2010 to January 2015: led fundraising, governance and school and provider partnerships for a grief and loss nonprofit, and built its outreach around what it cost a referrerCompleted
- Mike Fields BBQ: a consulting groupAdvisor to Mike Fields BBQ through Common Ground, 2026: one name by directive, and pricing rebuilt from the true cost of a cooked pound, retail and institutional.Active
- Modular housing fabrication center: operating model (Arizona, 2026)Initial business-model and front-end operating analysis, through Common Ground, for a company spinning off into Arizona-built modular workforce housing: a stage-gated pipeline and a paid feasibility gate.Completed
- Sublime MedicalFractional COO for a California cosmetic dermatology group, 2015; traced a collections problem to unmaintained billing software and stale codes; installed a weekly code check the client kept.Completed
- Village San JuanVillage San Juan, Tellus Management, property operations, 2015 to 2022: kept an HOA contract on a board vote and rebuilt the operation behind it.Completed
Capital
- A medical device enters the US: diligence before the buyer (2026)Engagement lead, with Prince Capital, February to June 2026: diligence, a data room, a buyer-sequenced capital approach and a go-to-market plan for a medical-device company's US entry; five landmines found before any capital moved.Completed
- A ranch-land sponsor diligence (Mountain West, 2025 to 2026)Capital structuring and sponsor diligence for a ranch-land sponsor in the Mountain West (2025 to 2026): checked the raise at its source, found an unconfirmable fund reference and a lapsed lender letter of intent, refused payment in the sponsor's own paper, rebuilt the financing request.Completed
- Aycre CapitalFund raise as Managing Director: sources and uses before the deck, a five-stage pipeline with the tightest follow-up nearest the signature (2022 to 2023).Completed
- BridgePoint AirAdvisory board, BridgePoint Air Advisors, mid 2024 to the end of 2025: growth, risk and the sale negotiation, run in-house with the founder, through the closing to a private aviation company in November 2025.Completed
- Jason Scott: he was not asking for enough moneyGo-to-market and capital-raise advisor, Jason Scott (luxury menswear), with Prince Capital, October 2025 to July 2026: rebuilt the business plan from the door up, showed the founder was under-asking, and opened the Discovery Land channel and a private aviation account.Completed
- Save the World AirSave the World Air, Inc., Consultant with an equity position (about 2011): tested a pipeline-flow technology claim from inside a small public company and helped it raise capital.Completed
Brand
- A five-star barbershop and barber school (Southwest, 2026)A five-star barbershop, Common Ground, February 2026 to present: website, phone architecture and booking into Square, then a feasibility case for the owner's barber school.Active
- Alice MushroomsSeed Advisor, Go-to-Market, Alice Mushrooms, 2022 to 2026: advised the founders on retail entry, brand and the fundraising story as the brand moved from direct to consumer into national grocery and mass retail.Completed
- Contractor GorillaContractor Gorilla, Advisor with an equity position (2014 to 2017): authored the search strategy that put Tellus Design and Build on page one of Google for 'design build Los Angeles' through a web of cross-linked entityCompleted
- Drive for the DreamCreator, Drive for the Dream, a golf docuseries venture, February 2023 to November 2025: signed the cast and the producers before any platform ask, then moved the money to sponsorship on agreements the venture controls.Completed
- FluidmapperFractional CMO, Montreal deep-tech measurement company: built the brand and site, ran go-to-market, repositioned around physical AI, built the sales team.Active
- Ink GamesInk Games, Seed Advisor, Go-to-Market (May 2019 to September 2020): led go-to-market strategy and worked the seed-stage capital raise with our capital partner, through Prince Capital; the company went on to raise its SerCompleted
- Lip Loi Creative: the seat and the workFractional CRO, go-to-market strategy, Lip Loi Creative, 2022 to 2026: took a creative studio from a funding pitch that was not ready to a roster of brand engagements I sourced and directed and the studio built; I stillActive
- Xtrata Consulting SeatFractional CRO and construction consultant to Xtrata (formerly Strata), 2025 to present: bid system of record, pricing doctrine derived and validated, parity pitch, architect channel.Active
Estimating
- A 204-unit multifamily: value engineering (Nevada, 2026)Value engineering for a Nevada multifamily, January 2026. Priced a structural panel system against the stick-framed baseline at full project scope, with its basis and variance stated.Completed
- Canyon CorporateTakeoff, pricing structure and bid revision for the interior partition package on Building 1 of a Phoenix office-to-residential conversion, January to September 2026: priced the rate, not the building, and priced the second building the day its plans arrived.Completed
- Kanopi: an accuracy claim that survives being checkedBuilt and calibrated Kanopi, LÏEF's AI-assisted estimating engine, and published only its held-out accuracy after a self-run audit exposed the in-sample number as circular.Active
Health
- Peak Performance: peptides, health apps and genetic testing, built in conjunction with Rooted in MVMNTAn exploration into peptides, peak performance, health apps and genetic testing, built in conjunction with Dr. Matt Zanis, PT, DPT and Rooted in MVMNT (2026, ongoing).Active
Systems
- Common Ground Systems: the workflows we built for ourselvesCommon Ground Systems: the RFP outreach workflow, the voice engine, the credibility and story pipeline, Kinwork, a CRM migration, the data room pattern, the sales agents and the operating system, all built for our own ventures first. The digital-twin line itself now lives in the Continuum room.Active
Ventures
- Continuum Digital TwinA Common Ground case study: what it takes to build an advanced digital twin, run first on the firm's own people and its own record. The checklist and the workflow are inside, alongside the origin story, the June 2026 personal digital presence concept that started it, with Jesse as user zero.Active
- LÏEF Data: a data-center exploration (Phoenix area)An exploration for LÏEF Development into data centers in the Phoenix area, from the construction-management side: the general contractor umbrella, the electrical bench, commissioning work.Active
- NuWay Global / SimCairPatrick Noel Daly's hygienic sleep surface company, SimCair and DreamCair. Seven-plus years of Irish medical-channel revenue and two clinical evidence studies. In contract with Common Ground on a commission agreement for US business, September 2026.Active
Other
- BridgeBrain.ai: pre-capital advisoryCompleted
- Buy-side diligence: the method and the desk tools (deals by codename and stage)Active
- HighTide room is laptop-only; never built or touched from the miniActive