Hope Media Group
Integrated communication planning, brand, campaigns, content, creative, digital, and cross-functional execution inside an established media organization.
Selected work
Built in the field, where the neat diagrams stop being neat.
The common thread is not an industry. It is taking responsibility for a complicated idea, building the system around it, and staying close enough to learn where reality disagrees.
Flagship case study · Oikos
Building a hospitality company that can carry its own weight.
30+short-term rentals managed
2 statesoperations across Texas and Tennessee
1 modelowner trust, guest experience, durable operations, and mission
The operating challenge
Property management is a stack of promises: to the owner, the guest, the cleaner, the maintenance team, and the financial model. Growth adds doors, but it also multiplies the places where a dropped handoff becomes someone else’s bad day.
What I own
Venture strategy, portfolio operations, owner experience, marketing, systems design, financial visibility, team coordination, and the ongoing work of removing myself as the answer to every exception.
What it proves
I know the difference between a system that looks intelligent in a demo and one that survives a late turnover, a pricing edge case, an owner question, and a guest waiting at the door.
Operating system · BrendanOS
AI attached to actual responsibility.
BrendanOS is an AI-native operating system built around a portfolio of real companies and creative work.
Specialized agents support strategy, operations, finance, marketing, technology, research, and production. The difficult part is not producing more output. It is preserving context, assigning ownership, setting authority boundaries, validating the work, and returning the right judgment to a human.
Read the operating thesis →SYSTEM PRINCIPLE / 01
“AI becomes useful when it owns a bounded outcome inside a real operating system.”
The org chart matters as much as the model.
Experience behind the work
Range, with a through-line.
Education, marketing, operations, technology, and organizational leadership all taught the same lesson from a different angle: the idea is not finished until people can carry it.
Launch Global
Eight years developing leaders, training systems, instructional materials, and distributed teams serving high-impact communities across Texas and Arizona.
Dead Games
CEO responsibility across product development, team recruitment, public communication, and the realities of building an early-stage technology company.
Founder-led organizations
Prior work spanning fractional COO and CMO leadership, interim marketing direction, digital agency building, nonprofit leadership, and creative production.
Selected ventures
Other things I’m building.
These are ventures and creative projects at different stages—not a claim that every experiment is already a mature company.
01 · Experiential hospitality
Big South Glamping
A profitable outdoor-hospitality venture near Big South Fork, built around place, restoration, and memorable stays.
Visit venture ↗02 · EducationHomeschool Da Vinci
Faith-integrated enrichment for curious homeschool families—built around courage, curiosity, compassion, and making.
Visit venture ↗03 · MusicOrdinary Liturgies
Sacred indie-folk music rooted in the ordinary, the mysterious, and the presence of God in daily life.
Visit venture ↗04 · Family gamingCrystal Realms
An original family-first trading card game built around creatures, crystals, strategy, collecting, and play around a real table.
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