Steve Peak

“Software with a conscience.” Own product strategy, roadmap, UX, and delivery across the product line — and still ship the code myself when needed.

• Founded the studio and defined the product vision, positioning, pricing, and go-to-market for multiple SaaS products from zero.
• Ran the full product loop for each product: customer discovery → prioritization → MVP scope → launch → feedback → iteration.
• Seedling CRM: product-managed and built an all-in-one business platform (CRM, invoicing, projects, bookings, accounting) with Stripe/Square billing and Claude / MCP / Zapier integrations. Owned feature prioritization across competing workflows.
• Seedling Agent: defined the product problem (local AI that actually does work on your machine), scoped the agent + plugin model, and shipped the checkout, licensing, and update pipeline.
• SafeNode (safenode.tech): product for AI-agent safety — multi-tenant policy firewall with allow / warn / review / deny verdicts, risk scoring, and audit logs. Framed the buyer problem, designed the evaluate API surface, and shipped the Filament admin experience.

• Independent contractor for product, web, design, and art work — usually the single point of contact from discovery through launch.
• Scoped client problems, translated vague goals into shippable milestones, managed timelines and tradeoffs, then delivered websites, web apps, and mobile prototypes.
• Partnered with founders and stakeholders as a de facto product owner when teams were thin: requirements, UX decisions, prioritization, and handoff.

• Built customer-facing modules and components for the new Node.js platform, focused on data visualization — partnering with product and design on what to ship next.
• Came on as a contractor and got converted to full-time based on delivery and product judgment.

• Built the first Delvv mobile app prototype in PhoneGap — discovery through clickable UX — to validate product direction with stakeholders.
• Wore a hybrid product/engineering hat: clarified requirements, made UX tradeoffs, and shipped a demoable MVP.

• Lead front-end developer for the California office; helped stand up CA operations and translate business needs into shippable UI on a LAMP stack.
• Coordinated with leadership and stakeholders on priorities while owning delivery of customer-facing front-end work.

• Turned designer comps into cross-browser front-end components, assets, and pages. Built a big chunk of the front end. LAMP stack.

• Built a lot of the customer-facing pieces of the original site in JavaScript and PHP, and led a rebuild of the internal CMS.

• Early-career software development role.

• Co-founded a regenerative farm, natural building school, and community project on Hawaii’s Big Island; one of the core LLC managers owning vision, priorities, and day-to-day delivery.
• Product ownership for the farm/school: defined what we build next (structures, systems, programs), sequenced work against budget/season/crew capacity, and iterated from field feedback the same way a PM iterates from users.
• Land expansion programs: planned and oversaw multi-acre expansion projects — clearing, contouring, planting systems, and access — coordinating big crews (often ~20 people) across phases with clear milestones and tradeoffs.
• New structure builds: owned scoping, design decisions, materials, sequencing, and crew leadership for new buildings and teaching spaces (timber / earthbag / natural building), from concept through usable shelter.
• Major infrastructure upgrades: planned and delivered off-grid water catchment & filtration, solar/power, and related farm systems — treating each as a product with constraints, dependencies, and a shippable “done.”
• Led teaching programs and stakeholder communication (students, partners, permitting, vendors) while keeping the operational roadmap honest under real weather, supply, and labor constraints.

• Bought land, then productized a full permaculture farm + natural building school: education offering, site plan, infrastructure stack, and guest/student experience.
• Owned end-to-end delivery of food, water, and power systems — planning upgrades, sequencing builds, and running operations until the systems were reliable enough to host programs.
• Led structure and site buildouts with mixed crews and students; set priorities, taught standards, and shipped usable spaces on a living campus.
• Ran the school as a real product: curriculum framing, intake, on-site delivery, and continuous improvement from student and land feedback — before selling the property as a going concern.

• Repeated pattern across several farms: walk the site, define the problem, propose a phased plan, staff the crew, ship the next vertical slice, then revise the plan from what the land and people teach you.
• Oversaw large-area land work and infrastructure upgrades (water, access, power, planting systems) where scope, risk, and crew capacity had to be managed like a product roadmap — not a wish list.
• Coordinated cross-functional “teams” in the field: builders, farmers, volunteers, students, suppliers, and local authorities — translating constraints into decisions people could execute.
• Comfortable being the person who says no to nice-to-haves so the critical path (shelter, water, power, food systems) actually ships.