I can give Sammy problems ranging from trivial to unclear-if-solvable and he gets them done. The hypercompetent assistant of your dreams.

—Emmett Shear, co-founder and former CEO of Twitch, interim CEO of OpenAI

Hi, I’m Sammy. I solve weird problems for a living. I’m currently available for work as a chief of staff, executive assistant and fixer. You can schedule a call with me here.

Patrick McKenzie has described working with me in more detail. Here are some problems I solve for clients like him:

• “My organization is bottlenecked by my time and energy. I need to drastically increase my own productivity.”
• “I have ~70 things I need to do, but I can’t spare the cycles to track everything in writing, so crucial tasks keep getting dropped.”
• “I keep coming across projects that need doing, but I’m overcommitted as it is, and I don’t have anyone competent and agentic who can reliably complete weird, open-ended projects.”
• “I need somebody to find and manage contractors for misc. projects, but I don’t have the bandwidth myself.”

My typical client runs a tech or finance business, but feel free to reach out even if that’s not you.

Some past work:

• “I need you to find buyers for my mid-six-figure entertainment company.”
• “Here’s some info on my biotech startup—find us a physical location that we can use to scale up manufacturing.”
• “Fly to NYC to investigate the physical reality of a news story, then figure out our next steps.”

I also ran a group house when I was 16, which certainly implies something about my risk tolerance and operational competence.

Testimonials:

I tend to overcommit and let myself get prioritized by my inbox rather than by my strategic goals. Sammy is the external executive function that I sometimes lack. We’re still early in our working relationship, but I gave him a hard, underscoped trial project that had been painfully unsolved for a year, and he achieved total success in three weeks.

–Patrick McKenzie (patio11) (and he also wrote the aforementioned thread)

Sammy is the fastest, most organized CoS I’ve ever worked with. His ability to deal with ambiguous instructions in complex situations is incredibly impressive. Within a week of working together, he was able to restart our hiring pipeline and accelerate several other projects - to glowing reviews from my executive team. I would work with him again in a heartbeat.

–Randeep Singh, CEO of AON3D

If you’re interested, schedule a call with me, and we’ll chat about your business and whether we might be a mutual fit, and then do a work trial. While I’m often in the Bay Area, I’m open to both in-person and remote work.