CASE STUDY 03 · STARTUP · MAY 2026–PRESENT

Engineering at Elevair

At 17, engineering the customer engines local businesses run on, and leading the research behind who to build them for.

RESEARCH TEAM I LEAD

100+

BUSINESSES PITCHED

YEARS OLD

The problem

Local and regional businesses run on a pile of tools that don't talk to each other: a website here, a booking form there, a CRM nobody updates. Elevair builds and connects the whole customer engine as one machine. My job is to help engineer it and to find the businesses that need it most.

What I built

Websites, internal tools, and automations from scratch (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Next.js), plus the pitch decks, proposals, and product demos that go in front of prospects. On the research side I lead a team of four that identifies, researches, and qualifies the businesses worth pitching.

The Elevair product homepage, a dark site whose headline reads that every system you run works alone, and Elevair makes them work as one. — EXHIBIT E-07 · A customer engine engineered at Elevair, an AI startup.

The numbers

A four-person research team under me, and over a hundred businesses pitched by phone and in person across Houston. (Who they are stays confidential: the map on the homepage shows the where, never the who.)

What it taught me

What it means to ship software other people depend on, and how much of engineering is really understanding the person you're building for. Doing the sales and the building at the same time made me better at both.