Adrian Scott, Ph.D.

Helping Early Stage Companies Transform Their Trajectory

I specialize in helping early stage companies transform their trajectory and achieve breakthrough results. I work closely with CEOs to drive significant sales growth and prepare companies for funding rounds.

Sample Success Story: I helped Legitmix transform from flat sales to 600% sales growth while completely eliminating advertising expenses. I also personally helped them close their first Silicon Valley institutional funding.

I work with only a very small number of companies at a time, and only with companies that are able to make decisions and execute quickly. My approach typically involves working with CEOs directly. Often this includes adjustments that transform sales processes and set the company up for successful rounds of funding. These days this often includes integrate agentic A.I. flows to close deals and support these strategic goals.

About

I engineer A.I.-enabled technology and help startups grow. I was a board member and executive advisor of Legitmix and helped them turn around sales from flat to major growth. I have a history of helping companies architect, build and ship software and Internet services. I am particularly interested in metrics-driven feedback loops, especially around behavior design, habit creation, and LLM evals.

I founded and built Coderbuddy, which started out as a PAAS (platform as a service) enabling web-based development, testing and deployment of software applications to the cloud. I now have a small team that works directly on helping a small, select number of startups and major technology companies build out technology and grow their metrics.

I founded Ryze, a leading business networking service which pioneered the social networking boom starting in 2001, heavily influencing Friendster, which in turn influenced Facebook.

In the past, I built Internet technology for companies including Charles Schwab & Co., Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard, Symantec and several startups. I later co-founded a startup called Flycode, which was formerly known as AppleSoup. I recruited most of the team and helped raise the nearly $4 million in funding.

I was a founding investor in Napster, angel investor in Giganet and BuyDirect.com (both successfully sold to publicly-traded companies), and advisor to Starmine, which was sold to Thomson Reuters. Prior to that I was a Cadet Colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Air Force Auxiliary, at age 17, and earned a Math Ph.D. in nonlinear optimization from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at age 20.

Best wishes,
Adrian