Product Management
Discovering products that are valuable, feasible, and usable by bridging business, tech, and design.
United States
Hello.
I'm Jackson.
Product Manager & Maker — I help teams ideate, validate, and ship digital products that people actually use.
Who am I?
What I Do
I combine business strategy, user research, and hands-on building to turn ideas into products. From MVPs to scale, I focus on solving real problems for real users.
Turning Insight Into Growth
Eventually all the research, the data, and the customer feedback has to turn into something — a message, a strategy, a reason someone picks you over the other option.
MVPs & Validation
Running lean experiments and smoke tests to validate ideas before investing in full builds.
Simplifying Complexity
Tax prep, compliance workflows, B2B onboarding — my specialty is taking the stuff nobody wants to deal with and making it slightly less painful.
Rapid Prototyping
Shipping functional prototypes in days, not months, to test assumptions with real users.
Reading the Business
I have an accounting degree, which mostly means I ask annoying questions about what we're actually measuring before we build anything.
Side Projects
Tools and apps from my exploration into the world of AI tools like Cursor. Some related to my passions, some just for fun. Click through to try them.
City Budget Simulator
Turn-based game: balance the budget, delay consequences, and survive 30 years in local government office.
GameCivic
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Crossword Constructor
Build NYT- and WSJ-compliant crossword puzzles with live validation, word fill, and export.
GameUtility
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City Budget Explorer
Interactive Dallas city budget — revenue sources, operating departments, and vendor spending.
CivicData
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Meeting Recap
Plain-English summaries of Dallas council meetings — who attended, what was debated, and how members voted.
CivicData
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Council Accountability
Campaign finance, council voting records, and lobbyist registration for Dallas.
CivicData
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Tally
Keep track of game scores and friendly competitions with your group.
GameScoring
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Latest Content
Thoughts on topics I find interesting.
Career
Legibility and AI: Restructuring of Knowledge Work
A definitive list of modern, alternative smoke test techniques to help test early signs of desirability with your target market.
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👀Careers
The Legibility Trap
I've searched high and low for the hottest beta access invites in tech to show you the dos and don'ts with early access onboarding.
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Economic
America's Dirty Secret
Why litter feels worse even as the numbers improve and what economics tells us about why cities can't seem to get clean.
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Let's talk
Looking for an ear?
I'm not a consultant, but I enjoy speaking to like-minded (or not) people. Drop me a line and let's figure out what to discuss.
hello@example.com