Blake Miner.

I’ve spent more than a decade building affiliate and partner programs, recruiting the creators and publishers who carry an offer and negotiating terms that make it worth their time.

I care about the economics of a partnership and whether the people involved follow through. Neither is obvious on the first call.

I build and manage AI systems across research, analysis, and business operations. I direct that work daily, check the output, and change how the systems run when they get it wrong.

Alongside that, I’m in the partner meetings, negotiating agreements and seeing the work through after the deal is signed. I stay involved in both the systems and the relationships the business depends on.

• Who I work with

  The best work I’ve done came from people whose judgment I trusted and who did what they said. I’ve learned to weigh that more heavily than how good an opportunity sounds on the first call.

• How the business makes money

  I want to understand where the revenue actually comes from and what it costs to keep earning it. Simpler businesses tend to hold up better, so I’d rather add complexity only when it clearly pays for itself.

• Control over my time

  I’d rather build around the life I want than postpone it, so where I live and how I spend my week are part of the terms for me, not a reward somewhere down the road.

I borrow from the flâneur’s habit of moving through unfamiliar places and paying attention. Professionally, that means spending time across industries and departments rather than staying inside one specialty. An idea from software turns out to be useful in finance. A conversation with customer support changes how I approach a partnership. I look for those connections, then test whether they hold up in practice.