Jody Roberts

I work in AI and data. Day job: Senior Director of Product Management at ZoomInfo, running Core Data — company, person, and web data assets across hundreds of millions of records. Focus is integrating data science, ML, and AI into a data-as-a-product approach. Side project: I co-founded Product Hacker with Cam Fortin. We build AI-native tools for operators and small teams. OnlyData Club is an agent-queryable business graph (24,414 enriched entities across Boise, Raleigh, and Charlotte). Rally is an AI-native CRM with 90+ MCP tools and paying customers (CollabFund, McFerrin RE, Evanston Capital, Quantified AI, Dravik, NetWise Band). Our enrichment pipeline runs on local Ollama — Gemma 4 E4B on a MacBook Pro, $0 inference cost. Most recent ships: the OnlyData MCP server now does OAuth 2.1 with real interactive consent (the auth flow Anthropic requires for Claude marketplace submissions). Enriched 6,488 Charlotte-metro businesses end-to-end on local hardware in a week. Building the iOS app for OnlyData in SwiftUI. Wrote a Telegram-triggered prototype orchestrator that takes "find 50 commercial cleaners with AR scores" and returns an enriched Rally workspace. Through my consulting practice, Hornet's Nest IO (active since 2019), I've shipped consumer apps to the iOS App Store and Google Play. TuneTracker.ai (Spotify analytics + AI-driven recommendations, on the App Store). HiveStride.fit (voice-first AI fitness, iOS + Android). TrackDose.app (OIT food allergy management — originally built for my own family). HornetHive.ai (multi-agent execution on CrewAI). HiveForge.dev (production-ready SaaS template). Career background: ~10 years in product. Sr. Director PM at Dun & Bradstreet's Eyeota division before ZoomInfo, leading a global team of 11 across PM, BI, and PMO. Sr. PM at Bombora before that. Lead PM and Sales Engineering at ShareThis, where I drove the platform from $5MM to $25MM. Started in product at Dell EMC managing a $2B yearly business. UNC Charlotte BSBA in MIS; Stanford Continuing Studies for JavaScript. Day-to-day stack: Claude Code Max as primary IDE, Cursor for some edits, GitHub Copilot, Anthropic API for production agents, OpenAI Vision for the OCR work, Ollama + Gemma 4 for local inference, CrewAI and LangChain for multi-agent flows, RAG pipelines with pgvector, MCP server development across the OnlyData / Rally / HiveForge stack, FastAPI + Express + Next.js + Supabase, plus Swift for the iOS apps. How I work: if I know the solution I'll share it. If I don't I'll learn it. If I can't I'll leverage the right resources to find it.