CO-FOUNDER + CEO, SAGEWORX
The next era of creative production is already here.
Six peaks deep: stage, film, broadcast, the social-first era, big-agency studios -- and now Sageworx, the AI-forward creative curation I run. 120+ members. No holding company. No fixed address. No limits.
I build teams + machines that make creative work.
Co-founder + CEO, Sageworx · Writing The M-Shaped Career · 120+ curated creative members
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Careers aren't ladders anymore.
The model we inherited says you pick a lane and go up. T-shaped, they call it. Deep in one thing, shallow awareness of everything else. That worked when industries sat still.
Mine didn't. I started in dance and architecture at NYU, performed on Broadway while teaching myself filmmaking end to end, built one of the first digital content studios at a broadcast network, led social-first production through the Oreo and Oscar Mayer era at 360i, built studios inside 360i, Viacom, R/GA, and BBDO, and now I run Sageworx -- an AI-forward creative curation of 120+ members across four continents.
That's not a ladder. It's a mountain range. Six peaks, each one higher because of the valleys between them. I call it the M-shaped career -- and I think it's where the best creative leaders are headed, whether they know it yet or not.
~1994 -- 2005
The Stage
Broadway, ballet, and the discipline of live performance.
2000 -- 2005 (overlapping the Broadway years)
The Film Camera
Independent films, a TV series, and a self-taught filmmaking practice.
2005 -- 2008
Broadcast
NBC Digital Studios and the first experiments in internet-native content.
~2005 -- 2015
Social-First
Big Fuel, 360i, Oreo, Oscar Mayer, and the Cannes Lions that proved the model.
2015 -- 2019
The Studios
Four studio builds -- 360i, Viacom, R/GA, BBDO -- at the polished end of the craft.
2019 -- Now
Sageworx
Sageworx, 120+ curated members, and a new way to build creative organizations.
What I'm building now.
The Curation
Sageworx
An AI-forward creative curation -- strategists, designers, producers, and builders working with AI as infrastructure, not gimmick. We do the work agencies talk about doing.
sageworx.com →The Book
The M-Shaped Career
A book about what happens when you stop climbing one ladder and start building across peaks. For creative leaders who've been told their zigzag resume is a liability. It's not.
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The Stage
Speaking
I talk about AI-forward creative teams, M-shaped careers, and why the org chart is the real creative product. Practitioner talks, not pundit theater.
Topics + booking →Selected work.
Thirty years of making things. These are the ones that changed what I did next.
Latest thinking.
June 2026
Anyone Can Rent the Same Model. Almost No One Builds the Same Harness.
The magic was never the model -- it's everything you build around it. Ten durable principles for designing AI agents, and why the harness is the real work.
Read →2026
The Decoupling (Series)
What happens when creative quality decouples from production cost? When a three-person team with AI infrastructure can produce what used to require thirty? The economics of creative production are rewiring themselves, and most agencies haven't noticed yet.
Read →2025
Put It On Its Feet
In theater, "putting it on its feet" means moving from the table read to the stage. Most organizations spend too long at the table. The work gets real when you stand up and do it in front of an audience. That's true for plays, products, and AI adoption.
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