Ryon Everett

About Ryon

ALL ABOUT RYON

INFORMATION AND BACKGROUND

ASSET: RYON EVERETT, HEAD OF PRODUCT

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STATUS: ACTIVE

Summary:

• Asset's background includes outfits in product, launch and growth strategy;
• Expertly adaptable in high-intensity and fast-moving situations;
• Highly skilled at optimizing adoption via user experience;
• Embedded in disruptor start-up ecosystem for 10+yrs;
• Responsible for launching and scaling several global executions;
• Survived multiple Kobayashi Maru attempts;
• Weakness: exploit asset's affinity for locales featuring emerging technologies;
• Whereabouts: (Currently) Canada, North America;
• Proceed with extreme caution: Asset is responsive and will engage directly if approached

Background

TENACIOUS, AFFABLE, CURIOUS

• R. Everett is a Head of Product with a background in launching brands, product lines, and growing businesses. As Head of Product at CloudenineAI he is responsible for creating ODE, the world's first developer toolset for an associative context engine.
• His consultancy outfit Volpsis, was a partner of choice of several prominent real estate, private equity, and professional services firms. He is frequently called on to find growth and go-to-market opportunities, particularly in the form of new products and lines of business.
• His studies in linguistics and game design lend to his iterative and user-focused approach to developing offers. With deep attention paid to research and market opportunity, his "observe and test-early" style has helped organizations stay positioned ahead of market trends in material science, consumer packaged goods, public policy, and technology.

-He continues to explore new technologies and research new ways to drive meaningful interactions.

An artifically intelligent tinkerer

• Deeply creative, history of developing innovations and carving new business avenues
• User-experience obsessed: proficient with modern toolchains / resources
• Well versed in the AI-Driven, AI-Consuming product ecosystems and enterprise deployment realities
• Hand-wrote a lot of lines of code before LLMs
• Stays current, stays curious, stays ready
• Friendly, generally speaking

Work

ODE

PRODUCT - DEV ENGINE

Summary

STATUS: RESEARCH PREVIEW at rel-ode.com

An associative toolset to build flexible and capable data-apps and agent workflows. Associative Context Engine. Ran product 0-1 including MCP surface, API, SDK. Inception to post-launch.

Features

• Augmented intelligence: Inherent data patterns surface without inference
• Auto-associate deterministically: Contextual relationships built from data structure itself
• Fully virtual and self-managed: Build intelligence easily without modifying source systems
• Content-blind operations: Anonymize values while maintaining contextual links
• Total auditability: Trace data fully to its source, even during agentic ops.
• Zero-shot agentic: Optimized tools with low-foot print for easy integration.

Systems

• Data-driven product development
• Custom data-types
• MCP & OpenAPI
• Gitlab CI/CD
• Automated fuzz-testing, benchmarking, auditing suite
• Automated deployment, ux testing,
• Posthog, Vercel, Fly, Sentry, Docker
• All major inference providers as consumers and builders.
• 3rd Party integrations

VOLPSIS

PRODUCT & GROWTH STRATEGY

Summary

STATUS: ACTIVE

Volpsis has been providing white-label product 0-1, launch, and growth strategy services since Ryon founded it in 2018. From product ideation and adoption optimization to international roll-out strategy Volpsis is a partner of choice for both SMB and Fortune 500 scaled organizations worldwide.

With experitse in SaaS/PaaS Technology, Private Equity, CPG, Real Estate Management, and e-commerce. the results of Volpsis's involvement can be experienced as products on shelves in over 120 countries, as processes still actively used to grow revenue at orgs with 80B+ AUM, and several founder exits and acquisitions.

Highlights

• Leading asset management firm (80B+ AUM): Volpsis positioning framework used as internal standard for evaluating value-creation opportunity in acquisition targets
• Leading private equity organization (12B+ AUM): Volpis-directed fund positioning and go-to-market strategy led to increased contributions then oversubscription of fund.
• Leading commercial insurance technology platform (90M ARR): Volpsis-directed launch #1 ranked for speed, simplicity, and efficiency in North America
• Leading home goods manufacturer (80M ARR): Volpsis-directed repositioning, launching entirely new offer as material supplier on track to double business revenue.
• Arts and culture museum (SMB): over 80% YoY revenue growth online
• Physiotherapy health services (SMB): scaled profitably from single to five locations within 12 months

BOOGII

PRODUCT-LUXURY CANDLES

Summary

STATUS: COMPLETED (2022)

Boogii was a company active from 2021-2022 that came from a desired to test scaled-down strategies that better cater to small-and-medium businesses. These product & go-to-market strategies were previously validated at scale strategies with Volpsis's larger clients.

The goal of the project was to take a small business from 0-1 with a single product line to a profitable and sustainable business within 12 months.

After selling through multiple rounds of inventory as well as several events and retail/wholesale opportunities, the project ended with its final "Smells like Spring Event", bringing the 10 month co-operative effort to a close. It had validated the strategies for SMB and was profitable throughout.

Highlights from the project

• 12 highly-differentiated and customized fragrances combined from a fragrance library of over 130 ingredients
• 5 candle events, including corporate, public, and private
• 16 rounds of user testing, surveys, control groups,
• Sold out all inventory each limited production batch (100s)
• Deeply researched positioning for product launch and growth
• Total product, packaging, and e-commerce experience design
• Fragrance, material, burn, and safety testing process definition
• Logistics, shipping, fulfillment and wholesale management
• Self-funded & profitable throughout

Personal Projects

• VOX GARBLER: A curio, sampling and mixing some of video gaming's cheesiest voice lines into a spirit-box tool for producing outlandish, yet familiar text-to-speech. A passion project, anchored in both learning and entertainment.
• GARBLER MINES: Gamified data annotation for video game audio.
• FLASHBACK SAMPLER: A little rolling buffer audio sampler used to limit test knowledge of memory systems and also making ad hoc live-sampling to DAW more fun. Getting rewritten in ZIG.
• THE GREAT BLEBIS: Bahh. Interactive Fiction based on a story prompt. You can play it right here in the window in browser. (Remember browser games?)