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Leading marketing at Cooley. Selectively open to consulting, speaking, and creative collaborations.

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Last updated · 2026-05-31

Now.

Three layers: what I am building, what I am incubating, and what I am learning. Ideas stay here until they earn a project page.

Currently Building

Active work with momentum. Things I am executing on right now.

  • Digital marketing at Cooley. Long-horizon strategy, operational clarity, and systems that scale without losing quality.
  • GoYou. AI-assisted goal setting and life planning, shipped in tight experimental loops.
  • JamesHallWorks.com. Documenting active work and thinking in one place.
  • Make It Factory. A downtown Ashburn experiment: creative hub, incubator, and proof that small towns can run ambitious ideas.

Incubating

Ideas I am shaping before they become full projects. These live here on purpose, not on the Projects page yet.

  • One Love News (OLN). A storytelling and media platform. Early stage. Testing narrative, format, and what "useful news" looks like for the communities it serves.
  • Keep it Queer (KIQ). A culture-forward concept with Kamo King. Exploring identity, programming, and how design and story can move together before anything is scaled.

Currently Learning

  • AI workflow design. Using AI to help people build useful things, not just produce more content.
  • Enterprise marketing craft. Sharpening judgment, trust, and prioritization inside a high-stakes environment.
  • Creative discipline. Painting and photography keep taste honest and attention sharp.
  • Tool fluency. Testing new AI tools and deciding what belongs in the real workflow versus noise.

Currently Exploring

  • Marketing after AI. When everyone can generate content, taste and strategy become the moat, not volume.
  • Small-town innovation. What happens when people in places like South Georgia get the same tools Silicon Valley has had for years.
  • Building in public. Sharing more unfinished work, fewer polished postmortems.

Current Priorities

  • Deliver meaningful work at Cooley. Strong execution, measurable outcomes, long-term brand equity.
  • Ship GoYou in tighter loops. Smaller releases, faster feedback, better decisions.
  • Keep Make It Factory alive locally. Consistent momentum beats occasional hype.
  • Move OLN and KIQ forward deliberately. One clear experiment at a time, not premature launches.
  • Protect studio time. Painting is part of how I think, not a side quest.
  • Stay selectively open. Consulting, speaking, and collaborations that are actually aligned.

Inspired by the /now page movement.