Ben Fisher 🏴‍☠️

About

My friend Paul once described me as a "Human Zapier." That checks out. I'm a solid programmer and a decent designer, but those are just the means. I get an unhealthy amount of satisfaction from eliminating inefficiency by building software tools. I don't stop until the solution feels obvious, simple, and genuinely fun to use. *** Right now, every CEO I talk to is asking the same thing: how do I actually use AI without wasting six months and six figures on the wrong bet? I've been a CEO twice, a CTO three times. I co-founded CartHook ($250M in incremental revenue for Shopify merchants, acquired 2022). Over the past year, I've gone deep on AI — building products, running build sprints, and training engineering teams. I run Dear Ben, a podcast on practical AI for CEOs, and recently built Promptó (a tool to help you get better responses from your AI tools). Most of my work falls into two buckets: - Figure out what's worth doing. An AI Diagnostic where I review your situation, come in with questions, and we work through it together. You walk away with a decision-ready brief — what to do, what NOT to do, and how to know if it's working. - Build it or get your team ready. Sometimes that's

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