“Honestly the mock interviews alone were worth it. He runs them like the real Forward Deployed loop — a live scenario, not trivia — and debriefs every answer. I walked into the real thing already knowing the format.”

“I came in able to talk strategy but not deliver. He built a 1-on-1 plan that had me scoping a real use case, writing the PRD, and running a POC gate. First delivery-side offer came eight weeks later.”

“Not magic, and he'll tell you that on call one. But he gave me a clear order of operations when I was drowning in advice. The roadmap was the thing — I finally knew what to do next each week.”

“He reviewed my portfolio project line by line over screen share. Half the things I thought were impressive, he cut. The two he kept, he helped me turn into a story that landed three interview loops in a month.”

“What I didn't expect was the accountability. Between calls he'd message to check I'd actually sent the applications. It's coaching, but it felt like having someone in my corner who refused to let me stall.”

“I booked one session to 'see if it was worth it' and ended up doing six. He mapped a personal roadmap around my QA background — eval design, test harnesses for LLMs — instead of pretending I had to start over as an engineer.”

“I'd read every article on breaking into Applied AI and still felt stuck. Two 1-on-1 sessions in, he'd torn apart my positioning and rebuilt it around the deployment work I was already doing. I stopped sounding like a PM who read about AI and started sounding like someone who ships it.”

“Direct, no fluff, and he clearly does this work himself — the feedback on my system design wasn't generic interview advice, it was 'here's how this actually breaks in production.' That distinction got me through the technical screen.”

“The weekly 1-on-1s kept me honest. He gave me a homework list every call and actually checked it the next week — no hiding. My requirements docs went from 'here's what the business wants' to full architecture briefs I could defend to engineering.”

“He got that SRE maps straight onto AI reliability and helped me pitch it that way. Reframed my whole resume in one session. Recruiters started calling me the reliability layer for AI instead of 'just DevOps.'”

“Every session ended with three concrete actions and a date. That structure is what got me unstuck after a year of 'researching.' Went from no callbacks to two Applied AI PM offers.”

“Blunt in the best way. He told me my first mock interview answer was a mess and then spent forty minutes showing me exactly how a Forward Deployed hiring manager hears it. Painful call, best money I spent all year.”