Middleman
co-founder & founding engineer
I own product and engineering on a three-person team building an AI platform for private markets deal workflows.
- I contacted 1,000 prospects and conducted 30 investment banking and PE demos. I prioritized feedback in Linear, triaged urgent fixes, and used week-long Agile/SDLC sprints to ship 15+ features and gather follow-up feedback.
- I validated AI-generated deal documents with investment banking analysts. Their before-and-after estimates indicated about 35% less drafting time, and I incorporated their feedback into subsequent iterations.
- I selected Firebase/Firestore for rapid MVP validation and evaluated PostgreSQL/Supabase for complex relational workflows and scalability.
- I compared deal-management platforms and enterprise LLM/Salesforce pricing to develop an AI-native business case. I prioritized automated deal memos, financial modeling, and document analysis over traditional CRM functionality.
- I enabled the platform to generate 2,000+ deal documents grounded in authorized sources using per-deal retrieval, citations, and scoped access controls. I required human approval before irreversible agent actions.