Adrian Scott, Ph.D.

Helping Companies Transform Their Trajectory

I specialize in helping companies transform their trajectory and achieve breakthrough results. I work closely with CEOs to drive significant sales growth and prepare companies for funding rounds. Some companies are early stage startups, but many been operating for several years and wish to enter a new period of growth and scaling. We bring in A.I. when and where relevant.

“When Adrian joined my Board last year, I was finding it hard to find a path forward for my company. We were spending a lot of effort and money on different product features and marketing campaigns with little success. After listening to what I felt I had to “do” to succeed, Adrian asked the simple question: what do I need to “learn” to succeed. This simple question was an epiphany for me. Adrian introduced me to proven frameworks that helped me determine what I needed to learn. He helped us put the tools and methods in place needed to collect metrics and turn them into actionable information. Thanks to Adrian, the fog has lifted, I’m now navigating towards success — and the metrics prove it.”

— Omid McDonald, CEO of Legitmix (now CEO of Dairy Distillery)

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 may include integrating agentic A.I. flows and other A.I. approaches, where relevant.

Contact

To contact me, email me at my firstname at firstname lastname dot com, or write to me via LinkedIn.

About

I help startups grow and engineer A.I.-enabled technology. I was a board member and executive advisor of Legitmix and helped them turn around sales from flat to 600% 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