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Founder & Owner-Operator · Strategy Labs AI

Daniel Ramirez.

I build companies, then build the software they run on.

The arc

Operator → Builder → Owner

Nine years running a $30M-a-year solar company — exited. Fourteen months building BriteBuild, the software that runs that industry, solo — sold. Now I run Strategy Labs AI, shipping AI-native systems for clients, with a golf app in TestFlight beta on the side.

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Daniel Ramirez N°02 / 26
Portrait of Daniel Ramirez, Placerville, California, 2026.
// now
Strategy Labs · Breakfast Ball
// sold & exited
BriteBuild · Gold Rush

arc

One career, three chapters.

Ran the company. Built the software it needed. Sold that too. Now I do it for clients.

  1. 01 / Operator 2015 — 2024

    Ran the company

    Co-founded Gold Rush Energy Solutions and ran it as COO for nine years. $30M+ peak annual revenue, a 70-rep sales org built from zero, 40 MW installed, $130M in lifetime sales. Taught myself to code by building the tools we needed. Exited in 2024.

    $130M lifetime sales
  2. 02 / Builder 2025 — 2026

    Built the software

    Created BriteBuild — a multi-tenant platform for the solar industry: CRM, design, pricing, financing, contracts, scheduling. Built it solo in fourteen months, from a thin calculator to the system EPCs run on. Sold it to ShimmerWorks Inc.

    Built solo · sold
  3. 03 / Owner 2024 →

    Runs the firm

    Founded Strategy Labs AI the same year I exited — BriteBuild was its first engagement. I design and ship AI-native systems for clients: agent orchestration, on-prem inference, full-stack builds, Claude Code in the loop daily. Breakfast Ball, a native iOS + watchOS golf app, ships on the side.

    Strategy Labs AI

work

Six things, shipped end‑to‑end.

Full case studies
BriteBuild
Flagship

Vertical SaaS · built solo · sold 2026

BriteBuild

Multi-tenant operating system for the solar industry — CRM, design, pricing, financing, contracts, scheduling, contractor ops. Created it, built it solo for fourteen months, sold it to ShimmerWorks Inc.

commits
722
DB migrations
291+
insertions
479k
outcome
sold

stack

The tools, ordered by how often I touch them.

Categorized by era. The operator-era tools earned their place — a decade with them — but the new stack is what I reach for first.

01

AI & agents

Daily practice, not a bullet point — 2.59B tokens through the loop in 2025 alone.

  • Claude Code
  • Claude API
  • Codex (OpenAI)
  • Cursor
  • OpenClaw (author)
  • Custom agent harnesses
  • Custom Claude Code skills
  • RAG pipelines
  • On-prem inference (CUDA · Apple Silicon)
  • Voice (Whisper · TTS)

02

Web & data

What BriteBuild shipped on, and what Strategy Labs ships on now.

  • TypeScript
  • Svelte 5 · SvelteKit
  • PostgreSQL (bitemporal · RLS)
  • Supabase
  • Rust → WebAssembly
  • Node.js
  • Python · FastAPI
  • Tailwind CSS
  • WebSockets
  • Vitest · Playwright
  • AWS · Cloudflare
  • GitHub Actions · Sentry

03

Native & mobile

Breakfast Ball's stack — four Apple targets, in TestFlight beta.

  • Swift · SwiftUI
  • ActivityKit (Live Activities)
  • WidgetKit
  • WatchConnectivity
  • CoreLocation · MapKit
  • Capacitor (plugin author)
  • Kotlin services
  • APNS
  • TestFlight · App Store Connect

receipts

Numbers from both halves of the career.

Operator credentials and engineering proof points, side by side. No vague claims, no adjectives.

$130M
Lifetime sales · Gold Rush Energy Solutions

Nine years co-founding and operating a $30M+/yr solar installer. Exited 2024.

2
Companies exited

Gold Rush Energy Solutions in 2024. BriteBuild, sold to ShimmerWorks Inc., in 2026.

14 mo
BriteBuild · calculator → sold platform

722 commits, 479k insertions, 291+ PostgreSQL migrations. One engineer.

1530 → 0
svelte-check warnings · BriteBuild monorepo

Drove the codebase to zero — and kept it there.

4
Apple targets in TestFlight beta · Breakfast Ball

137k LOC TypeScript + 11.7k Swift. Live Activities, watch sync, a settlement engine with 188 tests.

$1.39M
Co-op building purchased · board co-led

Member campaign raised $155K+ toward the down payment. Serving as VP & Secretary of the board.

off-keyboard

The rest of the life that makes the work possible.

The Sierra foothills aren't a backdrop. They're the operating environment.

  • Placerville Food Co-op

    VP & Secretary · Board of Directors

    Co-led the $1.39M purchase of the building the co-op operates out of — members raised $155K+ for the down payment. Now stewarding governance, finance, and the long-term plan.

  • The Band Room

    Co-founder

    Built a small live-music venue with my hometown. Played there, ran the soundboard, locked up at midnight, opened again Friday.

  • Placerville, California

    Home base

    Sierra foothills. The same hour-long-drive radius where I grew up, met my wife, raised kids, and started both companies.

contact

Pitch me something hard. I'll tell you what it takes.

Best reach is email. I'm awake early, read every cold inbound, and move fastest on projects where domain depth plus modern AI tooling changes what's possible.

$ curl -X POST pterodaniel.com/contact \
  -H "Subject: let's build" \
  -d @your-idea.md
→ 200 OK // reply within a day