Jeff Hinck

🤘 What We Do PLAN What You Get: Board‑ready AI roadmap & ROI model Why It Matters: Align execs; secure funding BUILD What You Get: Production‑ready MVP in less than 90 days Why It Matters: Working software beats pilot purgatory OWN What You Get: Training, boot‑camps, governance Why It Matters: Your team scales the win 🤘 Proof, Not Promises. Insurance: We built a real‑time underwriting AI that drove +20 % revenue lift. Enterprise: Designed, built, and deployed an enterprise wide workforce platform that delivered 30% productivity uplift for thousands of employees. Healthcare: Led their C‑suite 2030 AI roadmap that was adopted at the board level. 🤘 Why leaders pick Blank Metal instead of big consulting: Lean, senior teams (<5 % overhead). Your budget builds instead just burning. Outcomes, not hour factories. We measure success in ROI, not utilization. AI-native from day one. Everything (workflows, processes, internal software/tools, incentives, etc) is built for velocity and iteration. Partners by design. Deep expertise and partnerships in the best models, APIs, and ecosystems. Ship in weeks, not quarters. Time‑boxed MVPs land with KPIs wired in day one. 🚀 Blank Metal is fueled by a $3M seed round from Rally Ventures, Traction Capital, and Pure Play Partners. 🤘 For 15 years our core crew has shipped market‑defining digital and AI products (from napkin sketch to exit) and now helps enterprises turn AI ideas into production software quickly, safely, and at a fraction of big‑consulting overhead. 🤘 Life at Blank Metal Small, autonomous squads vs. sprawling org charts. We hire builders who want to move fast, obsess over craft, and change what’s possible for our clients (and their own careers). AI powered, impact‑obsessed. **Let’s build something that actually ships.**

VanishID offers an automated solution delivered as a managed service that proactively and continuously protects organizations by reducing the personal and work-related digital exposure of executives, employees, and their families. For more information, contact VanishID at info@vanishid.com, visit us at vanishid.com, and follow us on LinkedIn.

Our mission is to revolutionize care delivery through the practical application of clinical AI.

Vertical Insure makes protection simple and accessible - built directly into the platforms people already use. We partner with leading vertical SaaS providers to offer coverage at the point of need through our distribution platform, ViCoverage. With deep roots in both tech and insurance, we’re helping shape the next chapter of SaaS: a world where protection isn’t an afterthought, it’s built in.

Launched in 2016, RentSpree embarked on a mission to revolutionize the residential rental application process. Today, weve successfully transitioned an industry from cumbersome paper applications to a streamlined digital experience. With over 3 million renters placed in homes using our simpler and transparent platform, weve made significant strides but realize our journey is far from over. Our vision expands beyond simplifying the rental process. We strive to create lasting, meaningful connections among renters, agents, and landlords, building a community founded on trust, efficiency, and satisfaction. As we look ahead, we are excited and committed to leading the charge in elevating the residential rental industry experience. Join us on this exciting journey as we continue to reinvent the rental experience, creating a feeling of home in every transaction.

Were not a workforce management tool – were a workforce empowerment tool. As the leading cloud-based solution for the gig economy, Nowsta streamlines how businesses hire, schedule, and manage their flex workforce. Trusted by some of the largest brands in professional sports, hospitality, staffing, and more, Nowsta’s centralized platform is the fastest and easiest way to source workers, hire employees, organize schedules, track time & attendance, and improve communication. Founded in 2016, Nowsta’s mission is to equip both workers and businesses with an all-in-one platform to simplify and humanize staffing and labor-management processes, creating seamless, meaningful work experiences for the flex economy.

Harness is a rapidly growing startup that is disrupting the software delivery market. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes product modules for every aspect of software delivery, including: Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Continuous Error Tracking, Code Repository, Internal Developer Portal, Software Supply Chain Assurance, Infrastructure as Code Management and AI/ML infused throughout with AI Development Assistant (AIDA). The platform is designed to help companies accelerate their cloud initiatives as well as their adoption of containers and orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Amazon ECS and make software delivery easier, giving devs their nights and weekends back.

While billions of dollars in education funding exist, a simple way to manage and apply to awards has not. Scholarship and grant providers need a better way to navigate financial and operational complexity to help individuals access support for their education. With Kaleidoscope, sponsors can benchmark the effectiveness of their financial support, gain relevant, current information about the applicants they are selecting, disburse funds directly to recipients – all while fostering meaningful, long-lasting relationships with those they support.

Yardstik is a technology company on a mission to build trust and safety into the Internet economy, one platform at a time. And they do it through a white-labeled and easily integrated human security platform built for platforms. Powered by a consultative approach and their “find a way to yes” core value, Yardstik designs solutions—industry-specific background screening, certification, and training packages—that are uniquely fit for marketplaces and SaaS platforms. White-labeled and API-first, Yardstik empowers customers to take the lead as champions for safety in their industries. On average, customers save 25% versus traditional one-size-fits-all screening platforms. Yardstik’s tailored solutions introduce platform revenue sharing options and cost-saving efficiencies like Precision Checking. It enables businesses to enjoy the margins and benefits of a home-grown human security solution quickly, offered as an extension of their platform, without taking on any of the risk or investment of building it themselves.

JustiFis mission is to democratize access to competitive payment processing rates and embedded fintech products. They aim to enable and empower vertical SaaS platforms to reach their greatest potential and to create a world in which any platforms ability to participate in the economics of funds flow isn’t limited to volume of funds or an objective set of rules - which historically has limited numerous platforms from dominating their corner of the internet.

Krista enables companies to elegantly orchestrate processes across people, apps, and AI. Krista provides a natural language processing based platform to help companies integrate any AI into processes to improve business outcomes.

Parallax is a forecasting and resource management platform that helps digital agencies, software development shops and consultancies grow by creating a shared perspective across their organization.

Foodsby is the leading lunch delivery marketplace for people at work. We bring more meal options and variety to you by connecting you with local and national restaurant brands you know and love! A few taps in the app will bring meals from your favorite restaurants right to select homes, apartments, and offices for just $1.99—no tipping, no minimums, no hidden fees. Since 2012, weve been committed to building a marketplace that can serve an entire community of restaurants, office buildings, and customers. In that time, we’ve helped restaurants deliver over 10 million meals to hungry people across 150+ cities.

Crowd Street is a leading platform for direct-access private market investing. The company offers a carefully selected marketplace of alternative investment opportunities that have historically only been available to a small group of people. In addition to providing advanced tools, research, and insights to help investors confidently explore these exclusive opportunities, Crowd Street is also building a member experience rooted in trust and experience – working to further bridge the gap between investment opportunities and our members financial ambitions. Learn more at https://www.crowdstreet.com/. CrowdStreet, Inc. (Crowd Street) offers investment opportunities on its website (the “Marketplace”). Broker-dealer services in connection with the placement of securities are offered through CrowdStreet Capital LLC (Crowd Street Capital), a registered broker-dealer Member FINRA/SIPC. Investment advisory services are offered exclusively to private funds and not otherwise provided to Crowd Street’s members through CrowdStreet Advisors, LLC (Crowd Street Advisors), a federally registered investment adviser. This communication is for informational purposes only and should not be regarded as a recommendation, an offer to sell securities, or a solicitation to buy any investment products or services. Investment opportunities available through Crowd Street are speculative and involve substantial risk. Visit CrowdStreet.com for additional disclosures, our Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy.

Total Expert is the purpose-built customer engagement platform trusted by more than 200 financial enterprises. The platform unifies data, marketing, sales, and compliance solutions to deliver the perfect customer journey across every financial milestone. Total Expert turns customer insights into actions to increase loyalty and drive growth for banks, lenders, credit unions, and insurance companies.

🤘 What We Do PLAN What You Get: Board‑ready AI roadmap & ROI model Why It Matters: Align execs; secure funding BUILD What You Get: Production‑ready MVP in less than 90 days Why It Matters: Working software beats pilot purgatory OWN What You Get: Training, boot‑camps, governance Why It Matters: Your team scales the win 🤘 Proof, Not Promises. Insurance: We built a real‑time underwriting AI that drove +20 % revenue lift. Enterprise: Designed, built, and deployed an enterprise wide workforce platform that delivered 30% productivity uplift for thousands of employees. Healthcare: Led their C‑suite 2030 AI roadmap that was adopted at the board level. 🤘 Why leaders pick Blank Metal instead of big consulting: Lean, senior teams (<5 % overhead). Your budget builds instead just burning. Outcomes, not hour factories. We measure success in ROI, not utilization. AI-native from day one. Everything (workflows, processes, internal software/tools, incentives, etc) is built for velocity and iteration. Partners by design. Deep expertise and partnerships in the best models, APIs, and ecosystems. Ship in weeks, not quarters. Time‑boxed MVPs land with KPIs wired in day one. 🚀 Blank Metal is fueled by a $3M seed round from Rally Ventures, Traction Capital, and Pure Play Partners. 🤘 For 15 years our core crew has shipped market‑defining digital and AI products (from napkin sketch to exit) and now helps enterprises turn AI ideas into production software quickly, safely, and at a fraction of big‑consulting overhead. 🤘 Life at Blank Metal Small, autonomous squads vs. sprawling org charts. We hire builders who want to move fast, obsess over craft, and change what’s possible for our clients (and their own careers). AI powered, impact‑obsessed. **Let’s build something that actually ships.**

VanishID offers an automated solution delivered as a managed service that proactively and continuously protects organizations by reducing the personal and work-related digital exposure of executives, employees, and their families. For more information, contact VanishID at info@vanishid.com, visit us at vanishid.com, and follow us on LinkedIn.

Our mission is to revolutionize care delivery through the practical application of clinical AI.

Vertical Insure makes protection simple and accessible - built directly into the platforms people already use. We partner with leading vertical SaaS providers to offer coverage at the point of need through our distribution platform, ViCoverage. With deep roots in both tech and insurance, we’re helping shape the next chapter of SaaS: a world where protection isn’t an afterthought, it’s built in.

Launched in 2016, RentSpree embarked on a mission to revolutionize the residential rental application process. Today, weve successfully transitioned an industry from cumbersome paper applications to a streamlined digital experience. With over 3 million renters placed in homes using our simpler and transparent platform, weve made significant strides but realize our journey is far from over. Our vision expands beyond simplifying the rental process. We strive to create lasting, meaningful connections among renters, agents, and landlords, building a community founded on trust, efficiency, and satisfaction. As we look ahead, we are excited and committed to leading the charge in elevating the residential rental industry experience. Join us on this exciting journey as we continue to reinvent the rental experience, creating a feeling of home in every transaction.