Quantitative Growth / Product Design / AI
I turn complex signals into growth people can trust.
I am a data scientist, product designer, founder and growth strategist with more than 20 years of experience building companies, acquiring customers and translating complex information into clear, measurable decisions. I combine quantitative analysis, product thinking, organic growth and AI to create products and systems that help people and organizations move forward.
Las Vegas, Nevada • Founder • Product Strategist • Data Scientist
Proof
- 20+ years
- Building, growing and advising products
- Hundreds
- Mobile and web apps shipped
- Millions
- Daily active users achieved across products
- Tens of millions
- Monthly website impressions achieved
- 12+ features
- By Apple across 5+ categories
- $300K
- Angel capital raised for Gimado
Figures above are portfolio-wide results achieved across many products and ventures.
How I create value
How I create value.
Across technology, consumer products, digital publishing and insurance lead generation, my work has centered on the same challenge: understanding intent, identifying risk or opportunity and turning complex signals into useful action. I bring together data science, product design, communication and disciplined execution to build trust, improve acquisition and solve problems that resist conventional answers.
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Understand people and intent
Ask precise questions, recognize what matters and identify the real problem before proposing a solution.
- 02
Make complexity useful
Turn technical information, uncertainty and competing signals into choices people can understand and act upon.
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Measure what improves
Use data, experimentation and AI to improve products, acquisition and decision-making without replacing human judgment.
Experience
Twenty years of building and growing.
2019–Present
Next Computer
Founder & Principal
Lead digital product, quantitative growth, organic acquisition, AI and brand/IP strategy for enterprise and entrepreneurial clients. Translate customer, search, market and sentiment data into positioning, acquisition opportunities and clearer customer experiences. Build full-stack web and mobile products using JavaScript, HTML5, Swift, frontend/backend systems and AI-agent workflows.
2022
Six-month engagement
Brave
VP of Growth / Client Engagement
Served as VP of Growth while Brave was also a client, applying quantitative growth, organic acquisition, brand positioning and product strategy to a global privacy technology company.
2013–2019
Independent Mobile & Digital Ventures
Founder / Product & Growth Lead
Shipped hundreds of applications. Across the portfolio, products reached millions of daily active users, tens of millions of monthly impressions, top-free, top-paid and top-grossing App Store positions, and more than a dozen Apple features across five or more categories. Built a Flipagram-branded venture that approached $800,000 in annual revenue.
Early 2000s–2013
Digital Publishing, Insurance & Early Ventures
Founder / Publisher
Built long-tail search properties connecting high-intent consumers with major insurance providers through CPC publishing. Developed experience in domains, brand valuation, trademark-risk mitigation and strategic digital-asset sales. Founded Gimado/Dorble, raised $300,000 in angel capital and built an audio index of approximately 1.2 million files. Dorble was featured by WIRED in 2008.
Selected clients & client relationships
- Microsoft
- Samsung
- Brave
- Michaels
- Hallmark
- Nike
These organizations are client relationships, not employers.
Selected work
I build new products—and find new growth inside familiar brands.
These are not isolated design exercises. My work spans AI-native creation, real-time intelligence, consumer platforms and the revival of recognizable internet brands. Each project combines product execution with a clear strategy for making complex technology useful and creating sustainable organic growth.
Brand revivals / Organic growth
Rebuilding recognizable digital brands for a new generation.
I revived Stumble, Flipagram and We Heart It as modern digital products, combining established brand recognition with new utility and SEO-led organic growth. Together, they demonstrate my ability to identify dormant brand equity, understand existing search demand, reposition a product and turn recognition into renewed usage.
- Discovery / Brand RevivalStumbleA modern human-curated web-discovery experience that brings serendipity back to an internet dominated by algorithmic feeds, helping people find useful, interesting and unexpected sites they might never encounter otherwise.Strategic proofBrand revitalization, product repositioning, SEO content architecture and the ability to convert enduring search interest into organic product discovery.stumble.ink
- Creator Tools / Brand RevivalFlipagramA renewed consumer-creation product built around a recognizable video-storytelling brand, making it easy for people to transform photos, media and personal moments into shareable visual stories.Strategic proofRecognizing underused brand equity, rebuilding a consumer product around modern behavior, developing monetization opportunities and growing through organic acquisition. An earlier Flipagram-branded venture approached $800,000 in annual revenue.flipagram.org
- Visual Discovery / Brand RevivalWe Heart ItA modern visual-discovery and collection platform rebuilt around inspiration, personal taste and the human desire to save, organize and rediscover meaningful visual ideas.Strategic proofConsumer-brand revitalization, repeat-engagement product design and SEO-led pathways that transform existing search intent and brand recognition into renewed discovery.weheartit.net
Additional product systems
- AI / CommunicationTalkboyAn AI conversation-intelligence product that helps people interpret real-world exchanges, recognize the meaning beneath the words and decide what to say or do next.Strategic proofTransforming emotional, unstructured human communication into clear, empathetic and actionable decision support.talkboy.org
- AI / WritingTypepadAn AI-assisted editing product that strengthens clarity, structure and expression while preserving the author’s individual voice rather than replacing it.Strategic proofHuman-centered AI design, language-product strategy and the ability to turn complex model behavior into a focused, intuitive creative workflow.typepad.cc
- Real-Time Data / Public SafetyDispatchRadarA live public-safety intelligence platform that organizes fast-moving incident information into a clear, location-aware experience people can understand at a glance.Strategic proofReal-time data systems, geospatial product thinking and the translation of fragmented, high-stakes information into useful public intelligence.dispatch.omniiii.com
- Gaming / PlatformFameboyA browser-based handheld gaming platform bringing more than 100 playable experiences into one cohesive, accessible product ecosystem.Strategic proofPlatform architecture, reusable game systems, large-scale content operations and the ability to ship and manage a broad consumer-product portfolio.fameboy.net
More live work
- ZuneAI support agents designed to make customer assistance more immediate, useful and scalable.zune.omniiii.com
- ScottradeAI-assisted market intelligence that organizes signals and market movement into clearer decision support.scottrade.net
- EpinionsProduct-review and sentiment intelligence that converts consumer opinion into structured insight.epinions.cc
- InviteA mobile-first system for creating, publishing and sharing polished digital invitations.invite.omniiii.com
- VidmateA real-time social-video product designed around immediate person-to-person connection.omegle.health
I have spent my career teaching myself unfamiliar systems, finding the leverage point and staying with hard problems until they move.
That is the same persistence I bring to every client, product, partnership and unfamiliar problem.
Contact
Let’s build something useful—and make it grow.
I’m open to conversations about quantitative growth, product strategy, AI, client advisory work and ambitious roles where unconventional problem-solving creates measurable value.
Email Nicholas- LocationLas Vegas, NV
- Emailnickjsheriff@gmail.com
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