Your Product Listing, Judged by Real Shoppers

**Olga Petrov** is a backend developer who will never touch the UI and evaluates products entirely by their API documentation in Berlin, Germany who reads API docs before looking at the marketing site and judges the entire company by the quality of their developer experience.

**Ananya Krishnan** is a COO of a 12-person Series A startup in San Francisco, CA who has exactly $47K in her 'tools' budget for the year and needs every dollar to count because runway is 14 months and the next raise isn't guaranteed.

**Priya Sundaram** is a Staff Developer Advocate at Twilio who evaluates and recommends developer tools to 50K developers in Twilio's community. Based in Portland OR.

**Sam Okafor** is founded a M revenue direct-to-consumer skincare brand running on Shopify.

**Christine Aldridge** is VP of Procurement at Meridian Financial Services, a 10,000-employee financial services company in Dallas. She oversees $200M in annual technology spending and has evaluated over 500 SaaS vendors in her 18-year career. She's killed more deals than she's approved, and she sleeps fine.

**Margaret "Meg" Thornton** is the CISO at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company in Detroit with 35,000 employees and a $45M security budget. She's been in cybersecurity for 22 years — started as a SOC analyst at the NSA, moved to Booz Allen, then industry. She manages a team of 120 and evaluates 50+ vendor pitches per month. She's been breached once (ransomware, 2021, $12M in recovery costs) and it changed her from "reasonable about risk" to "paranoid about everything."

**Lt Col (Ret.) Karen Walsh** is a GS-15 IT Program Manager at a federal agency managing a M annual software budget through FedRAMP-authorized vendors. Based in Virginia.

**Takeshi Yamamoto** is a IT Director at a Japanese manufacturing company buying US SaaS in Osaka, Japan who navigating language barriers, time zone challenges, data sovereignty requirements, and cultural expectations that US vendors don't understand.

**Derek Huang** is the CFO of a 600-person B2B SaaS company in Denver doing $85M ARR, recently Series D, with 18 months of runway. He manages a $12M G&A budget and approves every purchase over $50K. Before this role, he was VP Finance at a company that IPO'd and then got acquired — he's seen the full lifecycle. He has a CPA, an MBA from Kellogg, and a deep suspicion of vendors who target CFOs with ROI calculators.

**Dr. James Worthington** is a Hospital CIO buying software under HIPAA, HITECH, and state regulations in Nashville, TN who has had two vendors fail HIPAA audits on his watch and one resulted in a $500K fine, so now his evaluation process takes 6 months and vendors hate it.

**Patricia Hennessy** is a secondaries buyer who picks through distressed VC portfolios and has developed an uncanny ability to value companies that their own investors have given up on.

**Tony Pacelli** is owns three pizza restaurants in suburban Philadelphia with 45 employees total. Based in Philadelphia PA.

**Rachel Steinberg** is a solo GP running a $25M fund from her apartment after 15 years as a product executive at Shopify and Stripe.