A public record of 226 outcomes from the Common Ground wins ledger, grouped by company and year, with a section for each principal. Each line is a claim the record supports, with its date and a public source where one exists. Figures here are the ledger's own; where a number has variants, the better-sourced one is printed.
Common Ground · LÏEF Development, Kanopi and Xtrata · Tellus Design + Build · Three Trails ventures · Advisory seats · Early years and lineage · Alex Prince · Jimmy Khounlavong · Robby Prochnow · Nick Scavio
Common Ground
| Year | Claim | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 25 to Aug 2026 | Took a PE-backed multi-office dental group from Alex's introduction to a signable 90-day operating-audit contract and client portal in 18 days PE-backed multi-office dental group (engagement) | Ledger |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Shipped gated data rooms in days, including a live acquisition vetting engine that scored five real for-sale practices against a buy-box PE-backed multi-office dental group (acquisition vetting engine) | Ledger |
| 2026 | Pegged practitioner effectiveness to retention, and the client's first data finding was overpaying for sites, hosting and tool links PE-backed multi-office dental group (practitioner scoring and cost audit) | Ledger |
| Feb to Sep 2026 | Built and operate the website, phone architecture and pricing surfaces for a 5.0-star barbershop with 585-plus reviews Local barbershop client (site and operations) | Ledger |
| 2026 | We are customizable, most of what we make is OEM, and we are built to support other businesses Common Ground | Ledger |
| 2025 to 2026 | A finance and document automation stack for a multi-company portfolio that runs read-only inside the client's tenant Finance and document automation stack | Ledger |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Three finance past projects: job-cost variance automation, multi-entity close with anomaly alerts, and a per-seat software spend audit Finance project library (GL cleanup, multi-entity close, license audit) | Ledger |
| Feb 2026 to present | Repositioned a 40-year academic measurement science as the missing data layer for industrial AI, and two contracts followed Montreal deep-tech measurement company (GTM) | Ledger |
| Feb 2026 to present | Not a conference follow-up or a flyer per buyer segment: brand creation, the fractional CMO seat and go-to-market strategy for a science-based company that did not know how to take its science to market simply Montreal deep-tech measurement company (engagement scope, corrected framing) | Ledger |
| 2025 to 2026 | Buy-side diligence that repriced a deal: state tax exposure larger than the price and ~97% customer concentration on a 48-year family business Buy-side diligence story (anonymized) | Ledger |
| Apr 2026 to present | Named consulting engagement: fixed a fragmented barbecue brand onto one name, then built its pricing method, website and financial model for expansion into Phoenix and Los Angeles Mike Field's BBQ (advisory) | Ledger |
| Feb 2026 to present | Structured a commission agreement with NuWay Global: a 50/50 split on anything Common Ground brings to the US for the SimCair hygienic sleep surface NuWay Global (Patrick Noel Daly) - SimCair hygienic sleep surface, US market entry | Ledger |
| 2025 to 2026 | Structured a $1.8M acquisition-financing request at 48% loan-to-value against a $3.74M appraisal for a 40-homesite land community Off-grid equestrian land community (capital structuring) | Ledger |
| Apr 2026 | Diligence on a 344-acre land deal exposed a fabricated fund and a lapsed lender LOI before any capital moved Off-grid equestrian land community (sponsor diligence) | Ledger |
| May 1 to Sep 2026 | Stood up a self-hosted agentic operations stack for a five-principal firm, with a nine-agent roster on top Common Ground agentic operations stack | Ledger |
| 2024 to 2026 | Built and deployed AI sales and operations systems across 10+ businesses, with reporting leadership actually runs on Common Ground (AI systems across the portfolio) | Ledger |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Built a full construction-management and owner's-rep proposal for a 61-unit public-agency housing RFP in two days Santa Cruz housing CM RFP (public agency) | Ledger |
| 2026 | Built a measured voice twin from 3.4 million of his own words, then proved it with a blind test Common Ground (internal capability) | Ledger |
| 2026 | Built and shipped an independent, non-commercial grading site for peptides, the reference layer a category full of sellers did not have Ground Truth Peptides (groundtruthpeptides.com) | Ledger |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Derived a self-checking SABS pricing model across 14 live bids: labor at 0.727 times material with an R-squared of 0.999 Bid-economics doctrine | Ledger |
| Apr 25 to May 13, 2026 | Migrated the firm's CRM twice in three weeks, landing 3,951 people, 2,934 companies and 3,469 associations in Attio in one day CRM migrations | Ledger |
| Jun 10 to Aug 12, 2026 | Built seven private data rooms in parallel in one day, then grew the fleet to 22 deployed rooms on one auth standard Data-room fleet | Ledger |
| Jun 24 to 25, 2026 | Earned 50-plus AI, LLM and automation credentials in an intensive certification sprint AI certification sprint | Ledger |
| 2026 | Runs self-trained AI sales agents through the CRM rather than field-service software Self-trained AI sales agents | Ledger |
| 2026 | Shipped or rebuilt eleven public surfaces, all HTTP-verified Public sites shipped | Ledger |
| 2026 | Agents read every email, text and outreach touch and keep the CRM current, so adoption stopped depending on a salesperson Agentic CRM tracking agents | Ledger |
| 2001 to 2026 | 25 years in development, construction and design from every seat: specifying, implementing, selling, building and scheduling Career-wide (every seat at the table) | Ledger |
| 2001 to 2026 | About 20 years specifying and budgeting the major interiors brands, and 25 years as a paying Autodesk customer Career-wide (specifier-side relationships) | Ledger |
| Oct 2019 / relaunch 2024 to present | A five-principal operating-partner practice ('We Build') with experience at Nike and GoDaddy, an attorney, and a registered capital principal Common Ground Ventures (the partnership) | Ledger |
| 2001 to now | Several thousand construction conversations and meetings across twenty-plus years, with the basis stated Career total | Ledger |
| 2001 to now | Negotiated on the order of $1.2B in development and construction contracts across his career Development and construction contracts | Ledger |
LÏEF Development, Kanopi and Xtrata
| Year | Claim | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | LÏEF Builders now facilitates owner's rep, architecture, preconstruction and general contracting nationally LÏEF Builders (service scope) | Ledger |
| 2026 | LÏEF Dev Creative Studio has delivered revenue-generating work; seven decks delivered LÏEF Dev Creative Studio | Ledger |
| Apr 26, 2026 | Set the estimating engine's positioning: 'Every other tool gives every contractor the same answer. Kanopi gives you your answer.' Kanopi (positioning) | Ledger |
| Apr 24 to 27, 2026 | Priced a premium 6,919 SF spec home from plans in 3 minutes 31 seconds, then ran three autonomous bids at 2 to 4 minutes each Kanopi (first autonomous estimates) | Ledger |
| Jun 8 to Sep 15, 2026 | Launched Kanopi as one brand with a flagship site, a public proof page and a gated data room Kanopi (brand, sites and data room) | Ledger |
| Jun 10, 2026 | Hardened the engine after a self-run adversarial audit and published an honest leave-one-out error of 18.6% Kanopi (honest accuracy audit) | Ledger |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Calibrated 36 formulas against a 41-bid corpus and found two silent pricing bugs before they cost anyone Kanopi (calibration patch) | Ledger |
| Jul 6 to 9, 2026 | Ran three same-day blind takeoffs for a manufacturer's VP of Operations, who asked: 'Can we buy this from you?' Kanopi (manufacturer trial) | Ledger |
| Jul 2026 | An 11-bid blind backcast from takeoff quantities with zero misses, and a 121-unit hotel's square footage within 1% Kanopi (blind backcast proof page) | Ledger |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Punch-listed an issued ADU bid and found eight unpriced items worth 10% to 13% of the total Kanopi (issued-bid punch list) | Ledger |
| May 2026 | Shipped a quick-service restaurant bid with a markup-stack bug, caught it and corrected it in v2 Kanopi (markup-stack bug, honest failure) | Ledger |
| Jun to Sep 2026 | Internal cost under $350 per takeoff on a 24-to-48-hour turnaround Kanopi (unit economics) | Ledger |
| 2026 | Cut architectural production time 65% against a 50% target on a six-week agentic build Agentic architecture production | Ledger |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Agentic drafting cuts the architectural work by about 40 percent Agentic drafting share | Ledger |
| Jul to Aug 2026 | Takeoffs that took about 40 hours now take about 40 minutes Estimating labor cut | Ledger |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Overhauled the engine to measure plans from the drawing's own vector geometry, with an overlay that must be inspected before any number is trusted Kanopi (vector takeoff overhaul) | Ledger |
| Sep 10, 2026 | The overhauled engine's first proof caught a five-times overcount on a 36,153 SF youth campus: 1,834 LF of partitions, not 9,470 Kanopi (institutional campus vector proof) | Ledger |
| Jun 5, 2026 | Reproduced a manufacturer's material quote to the penny from Kanopi's own takeoff on a small medical tenant improvement Kanopi (manufacturer quote reproduced to the penny) | Ledger |
| 2026 | Now in place with 8 builders and developers, and nationally has bid over $600 million in proposals this year Kanopi (national bid volume) | Ledger |
| 2026 | Declined to license the engine for now and delivers it as a service; the human overlay takes about a hundredth of the time Kanopi (licensing decision and human overlay) | Ledger |
| 2024 to 2026 | Self-performed about 70% of a flagship hotel-branded luxury residential project through in-house crews Hotel-branded luxury residences (in-house crews) | Ledger |
| 2024 to 2026 | Built and grades an in-house labor force of 200+ tradespeople across 14 trades, 'in essence a training company' LÏEF in-house labor system | Ledger |
| 2025 to 2026 | Locked a 22-residence Japandi program with 12-foot ceilings and a 51-stall garage Midtown Phoenix tower (program) | Ledger |
| Feb 11 to May 1, 2026 | Sold the building's rooftop telecom lease after rejecting a full-roof easement, turning a small rent stream into working capital for the redevelopment Midtown Phoenix tower (rooftop lease sale) | Ledger |
| Dec 2025 to Jun 2026 | Qualified a 22-residence adaptive reuse for Phoenix's 1-to-5-day self-certification permit path and built the 83-page filled packet with scripts Midtown Phoenix tower (self-certification path) | Ledger |
| Jun 11 to 13, 2026 | Built a private condo marketing site with 22 per-unit pages, a 42-row selections schedule and an 86-card lookbook in three days Midtown Phoenix tower (condo marketing site) | Ledger |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Shipped a 182-file, nine-section handoff packet to the architect of record and turned it into a reusable 10-item template Midtown Phoenix tower (architect handoff packet) | Ledger |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Delivered an 89-page owner code study with 18 critical findings and 958 clickable citations to the architect of record Midtown Phoenix tower (owner code study) | Ledger |
| Apr to Jun 2026 | Principal on the Common Ground team that proposed the master plan and schematic design for a 1,000-acre new community in Ghana's Volta Region, with the building system and local crew training inside the design scope Ghana master-planned community (design proposal) | Ledger |
| Mar to Jun 2026 | Brought in by a group of Phoenix real estate brokers as development lead for feasibility, planning, go-to-market and development expertise on a 14.9-acre Grand Avenue creative district The Triangle, Grand Avenue, Phoenix (client of record Natasha Lawrence, LOVE PHX Real Estate Co.) | Ledger |
| Apr 15 to Jun 10, 2026 | Built the live bid system of record for a prefab wall-system channel, tracking 32 bids worked daily by multiple reps Strata bid tracker (system of record) | Ledger |
| Feb to Jul 2026 | Priced a full run of residential SABS bids that set a $165 to $196 per SF benchmark for finished ADUs Residential SABS bid run (ADU benchmark) | Ledger |
| Apr 23 to Jun 10, 2026 | Reset a $785K full-GC restaurant bid into a shell-labor scope the owner could buy Quick-service restaurant (scope reset) | Ledger |
| Jun 10, 2026 | Sent a SABS shell bid for a 10,500 SF industrial repair facility at $47.96 per SF, which became the rate canon Industrial repair facility (shell bid) | Ledger |
| Jul 2, 2026 | Locked a $45,026 CD-submittal construction contract for a detached garage and gym at $36.46 per SF Garage and gym (locked CD submittal) | Ledger |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Sent a $345,888 lump-sum SABS shell bid on a six-unit townhome build, with margin of error stated on the labor side only Six-plex townhome shell (lump-sum bid) | Ledger |
| Aug 11, 2026 | The manufacturer now budgets SABS labor by a metric LÏEF set, and its own calculator validated LÏEF's rate within 4% Manufacturer labor calculator validation | Ledger |
| May to Sep 15, 2026 | Won verbal approval on a $2.04M interior-partition package for a ~$10M Phoenix office campus, now in plan check Canyon-scale office campus, Building 1 (interior partitions) | Ledger |
| Sep 15, 2026 | Bid a 94-unit garage conversion in one day off a 74-sheet not-for-bid set, with a blind pass that caught 574 LF of angled walls per level Office campus, Building 2 (garage conversion bid) | Ledger |
| Mar 27 to Sep 9, 2026 | Verbally named best bidder on a 36,153 SF youth campus after a SABS-in-lieu-of-PEMB bid, with the client switching to SABS Youth campus (SABS bid) | Ledger |
| Sep 9 to 12, 2026 | Delivered a full-project owner estimate on a plan set that arrived at 6:59 that morning, and the architect said the job is probably ours Industrial repair facility (full-project estimate) | Ledger |
| Oct 2025 budget; built | A 6,919 SF premium custom spec home with six baths and three kitchens, built at its budgeted numbers: $2.64M all-in, $382 per SF Premium Scottsdale spec home (executed anchor) | Ledger |
| 2025 | Cleared 22 condominiums by right with no rezoning or variance Midtown Phoenix tower (zoning) | Ledger |
| 2024 to present | Leads sales and market development for a patented prefab wall system, with a pipeline from $75K ADUs to a $9.6M hotel Patented prefab wall system (sales and market development) | Ledger |
| 2024 to present | What the Xtrata engagement produced: $48 million of actual projects bid, relationships with 30 developers and general contractors across the country, and a $220 million pipeline Xtrata SABS channel (aggregate output) | Ledger |
| 2023 to present | The LÏEF principals bring $500M+ across 400+ projects, 300+ tradesmen and 14% average time savings to every build LÏEF principals' collective record | Ledger |
| 2023 to present | Started an adaptive-reuse developer that keeps the full discipline stack in house: 'We draw it. We build it. We own it.' LÏEF Development (founding) | Ledger |
| 2020 to present | Deliberately widened the gap between development projects, and has cut the number of projects taken on over the past 5 years to a select few Development project cadence (selectivity) | Ledger |
Tellus Design + Build
| Year | Claim | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 (wiki) | Development advisory on luxury branded residences for Ritz-Carlton Ritz-Carlton branded-residence advisory (legacy) | Ledger |
| 2004 to 2023 | The clearest explanation of why owner's representation pays, in one analogy Tellus Design + Build | Ledger |
| 2004 to 2023 | Getting onto Cision was the first and most effective search tactic, and 'in-house design-build' was a brand-new phrase in Los Angeles Tellus / search, press and brand tactics | Ledger |
| 2004 to 2022 | Built and ran a four-entity, 60-person design-build firm: 400+ projects and $400M+ of built work, up to 52 at once Tellus Design + Build (lifetime record) | architectmagazine.com |
| 2004 to 2022 | Project count and run length settled: use 400+ projects, and treat the 500 as inside his own margin Tellus Design + Build (500+ projects claim) | Ledger |
| 2004 to 2022 | Owner's representative on $40M+ of third-party work; disciplined scheduling avoided $4M+ in delay costs Tellus (owner's representative) | Ledger |
| 2015 to 2022 | Moved a 22-year community contract from his father's company into Tellus and rebuilt the operation Tellus Management (took the contract over from Fowler Construction) | Ledger |
| 2004 to 2022 | Kept 10+ year client relationships through two downturns; one client calls Jesse 'the best general contractor I have ever worked with' Tellus / client testimonials and long relationships | houzz.com |
| 2004 to 2022 | Personally led 500+ owner-architect-contractor meetings as the voice for ownership Tellus / OAC leadership | Ledger |
| 2004 to 2022 | Delivered luxury residential and commercial work across California, Nevada, Oregon and Kansas Tellus / four-state footprint | Ledger |
| 2020 | Built a 7,000 square foot custom house in Santa Monica largely by himself through COVID Tellus Design + Build | Ledger |
| May 2016 to May 2018 | Two years as pro-bono owner's representative for campus-wide art installations at LACMA Tellus / LACMA volunteer owner's rep | Ledger |
| 2009 to 2018 | Tellus work covered by HGTV, Discovery, the LA Times and Architectural Digest Tellus / press and television | Ledger |
| Jun 2017 to Oct 2018 | General construction and design on the LA Clippers practice-facility redesign, a 16-month phased program run while the team kept operating Tellus / LA Clippers practice facility (general construction and design) | Ledger |
| ~2012 to 2017 | Built Carroll Shelby International's California hub over four years: signature mural, retail store, then the 3,000 SF 'Snake Pit' VIP lounge Tellus / Carroll Shelby International, Gardena | prweb.com |
| Jun 2017 | Built an interactive sculpture for LACMA that CODAworx selected for its Interactive Art issue Tellus / LACMA sculpture | prweb.com |
| Apr to Oct 2017 | Launched an end-to-end soft-story retrofit line for LA's mandatory ordinance and became a Ygrene-certified PACE contractor Tellus / soft-story retrofits and PACE | Ledger |
| 2016 to 2017 | Rolled out a living-wall design line and opened two offices rent-free to local artists, with a VR and drone client showcase Tellus / living art and artist program | Ledger |
| ~2012 to 2017 | Opened the walls before plan approval, found a barrel ceiling nobody could see, and made the structure the feature Tellus / Snake Pit VIP Lounge, Gardena (design and site decisions) | Ledger |
| 2016 | Won one of the few construction exemptions when Carson froze all new construction Tellus / City of Carson | Ledger |
| Aug 2016 | Hired by Keller Williams to build its Los Angeles office Tellus / Keller Williams Los Angeles | prweb.com |
| Nov 2016 | The design-build firm featured in Architectural Digest's 'Living Well in Los Angeles' issue Tellus / Architectural Digest | prweb.com |
| 2015 to 2016 | Best of Houzz for Service two years running, with a BBB A+ rating Tellus / Houzz, BBB and ratings | Ledger |
| 2016 | Series-development advisor to HGTV on sustainable community building Tellus / HGTV series advisory | Ledger |
| Feb 2013 to Apr 2016 | Selected into a private Vistage CEO peer-advisory group during the Tellus scaling years Tellus / Vistage CEO group | Ledger |
| Oct 2014 to Mar 2015 | Delivered a performance-car maker's Las Vegas relocation trade-direct with no GC, saving upwards of $300,000 and opening on schedule Tellus / Shelby American, Las Vegas | Ledger |
| Sep 2010 to Jan 2015 | President of a 501(c)(3) that helped people through grief and loss with exercise and the arts H.E.E.A.L. Santa Barbara (501c3 president) | Ledger |
| May 2014 | A Restoration Hardware design contact publicly recommends Tellus Tellus / client recommendation (Restoration Hardware contact) | Ledger |
| about 2014 | Moved the firm from contractor to design-build to control the workflow, not to sell design Tellus Design + Build | Ledger |
| about 2014 | Built an in-house estimating algorithm a decade before AI could do it, and stopped waiting on trade bids Tellus Design + Build | Ledger |
| 2014 to now | Speed of a thoughtful estimate is a credibility weapon, and he priced that trade-off with his eyes open Tellus Design + Build | Ledger |
| ~2012 | Brought plan expediting, architecture and interior design in house so the firm could forecast approvals and win design-build work Tellus Design (plan expediting) | Ledger |
| Nov 2011 | A client's green home in Irvine finished on the exact day promised and within budget Tellus / client recommendation (Irvine green home) | Ledger |
| 2008 to 2010 | Carried a Southern California construction firm through the 2008 residential collapse and kept scaling Tellus Design + Build (2008 recession) | Ledger |
| 2008 to 2010 | On camera in Discovery and Planet Green's Greensburg series and Build It Bigger Tellus / Discovery and Planet Green | Ledger |
| 2004 to 2010 | Learned fast that clients were not buying green, they were buying health, and sold it that way Tellus Design + Build | Ledger |
| 2005 to 2010 | Owned a category before it had competition, at six cents a click Tellus Design + Build | Ledger |
| Jun 2007 to about 2009 | Greensburg was not finished: common spaces were, the homes were harder, and the lesson was that a high-performance standard is only as strong as the payment structure behind it Tellus / Greensburg, Kansas (what finished, what did not) | Ledger |
| 2004 | Started Orange County's first green design-build firm and made green its whole identity about 18 months before the market caught up Tellus Design + Build (founding) | Ledger |
| 2004 | Gave four months' notice to start a green construction company after hearing two words in a design course Tellus Design + Build | Ledger |
| not given | Built the Ritz-Carlton Beach Patio overnight inside a working hotel, staging in a cordoned valet lot Tellus / Ritz-Carlton Laguna Beach (Beach Patio) | Ledger |
| not given | Took over a stalled six-room steakhouse build at the convention center on time and materials, with no guarantee on prior work Tellus / downtown steakhouse takeover (name UNCONFIRMED) | Ledger |
| not given | Beat a contractor's site-protection change order on the contract and the code, and protected a usable skate park before it opened Tellus / LACMA-type sculpture and skate park (site-protection change order) | Ledger |
Three Trails ventures
| Year | Claim | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 to present (confirmed current 2026-09-25) | Opened the first axe-throwing venue in Southern California, in a warehouse he converted himself, and sold it inside a year AXT / Axe Haus (exit) | yelp.com |
| Feb 2023 to present | Created a story-led golf docuseries venture and signed Sugar23, Front Office Sports and Winterstone as partners Drive for the Dream (golf docuseries venture) | Ledger |
| 2016 to Jan 2022 | Rebuilt a dark historic restaurant from scratch (PR campaign, press, city events, several chefs, a general manager who carried it) into a ~$2.1M, 4.8-star operation and exited January 2022 Greensleeves Steakhouse (turnaround and exit) | Ledger |
| 2018 to 2020 | Built Southern California's first axe-throwing venue in a distressed warehouse and won a first-of-its-kind use permit from Costa Mesa AXT / Axe Haus (venue and CUP) | Ledger |
| Oct 2018 to Jan 2019 | $89K of sales in the first four months from a standing start AXT / Axe Haus (first months) | Ledger |
| Sep 14, 2019 | Started Three Trails, the consulting company that became Common Ground Ventures Three Trails LLC (founding) | Ledger |
| Nov 2016 | Took over the lease and contents of a shuttered 1892 Redlands landmark restaurant, 50/50 with a partner, after an attempted arson, and reopened it with its former staff Greensleeves Steakhouse (acquisition) | Ledger |
| not given | Turned a pitch the PGA Tour had heard many times into working proof (vans bought, golfers signed, footage shot), then negotiated with the Tour for months Drive for the Dream (golf docuseries venture) | Ledger |
| within two years of launch to now | Every four units supports one full-time manager, and that ratio is what made the salaried roles real; the model now runs in two more Phoenix property companies Boutique property management platform (Phoenix short-term rentals) | Ledger |
| Three Trails era | Brought the brand and product work into the fund he was raising Aycre Capital Fund | Ledger |
Advisory seats
| Year | Claim | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 to 2026 | Fractional CRO to a brand studio: ran go-to-market strategy and set the direction and narrative of its work Lip Loi Creative (fractional CRO) | Ledger |
| mid 2024 to end 2025 | Served on the advisory board of a private-aviation advisory firm from inception through a successful exit BridgePoint Air Advisors (advisory board) | Ledger |
| 2022 to 2025 | Brought into a brand studio as its fractional CRO, and became the source of most of its marquee engagements Lip Loi Creative (role and provenance) | Ledger |
| 2023 to present | Operating and revenue seat inside a regulated private-markets advisory, on the non-regulated side, with no equity and zero transaction fees Prince Capital (operating seat) | Ledger |
| May 2019 to Sep 2020 advisor; investor to date | Guided the seed capital strategy for a mobile-gaming company that went on to raise a $9.5M Series A and an $18.75M Series B Ink Games (Seed Advisor, Go-to-Market) | Ledger |
| about 2020 to now | Called the build too expensive and the equipment about to get much cheaper, and both happened Plunge Studio (ice bath economics) | Ledger |
| 2014 to 2017 | Capital partner and advisor to Contractor Gorilla, the Los Angeles agency built for contractors, 2014 to 2017 Contractor Gorilla (Granada Hills, Los Angeles) | contractorgorilla.com |
| recent | Seed Advisor, Go-to-Market, who worked the capital raises through the seed stage Ink Games | Ledger |
Early years and lineage
| Year | Claim | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 to 2001 | Worked construction from the age of four, for a stepfather and a father, until he was twenty Family construction companies | Ledger |
| 2000 to 2001 | Set a California sales record for auto policy sales inside his first three months, at his first job outside the trades AAA | Ledger |
| 1999 to 2001 | Ran a deliberate sequence of nine-month jobs to attack his own weak spots rather than finish a degree Car sales and mortgage sales | Ledger |
| 1998 to 2000 | Traded stocks through the internet boom while half-attending college, with a couple of exits that worked Day trading | Ledger |
| 1993 to 1998 | Interned at a packet-networking company from age 13 until it sold to Ericsson for about $285M Advanced Computer Communications (intern) | Ledger |
| 1972 to 1998 | His grandfather authored RFC 302 at UCSB and founded the company that built ARPANET interface hardware Roland F. Bryan, UCSB and ACC | Ledger |
Alex Prince
From the record of Alex Prince, a principal of Common Ground.
| Year | Claim | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 to 2026 | More than $150M transacted in three years across the most sought-after private names in technology Prince Capital (secondaries, names only) | Ledger |
| 2026 | His institutional standard is the review bar for CG's finance-automation work: 'if an output cannot survive his standard, it does not ship' Common Ground (review standard) | Ledger |
| 2025 to 2026 | Built an allocator-facing LinkedIn voice that doubled his following, with posts reaching 159K and 200K impressions LinkedIn ('Contrarian Advisor' voice) | Ledger |
| Jan 2025 to present | Raised $7.5M of debt for a consumer sleep company as strategic advisor Spectrum Sleep (Strategic Advisor) | Ledger |
| 2019 canon / Aug 2025 his dating | Capital principal of Common Ground and its primary deal originator Common Ground (capital principal) | Ledger |
| ~2019 to 2021 | Raised more than $750K into Ink Games' early Series A Ink Games (early Series A) | Ledger |
| ~2018 to 2020 | Closed a $250M allocation from a single multi-family office, the largest ticket of his career Largest single transaction | Ledger |
| 2017 to present | Founded a family-office-style private-markets firm working both sides of late-stage venture primaries and secondaries Prince Capital (CEO & Founder, Miami) | Ledger |
| Jan 2010 to Dec 2013 | Grew a Southern California and Hawaii territory from $20M to $87M in three years, a 335% increase HighMark Capital Management (Regional Director, Southwest) | Ledger |
| Jan 2008 to Jan 2010 | Started his institutional career on Merrill Lynch's alternatives desk through the financial crisis Merrill Lynch (Private Wealth Advisor, Alternatives) | Ledger |
| 2010s to present | Active Series 7 and 63 registered representative; Series 66 no longer active Registered representative | Ledger |
| 2004 or 2005 founded; wound down in the 2007 to 2008 crisis | Founded Red Sam Financial, scaled it to 30-plus agents, then wound it down in the 2008 crisis; sold the mortgage arm to Bank of America and ran that branch about a year Red Sam Financial (founder) | Ledger |
| 2008 to present | Carries 250-plus concurrent financial-advisor and family-office relationships Relationship book | Ledger |
Jimmy Khounlavong
From the record of Jimmy Khounlavong, a principal of Common Ground.
| Year | Claim | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Runs a production content system shipping about a dozen posts a week across five brands in 13-week packs Lip Loi Creative (content engine) | Ledger |
| 2026 | Built Fluidmapper's entire brand from the ground floor: visual engine, colors, fonts, messaging, identity, website, collateral Fluidmapper | Ledger |
| Feb to Aug 2026 | Took a PhD founder with a lab technology he couldn't sell to a full brand system, site, sales deck and banners Montreal deep-tech measurement company (brand system) | Ledger |
| Feb to Jul 2026 | Wrote 'Built. Different.' and the CG signature system, and invented the stackable two-page case study CG now runs on Common Ground brand and case-study format | Ledger |
| Apr 2024 to 2026 | Built the LÏEF brand from the ground up: identity, brand guide, design lookbook and a three-tier selections program for 22 luxury residences LÏEF brand system and Midtown lookbook | Ledger |
| Apr 2024 | Brand strategy for a ~390K-subscriber golf creator who went on to win the inaugural PGA Tour Creator Classic Luke Kwon (golf creator brand) | Ledger |
| 2024 | Brand identity and pitch deck for a sports-science data venture Kinetic ML (brand identity) | Ledger |
| Feb 2023 to present | Co-created the brand and narrative for a golf docuseries that signed Sugar23 and Front Office Sports as executive producers Drive for the Dream (creative direction) | Ledger |
| Feb 2023 to present | Built personal brand architecture for Olympic gold medalists and elite athletes Jasper Sports Management (brand strategy) | Ledger |
| 2020 resume / 2022 PLLC | Built a brand studio around one promise, 'Creating Brands That Fund', with a two-phase method and a productized offer ladder Lip Loi Creative (founder) | Ledger |
| 2018 to 2020 | Delivered Nike's first city-wide online-to-offline scavenger hunt, with Netflix and BAIT Nike Sportswear LA (experiential commerce) | Ledger |
| 2018 to 2020 | Held Nike's number-1 'cool brand' position among LA teens while growing the business and protecting margin Nike Sportswear LA (brand protection) | Ledger |
| 2004 to 2020 | Sixteen years at Nike across nine roles, ending as General Manager Nike tenure | Ledger |
| Jul 2017 to Sep 2018 | Co-authored the NIKEiD to Nike By You global rebrand mid-flight and delivered 30% global revenue growth in FY18 Nike By You (Global Merchandising Sr Director) | Ledger |
| 2017 to 2018 | Worked directly with Pendleton, translating heritage patterns and color stories onto Nike product in the ACG x Pendleton co-brand Nike By You (Pendleton co-brand) | Ledger |
| Jun 2011 to Sep 2015 | Ran North America signature basketball through the Kobe, LeBron, KD and Kyrie era to an all-time revenue high of $912M Nike Basketball (NA Footwear Merchandising Director) | Ledger |
| 2011 to 2015 | Built the signature launch playbook later adopted across Nike, and took basketball into off-court lifestyle across six franchises Nike Basketball (launch playbook and category expansion) | Ledger |
| Mar 2004 to May 2011 | Seven years building the foundation in sales, account and merchandising leadership across major US markets Nike (early sales, account and merchandising roles) | Ledger |
| n/a | BA in Integrated Strategic Communications from the University of Kentucky; licensed real estate agent; ACEL Phoenix mentor Education and licenses | Ledger |
| Full brand strategy for Negotiated Apology, a reconciliation venture founded by a former convict turned lawyer Negotiated Apology | Ledger | |
| Brand strategy and website curation for No Caller ID, plus a mall positioning deck for a sneaker store opening No Caller ID | Ledger | |
| Mentor for the Asian Corporate and Entrepreneur Leadership organization in Phoenix; content-strategy training with Omar El Takori ACEL Phoenix | Ledger | |
| merch director years | North America footwear merchandising director for Nike Basketball through the LeBron 8 to 12, Kobe 7 to 10, KD 4 to 7, Kyrie 1 and 2 and the first Paul George shoe Nike Basketball | Ledger |
| Brought the Zoom Soldier to market at $125 to $130 as the accessible tier under a $210 LeBron signature Nike Basketball | Ledger | |
| North America marketplace merchandising director: merchandised the retail spaces for Finish Line, Hibbett and the boutiques, about $500M of business, team of five Nike North America marketplace | Ledger | |
| Senior merchandising director for NIKEiD, a global materials-and-assortment business rather than a SKU business NIKEiD to Nike By You | Ledger | |
| Ran Nike Sportswear Los Angeles as general manager, working with Drake, Travis Scott and LeBron James on his move to LA Nike Sportswear Los Angeles | Ledger | |
| First UV-activated Air Force 1: white indoors, colors in sunlight, told as the June Gloom story Nike Sportswear Los Angeles | Ledger | |
| teens | Started at sixteen as a stockroom clerk at Finish Line in Kentucky and worked up to assistant manager Finish Line | Ledger |
| about 2 years | Medical supply sales at Medline in Chicago and Memphis, surgery packs as the money maker Medline Industries | Ledger |
| 18 to 20 months | IT sales at CDW in Chicago before taking a step back to enter Nike at the ground floor CDW | Ledger |
Robby Prochnow
From the record of Robby Prochnow, a principal of Common Ground.
| Year | Claim | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Resolves tickets at $0.46 each on its own stack and built $310K of pipeline in six weeks with three agents and no new hires Zen Aegis (unit economics and pipeline) | Ledger |
| Apr to Aug 2026 | Triaged 9,803 emails and reclaimed 34.7 hours a week at 100% SLA, turning 2,120 human corrections into 255 permanent rules Zen Aegis (executive email operations) | Ledger |
| 2025 to 2026 | Delivered medical-record work that historically cost about $75,000 at a fraction of the price in one-tenth the time Engagement: in-house legal team | Ledger |
| 2026 | Five agents on isolated infrastructure reclaimed 71.3 inbox hours in seven days and stood up 17 buy-side engagements Engagement: multi-market business brokerage | Ledger |
| 2026 (5-month retainer) | Full go-to-market build for a B2B SaaS company: 6,048 sessions in 130 days and a peak month up 139% Engagement: B2B SaaS GTM build | Ledger |
| 2026 | Fractional AI officer for a multi-entity holding group: nine agents and five platforms live Engagement: multi-entity holding group | Ledger |
| 2026 | Delivered a complete expert program of 17 modules and 80-plus lessons inside month one Engagement: online education company | Ledger |
| 2026 | Ranked number 2 organically on a competitive metro retirement-planning keyword in the first week with zero ad spend Engagement: independent financial advisory | Ledger |
| 2026 | Three more live client builds, including a registration system for a youth sports nonprofit Engagements: youth sports nonprofit, family foundation, strategy firm | Ledger |
| 2026 | Built a fail-closed gate so no AI assertion ships without a live-validated source: 2,292 blocked, 1,819 caught only at the final gate Governance: Grounding Gate | Ledger |
| 2026 | 462,713 pre-flight verifications across 15,471 sessions with zero identity-binding failures Governance: boot-check ledger | Ledger |
| 2026 | 482 secrets across five isolated vaults, 94 row-level policies with agents as first-class principals, and agents that cannot verify their own work Security: secrets, tenancy and self-verification ban | Ledger |
| 2026 | 26,456 shared memory entries at 99.99% embedded with zero duplicates, watched by nine deadman sentinels Memory, learning and liveness | Ledger |
| 2026 | Built four working apps live in one day, including commercial insurance quoting, plus a public six-factor grant match engine Public builds: Grant Match AI, live-build challenge, agent-run evaluations | Ledger |
| 2026 | Built an agent-native client platform where AI employees run the relationship end to end, plus eight working prototypes across six industries Client Gateway (Foyer Hall) and prototypes | Ledger |
| 2026 | Authored six complete v1.0 SOPs end to end before the first sale Compliance sprint | Ledger |
| 2024 to 2026 | Stack AI certified, Replit Agent top 10%, co-author of a study of 40-plus nonprofit leaders, and a Phoenix Business Brief podcast guest Certifications, publication and media | Ledger |
| career to 2026 | Ran at least 70 audits as Zen Aegis and hundreds across his career Audits (Zen Aegis and career) | Ledger |
| Jul 8 to 12, 2026 | Built a live investor-materials engine within a day of the posting: approved PowerPoint refreshed in place with a machine-checked zero-drift manifest Cascade IR (investor-materials engine) | Ledger |
| Jul 27, 2026 | Authored the reviewer-ready security memo CG hands to client security teams Security and tenant architecture memo | Ledger |
| Oct 2024 to Jul 2025 | Cut supplier onboarding time in half across about 50 suppliers Avnet (Business Strategist, AI Acceleration) | Ledger |
| Nov 2022 to Nov 2024 | Doubled Dell's OEM business outside North America and took some of the first AI solution packages on Dell servers to market Avnet (Global Dell Partnership Lead) | Ledger |
| 2023 to present | Built Zen Aegis from a consulting practice into an AI transformation partner that runs its own company on the stack it deploys Zen Aegis (Founder & CEO) | Ledger |
| 2021 to 2022 | Moved $20M of eight-month-old inventory in three months and turned $300K of Microsoft investment into $9M incremental TD SYNNEX (aged inventory and Microsoft investment) | Ledger |
| 2021 to 2022 | Founded a Mixed Reality services community and raised SLA attainment from 70% to 95% TD SYNNEX (Mixed Reality and operations) | Ledger |
| 2019 to 2021 | Launched security suites that drove 40% of new revenue in their first quarter, with company-record 33% email open rates GoDaddy (Website Security Suites and lifecycle marketing) | Ledger |
| 2021 | Named Microsoft Transformation Partner of the Year at Microsoft Inspire 2021 for the Microsoft business he ran at TD SYNNEX Microsoft Transformation Partner of the Year (TD SYNNEX) | Ledger |
| more than 10 years ago, at Insight (2013 to 2019) | First to architect Device as a Service and take it to market, at Insight, when nobody else was selling it Insight (Device as a Service) | Ledger |
| 2016 to 2017 | Beat quota growth by 200% on the Apple line Insight (BDM, Apple, Western Region) | Ledger |
| Feb 2013 to 2016 | Built a $10M-plus SMB book from scratch, then was promoted to architect multi-vendor solutions Insight Enterprises (Senior Field AE) | Ledger |
| pre-2013 | Ran two businesses before graduating, a computer refurbish-and-resale shop and a painting company Pre-2013 (college businesses) | Ledger |
Nick Scavio
From the record of Nick Scavio, a principal of Common Ground.
| Year | Claim | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Feb to Apr 2026 | Papered the rooftop telecom easement assignment and the lender's SNDA that freed working capital for a redevelopment 301 Osborn rooftop lease sale (papering) | Ledger |
| Feb to May 2026 | Redlined an architect's AIA contract and profit-sharing note, flagging compounding payment language and equity-like recharacterization risk 301 Osborn architect contract review | Ledger |
| Jun 2022 to present | Opened his own firm and became general counsel to an entire operating group Scavio Law Firm PLLC (owner) | Ledger |
| 2022 to present | In-house VP of Legal Affairs at a multi-state cannabis operator Mint Cannabis (VP Legal Affairs / GC) | Ledger |
| 2016 to present | Named a Southwest Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2016 Southwest Super Lawyers Rising Star | Ledger |