Projects

🦷 Brushing Buddies

Brushing Buddies is a children's dental health company I founded under my parent company, Wilde Honey Brands LLC. It started the way a lot of businesses start — with a problem I couldn't solve.

My kids wouldn't brush their teeth. Every night was a battle. I tried timers, apps, character toothbrushes, bribery. Nothing worked consistently. So I made a musical board book that turns toothbrushing into a two-minute sing-along experience. The music plays when you open the book. Kids brush along with the song. Parents stop losing their minds.

That first product — a singing toothbrushing book for ages 2-5 — launched as a DTC product and has since expanded into B2B partnerships with dental offices and DSOs (dental service organizations). We're currently running pilot programs with local families to test new products in development.

What's next: I'm building out the product line beyond the original book, growing our dental office partnerships, and assembling a founding team including advisors and sales leads.

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🤖 AI Trailmates

AI Trailmates is a community project I created for people who are learning to use AI tools in their work and businesses. It's built on the idea that we're all figuring this out together — "trailmates" hiking the same new path.

The community shares prompts, workflows, experiments, and honest takes on what's working (and what's not). It's specifically for non-technical people who want to actually use these tools, not just read about them.

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🔬 Cornell Tech Runway

I work at Cornell Tech in NYC on the Runway program — a venture capital/incubator role focused on helping PhD founders spin technologies out of universities to start companies.

I train scientists and technologists to become entrepreneurs, teach them to translate complex technology into viable businesses, and help them raise funding. The focus is deep tech and AI — hard-science companies with long development timelines and big potential.