Proof of work,
not promises.
I'm Trace Cohen — 3x founder, 65+ angel investments, and a builder who treats AI agents like an engineering team. This page is not a resume. Everything below is live, in production, and clickable — built and operated by one person directing autonomous systems.
$ one person · ai leverage · production output of a team
Autonomous systems that ship while I sleep
Most people use AI as a chat box. I run it as infrastructure: a fleet of scheduled agents that research, write, build, cross-link, QA, and deploy to production every single day. My job is architecture, taste, and the feedback loops — the machines handle the reps. This is the actual production schedule:
Researches a trending public-data topic, builds a full interactive dashboard, runs a 4-skill design audit, and ships it to production. Autonomously.
Audits the newest posts for orphaned content and wires contextual cross-links between posts, tools, and dashboards.
Writes 10 data-driven articles with metadata, JSON-LD schema, FAQs, and OG images — then commits, pushes, and deploys to production.
Detects failed morning runs and re-executes them — the system repairs itself before I notice anything broke.
Pulls Google Search Console data, flags low-CTR and dropping pages, and queues them for rewrite. Search performance feeds back into the content engine.
Pre-commit hooks block banned color palettes and design violations across every repo. OG images regenerate at build time. Taste, enforced by machine.
OUTPUT: 695+ articles, 45+ interactive tools, and daily deploys — operated solo, supervised, never hand-written one keystroke at a time.
Don't read about it — click it
A selection from 45+ shipped projects. Every link goes to a live production deployment with real users and real search traffic. Impressions are from Google Search Console, last 28 days.
Value Add VC
A free VC intelligence platform: fund benchmarking, IPO tracking, unicorn data, SaaS multiples. The site you are on right now.
Tech IPO Tracker
Every tech company going public — valuations, multiples, and S-1 data, continuously updated by an automated refresh pipeline.
AI Valuations
How the top private AI companies are priced — tracked weekly with automated data updates.
Tech Layoffs Tracker
Real-time layoffs data by company, sector, and year — 2020 through today.
South Florida Tech
A programmatic directory of 779 real South Florida businesses and 155 tech entities — built and deployed in days, not months.
SpaceX IPO Dashboard
Financials, valuation history, and IPO scenarios for the most anticipated listing in tech.
Knicks Vault
A full franchise analytics dashboard — every Knicks season, player, and stat since 1999.
VC Fund Performance
TVPI, DPI, and IRR benchmarks by vintage year — the data LPs actually use.
SPV Calculator
Models fee stacking and carry impact across SPV structures — used by real angels and syndicate leads.
Distribution is built, not bought
Zero paid acquisition. The growth engine is programmatic SEO with a closed feedback loop — Search Console data flows back into the content pipeline weekly, so the system learns what to write next.
Over 1 million monthly impressions via Google Search Console. Happy to screen-share the live dashboard.
Core pages rank on page one for competitive VC and finance queries — RVI fund data, SPV calculators, layoffs data.
Ten structured, schema-complete, internally-linked articles published daily — compounding for months.
Built it, then made it 10x faster
Shipping fast is table one. Shipping fast and then going back to make it fast, secure, and maintainable is the part most people skip. Here's what a single optimization pass looked like:
2.2 MB → 100 KB via pagination. ISR reads dropped from 300% overage to under free tier.
538 copy-pasted directories → 1 dynamic [slug] route. 7,000 lines of boilerplate eliminated.
Full GSC audit, data-driven rewrites front-loading numbers and comparisons. Batch 1 CTR up 14% aggregate, top pages +560%.
CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, nosniff — went from zero security headers to full suite in one commit.
Moved posts.ts server-side, optimized Recharts barrel imports, deferred below-fold sections.
38 copy-pasted iframe pages → 1 shared component. Changing sandbox attrs is now a one-line edit.
Also shipped: DOMPurify XSS fix · iframe sandboxing · error/404/loading pages · 11 cannibalistic content clusters merged · 59 orphan images cleaned · 8 model-dated posts de-versioned
What I bring on day one
The honest pitch: I'm not a career software engineer — I'm an operator and investor who figured out how to get team-scale output from AI systems, with the founder judgment to know what's worth building and the VC pattern-matching to know what the market wants. Whatever role this is for — growth, product, platform, AI ops, investing — this page is what one person can ship. Imagine it pointed at your roadmap.
Hiring? Skip the screening call.
You've already seen the work product — that's the interview. If you want someone who ships like this inside your company, the conversation is one email away.
valueaddvc.com/work · updated by the same pipelines it describes