Saadiq Rodgers-King
4 exits · Facebook, GoDaddy, Gerber Life, Yuga Labs
Smart leaders are stuck on AI. I get their teams unstuck.
Your team has the AI tools and isn't using them. I advise the executives making the calls and get hands-on with their teams until AI is how the work gets done.
exits_ Facebook · GoDaddy · Gerber Life · Yuga Labs
before_ Princeton CS · MIT Sloan MBA · 20+ years in product and engineering
What shipped
8–12 hrs
of manual calling per request, replaced by a voice agent in production
A B2B corporate-housing company
embedded technical leadership · thirteen months and running
0%
AI mention rate across seven models, diagnosed with the cause in a two-week sprint
A venture-backed database company
2-week discovery sprint · converted to a 6-month retainer
~3 hrs
per prototype iteration, down from weeks, after three weeks embedded
A consumer product team
3 weeks embedded · AI-native prototyping
7 engagements, anonymized until each client signs a release.
All 7 →Why it sticks
Tried an internal champion: This is my only job.
A champion with a day job drifts back to the old way, because it's easier and less risky.
Tried a one-off training: It happens in your real work.
Generic prompting tips don't connect to anyone's job. I work in your data, your sprints, and your pipeline.
Tried a strategy deck: It runs after I leave.
A roadmap with no one to build it stays a document. Your team builds the workflows with me, and they keep running.
How I work
Executive advisory, talks
A standing weekly session with the CEO or CPO on the AI decisions they can't delegate. Current clients include the chief executive of a Fortune 500 company. The usual starting point.
Discovery sprint
One to two weeks inside your company to find which problem is worth solving first. Ends with a scoped proposal for the first project.
Agent builds, embedded technical leadership
When building is the fastest way to prove the point, I ship it with your team, as a scoped project or as your weekly technical lead. Your team owns it after.
About
I've spent over twenty years in product and engineering, building companies and running the teams inside them. I still build with these tools every week, so the advice holds up when your team puts it to work.
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