Tools, and what I actually built with each
Nothing is listed here that I have not used to ship something. Where a line names a build, the build is real and most have a page on this site.
CRM and marketing automation
- Salesforce: the contact-role attribution model tying campaigns to influenced revenue; lead routing and speed-to-lead standards.
- Pardot: the nurture layer under the demand engine and the lifecycle portfolio.
- Marketo: marketing automation in earlier program work.
- Knak and Stripo: email build tooling, evaluated and onboarded as vendors.
CDP and data
- BlueConic: 18M+ profile segmentation, on-site dialogues, progressive profiling, lifecycle routing.
- BigQuery: the data layer under audience and funnel reporting.
- Bombora: intent data in enterprise partner programs.
- Zephr: on-site experience and gating logic.
Paid media
- LinkedIn Ads, Google Ads, Meta Ads: the acquisition layer of the demand engine.
- GAM: owned inventory delivery and pacing for partner programs.
Analytics
- Looker: the Performance Console and funnel reporting.
- GA4: site behavior feeding segmentation and conversion reporting.
- Google Optimize: landing page testing.
Content and creative
- HTML and CSS: self-taught to ship templates, landing pages, and tracking scripts when there was no one else to ship them, including this site.
- WordPress: site builds and landing pages.
- Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Canva: creative production for campaigns.
- Jebbit: quiz-format capture experiences.
- Brandfolder: asset management.
Automation and AI
- n8n: 52 workflows across three systems (the job search machine, Stedd, and Life OS), 36 active in production. The status rail at the top of this page counts them live.
- Claude Code: the build tool behind Stedd, the job search machine, the event pacing app, and this site.
- Anthropic API: transcript QA, prompt patching, and parsing inside the Stedd stack.
- ChatGPT Enterprise: custom GPTs trained on the operating playbook standards.
- Retell and Twilio: the voice agent with live calendar booking; a self-hosted ConversationRelay prototype sits in the stedd-voice repo.
- MCP servers: tool integrations across the automation stacks.
Infrastructure and operations
- Cloudflare Workers: the wardrobe API and the Stedd uptime monitor.
- Postgres: the Stedd production database, with nightly logical backups.
- Notion: pipeline databases for the job search, Life OS, the wardrobe system, and the achievement inventory this site is fact-checked against.
- Smartsheet and Monday.com: stood up the Smartsheet marketing instance; leading the Monday.com migration.
- Bizzabo: the API under the event pacing dashboard.
- Gong, DocSend, MediaRadar, Jira: the supporting cast: call review, content tracking, competitive intel, and work management.