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I build the whole thing.

Strategy. Product. Experience. Design. Engineering.

Not because those disciplines are interchangeable. Because the decisions between them are where a lot of the most important work happens.

Yoni Havana

I started coding before I was eight years old.

Computers were one of the first places I discovered that an idea in my head could become something real. More than 20 years later, that is still what I love about technology.

20+
years of professional work
1
startup founded, capital raised
1
boutique practice, founded and run
200K+
audience in one ecosystem
One continuous line of work
Favorize → a company  ·  Solflower → many clients  ·  UAF → one whole ecosystem  ·  WholeThread → the practice built from all of it
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Favorize

San Francisco startup · founded and led

Raised outside capital, managed a small team, and learned the full reality of building a company from nothing.

Software is only one part of the problem. Product, business model, experience, people, market and execution all affect one another.

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Solflower Marketing

boutique digital practice

Startups, established companies, media businesses and larger corporate clients across strategy, product, design, development, CRM and digital systems.

Shrugged Collective became deeply embedded. The Swig Company taught me to work directly with experienced stakeholders inside a large organization.

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Universal Awareness Fellowship

one project kept revealing the next

A form problem became an intake system. Participant tracking became a lifecycle engine. Staff responsibilities became consoles. Communications became a custom sending system. The portal became iOS and Android apps.

One project kept revealing the next. I personally designed and built all of it.

WholeThread.
the practice this became

A practice for organizations whose needs are important enough, distinctive enough, or complicated enough to deserve a system built around them.

Why one person?

The handoff is often where things get lost.

Six handoffs
01A client explains it to one person
02That person interprets it for another
03Strategy becomes requirements
04Requirements become designs
05Designs become tickets
06Tickets become code
One conversation
The strategic conversationI am in the room for it
The experienceI design it
The product decisionsI make them
The systemI build it

When something changes halfway through the project, I do not need three meetings to explain to myself why.

Why AI matters

Better leverage, not less judgment.

What it changes
Move across disciplines faster
Write and review more code
Test more thoroughly
Document more effectively
What it does not touch
Knowing what to build
Knowing what not to build
Understanding the organization
Seeing how one decision affects another
Catching what does not make sense
Caring whether it actually works

AI is not the value proposition. Judgment is.

I stay with the problem.

Reliability is the part nobody can put in a proposal.

Responsive

you are not waiting to hear back

Things working

not things shipped

Details you may never see

the ones that surface later

What I do not tolerate
unresolved threads  ·  forgotten requests  ·  vague ownership  ·  tasks disappearing between people

If I tell you I am going to do something, I take responsibility for getting it done.

“The best part really is the intangibles. They are constantly exceeding my expectations... I actually told Yoni I didn’t want to write this because someone may read it and may end up taking his time away from my business.”
CEO, Barbell Shrugged / Shrugged Collective
If the project gets bigger

The difference is that I remain responsible for the whole system.

In practice it comes up rarely. AI leverage means I now cover ground that used to require a second pair of hands — but when a project genuinely needs another discipline, I bring the right people in.

One person who knows why it exists
the reason the system was built at all
One person who knows how the pieces relate
what breaks if one of them changes
One person who knows what was promised
to you, and by when
Brought in as needed
Additional engineering capacitySpecialized security expertiseMotionInfrastructure

Tell me about the thing that does not quite fit.

If your organization has a complex experience, workflow, or system that generic software keeps failing to capture, I would like to hear about it.

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