Blaize Wallace

I lead products from 0-to-1, then build teams and companies around them.

Deloitte

DELOITTE CONSULTING Consultant
2007 - 2011

Don't go chasing waterfalls

I built software for governments and Fortune 500 companies

Takeaway Iterating and testing in the real world with real users is really valuable.

Administrative Office of the Courts

—Led the database design team for CA's court system

Technicolor

—Designed a DRM system and upgraded internal processes

Verizon Redbox Instant

—Designed a streaming video DRM system

Bluelight

MIT Sloan & Bluelight Global MBA; Cofounder
2011 - 2013

Impact

150+ savings accounts created

$100K in winnings from MIT and Harvard competitions

6 Distribution partner banks and retailers

Saving the world from predatory lending

I cofounded a startup that helped people in cash economies save digitally

Takeaway You can just do things. Jump in the deep end and learn to swim.

Paper prototypes

—POCs with our earliest users and partners

Distribution partners

—Recruited banks, microfinance institutions, and retailers

Shipped Bluelight v1.0

—Digital bank accounts for low income families

Rentlytics

Rentlytics Head of Product 2013-2016
Chief Operating Officer 2016-2019

Impact

$4M ARR First $8M earned

8,000+ properties onboarded, 5% of TAM

Acquired at 9x revenue industry average was 3x; by Realpage (NASDAQ: RP)

Leading a product and building a company

I built a flagship product, multiple teams, and a company

Takeaways

Prototyping with actual users is incredibly valuable.
It's your product's responsibility, even if it's not your product's fault.

Pivot to Core BI

—Retired BI v1 (in my first month)

—Prototyped with users in Excel; sold resulting spreadsheets

—Pivoted our data ingestion engine and visualization system

—Launched Core BI

Rentlytics dashboards on desktop and tablet

Shipped 50+ dashboards

—Grew a product team from 0

—Led team to launch dozens of dashboards

Self-service surface

—Dashboard Builder

—Data Cleanser

—Financial Mapping

OCP Tech

OCP Tech Cofounder
2020 - 2023

Impact

22% APY Overperformed benchmark by 37%

6.5 Sharpe Ratio

$12M committed to hedge fund

From a YouTube video to a hedge fund

I started a market-neutral crypto prop trading fund that (almost) converted into a hedge fund

Takeaway I can learn any topic and come up to speed quickly.
I thrive on the bleeding edge, learning by building and exploring.

Trading tools

—Trade discovery and modeling

—Position tracking

—Automated hedging

Backtesting tools

—Data warehouse

—Backtesting

Trust Machines

Trust Machines General Manager &
Head of Product
2023 - 2025

Impact

23% of the ecosystem's lending market captured

Zero exploits

Signals

—Our primary competitor copied our architecture

—Features we pioneered have been adopted by the largest incumbents

Changing the world through Bitcoin finance

I built a decentralized finance lending protocol and an engineering team

Takeaway I learned to lead a team through obstacles and setbacks.

Pivot to Granite Finance

—Retired the initial Lending App

—User and market research

—Prototyped the entire protocol in Google Sheets

—Launched Granite Finance

Reimagining liquidations

—"Soft liquidations" to protect borrowers

—"Basis-based liquidations" for low liquidity ecosystems

A dozen feature launches

—Grew team from 0

—Managed engineering team

—All code from scratch, not forked (very difficult in DeFi)

AI Building

AI Building Having fun
2025 - 2026

Exploring AI, experimenting, and building to learn

I am currently consulting and building to discover the edges of AI

Fractional HoP / Advisor

—Rapid AI prototyping

—Team AI training

—Autonomous agent team tools

AI-exploration projects

Agent coordination Collaboration Coaching Infrastructure

AI Building

AI Building Having fun
2025 - 2026

Coaching and self-improvement

Exploring how AI can help us grow and actualize

Personas

Get coached by any public figure; agentic coaching persona creation and AI-based coaching

Accountability Alarm

Habit and goal coaching; alarms that only your coach can turn off

I Fondly Remember

Relational savoring; Relationship insights from an AI relationship coach

AI Building

AI Building Having fun
2025 - 2026

Autonomous agent coordination

Teaching agents to work together (and find the truth)

Marketing & content

Agentic marketing content creation

Agentic instagram discovery and outreach

Lead gen & BDR

Agentic lead gen, outreach, and response drafting

Team of Rivals

Agentic deep research and antagonistic peer review and debate

Job Dashboard

Agentic company, job, and network discovery, ranking, and management

AI Building

AI Building Having fun
2025 - 2026

Collaboration and infra

Human<>AI collaboration beyond the chat interface

Site Redliner

Human<>AI collaboration tool for website annotation and development

Generative Finance

Internal scaffolding for JIT generated personal finance apps

Memory Server

Memory system for Claude Code and Hermes that proactively surfaces relevant context

Today

Blaize Wallace blaizewallace.com

Why I'm a Fit

01 Builder + Explorer

I build for fun I love to explore the edges of what's possible: playing, discovering, experimenting

02 High agency

I've built multiple products, teams, and companies from 0-to-1 If I don't know it, I learn it

03 Creative

I love solving hard problems If we can't solve it, I find a way