AI-Native Product Builder · Platform Integrations PM · Minneapolis

Hi, I'm Ben Siegel.

I ship AI-assisted products and integration platforms.

Solo founder of ChoreStar (120+ users, built with LLM-assisted workflows) and the product manager who owns the platform integrations portfolio at Practifi, the Salesforce-native CRM for financial advisors. 15 years in technology, 7 in financial services, 5+ in product-shaped work. I came up through engineering, so I still read the Apex, write the SOQL, and debug the OAuth flow myself.

13 partner integrations 2× Salesforce Certified Minneapolis, MN
Ben Siegel

My career is the career of someone who couldn't stay in one lane. I graduated from the Art Institutes in 2011 with a web design degree and went straight to an agency floor, writing HTML and CSS for the Target.com relaunch. Three years at Thomson Reuters, a contract at Ameriprise, a full-stack bootcamp at Prime Digital, a stint at Digital River — and somewhere in there I picked up Salesforce.

That's what shifted things. Working on nCino at U.S. Bank meant sitting next to product managers and actually seeing what the job was: translate messy reality into a roadmap, keep engineering unblocked, keep clients calm. I got good at it by being the person who could have both conversations — the one with the architect and the one with the VP. Two years at West Monroe sharpened the consulting side; three years at Practifi moved me from BA to growth consultant to platform engineer to PM.

On the side, I built ChoreStar — a gamified chore-tracking SaaS for families — as a solo founder using LLM-assisted workflows with Claude, Codex, Cursor, and large language models across research, product thinking, development, and iteration. 120+ users and its first paying subscriber, real retention data, a Product Hunt launch, and a product I actually use with my own kids.

The work I care about.

01

Product strategy & roadmapping

Outcome-oriented roadmaps for enterprise SaaS — the kind that hold up in front of both the engineering team and the C-suite.

02

API & integration architecture

Designing how platforms talk to each other — authentication, data models, partner-ready environments, the lifecycle from intake to sign-off.

03

Partner ecosystem management

Tracking partner roadmaps, aligning release timelines, and keeping delivery approaches consistent across a portfolio of integrations.

04

Data-driven prioritization

Growth experiments, usage analytics, and retention data — picking the next bet based on what the numbers actually say.

05

AI-native product building

Shipping real products with LLM-assisted workflows — from research and scoping through development, launch, and iteration. Proven solo with ChoreStar; applicable to zero-to-one and AI-first product teams.

Fifteen years of shipping.

A selection of the things I'm proud of — the integration platform work I do now, a side project that ships on its own, Salesforce implementations that changed how banks lend, and the websites that trained me to ship.

Founder · 2024 — Present

ChoreStar

A gamified chore-tracking SaaS for families. Built solo from zero to 120+ users and its first paying subscriber — market research, feature scoping, UX, full-stack development, Product Hunt launch, and growth. Behavioral incentives for kids, point systems, reward tracking, family dashboards. Shipped using LLM-assisted workflows with Claude, Codex, Cursor, and large language models.

I own the integration layer too: Stripe and PayPal webhooks handling payment and subscription events, Supabase real-time data sync, and a production AI feature on Claude with JSON-schema structured output, Zod validation, a rule-based fallback, per-user rate limiting, and an eval suite that runs against the live model.

Solo founderFull-stackReactSupabaseWebhooksReal-time syncStripePayPalLLM-assisted dev
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Practifi · 2026 — Present

Enterprise Householding Sync

A large enterprise wealth client needed portfolio hierarchies reflected in the CRM — trusts, multi-entity households, percentage ownership. The first spec called for roughly 18 mapped fields. Validating it against the client's actual records before anyone wrote code collapsed it to one field plus one configuration record, and about 700 households sync on it daily. I then generalized the client-specific need into a linked-only sync mode, so it became a product capability instead of a one-off.

It's an ETL pipeline moving live client custodial data, which means the API security requirements are a design input, not a review step at the end.

ETLData modelingAPI securityAddeparSalesforce
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Practifi · 2026 — Present

Partner Integration Portfolio

13 partner integrations connecting Practifi to the wealth-management ecosystem — Addepar, Schwab, Orion, Black Diamond, Tamarac, eMoney, Fidelity — 4 of them built and maintained in-house. I own the lifecycle from intake through release sign-off: aligning partner release timelines against client migration windows, tailoring partner-built Salesforce apps to our data model, and maintaining the API and configuration documentation partners and clients build against.

I'm also the single voice for integrations in company-wide release forums, accountable for release readiness and the roadmap tradeoffs that go to the futures committee. I lead 2 engineers end to end on the roadmap.

Partner ecosystemAPI lifecycleRelease managementTechnical docs
Practifi · 2026 — Present

Integration Hub

Standing up an integration meant hunting through auth providers, credentials, and custom settings scattered across Salesforce setup. It was tribal knowledge. I scoped and shipped Phase 1 as a single guided configuration experience, which made setup self-service and gave the later phases something to build on.

Phase 1 shipped deliberately narrow. Trying to solve every integration's configuration at once would have shipped nothing.

Platform enablementZero-to-oneConfig UXSalesforce
Practifi · 2026 — Present

Microsoft 365 Integration

An in-house integration on the Microsoft Graph API that delivers the client-facing email and calendar sync advisors use every day, currently being extended to SharePoint document sync.

Owning it in-house instead of consuming a vendor connector means owning the failure modes vendors hide — token expiry, throttling, partial sync, reconciliation after a failed batch. That's the part I'd want to talk about in an interview.

Microsoft Graph APIOAuthData syncIn-house build
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Practifi · 2025 — 2026

Sales Demo System & GTM Platform

Built the demo system so prospects could trial the platform and Sales could run end-to-end demos from one environment — event setup, mock integration data, process flows. Owned and prioritized the GTM platform roadmap alongside it.

Then used platform usage data and customer feedback to split the demo and client-template orgs. I'd assumed one shared environment was a cost saving; the usage data showed it was a tax on both.

GTM platformDemo engineeringUsage analyticsRoadmap
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Practifi · 2024 — 2025

Growth Experiments & Client Onboarding

Ran an A/B experimentation program across growth experiments that lifted product engagement 25%, coordinating Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Sales through Agile to prototype, test, and launch. Instrumenting before shipping is cheaper than arguing about the results afterward.

Built a repeatable onboarding plan and template for new clients that compressed onboarding from 4–6 weeks to 1–2. Most of that delay was rework from unvalidated assumptions, not execution speed. Shipped production features in Apex and Lightning Web Components alongside it.

A/B experimentationOnboardingApexLWCAgile
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Practifi · 2023 — 2024

Client Implementations & Discovery

Translated stakeholder requirements into build-ready user stories and acceptance criteria, running discovery workshops and user interviews to close the gaps before engineering picked anything up. Managed backlog grooming and sprint planning, sequencing engineering work against client-facing commitments.

This is the part of the arc that taught me the job. The expensive failure is a spec that reads correctly and doesn't survive contact with the client's actual data.

DiscoveryUser storiesBacklogSalesforce configAgile
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West Monroe · 2021 — 2023

nCino & Financial Services Cloud Implementations

Built and configured Sales Cloud, Financial Services Cloud, nCino, and Experience Cloud portals for financial-services clients. Ran requirements gathering and current-state/future-state workshops, weighing feasibility, user experience, and business value in the solution design. Managed delivery across several concurrent engagements — roadmaps, sprint planning, release schedules — on Agile/Scrum teams.

This is the middle of the nCino arc. I built on it as a developer at U.S. Bank, configured it as a consultant here, and now own it as an ISV integration at Practifi. Very few Salesforce people have all three.

nCinoFinancial Services CloudExperience CloudConsultingAgile
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U.S. Bank · 2019 — 2021

Business Loan Transformation

Salesforce Developer on the nCino implementation that rebuilt U.S. Bank's commercial lending platform. Ninety-plus percent heads-down coding — Apex, automation, data model work — plus the translation layer between bank employees and the nCino product team.

SalesforcenCinoApexLightning
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U.S. Bank · 2020 — 2021

Customer Portal

Customer-facing engagement layer on Salesforce Community Cloud — loan status, document requests, the lifecycle work that turned a back-office tool into a self-service experience for borrowers.

Community CloudApexLightningJavaScript
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Ameriprise Financial · 2015 — 2016

Ameriprise.com & Auto/Home Insurance

Contract front-end work across Ameriprise's public sites — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery inside an agile workflow. Brand consistency across properties and the pages that carried the insurance line.

HTML/CSSJavaScriptjQueryAgile
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OLSON Agency · 2011 — 2012

Target.com Relaunch

First gig out of school, on a team of contractors rebuilding Target.com. Where I learned what production velocity looks like — and picked up the mobile campaign work that followed.

HTML/CSSMultiple CMSJIRA
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Thomson Reuters · 2012 — 2015

Business Law Center

Three years as a web developer at Thomson Reuters, writing the HTML, SASS, and JavaScript for complex legal-research applications. Lead front-end on the first iteration of the Business Law Center.

HTML/CSSSASSJavaScriptjQuery

Dev → Consultant → PM.

The shortest version: three agencies, two big banks, a bootcamp, a consultancy, a product company, and a side business.

Associate Product Manager, Integrations
PractifiMar 2026 — Present

Own a portfolio of 13 partner integrations connecting Practifi to the wealth-management ecosystem, 4 of them built in-house, plus the API and configuration surface partners build against. Lead 2 engineers end to end on the integrations roadmap and shipped Phase 1 of the Integration Hub, which pulled scattered setup into one guided configuration experience.

Go-To-Market Platform Engineer
PractifiJun 2025 — Mar 2026

Configured and troubleshot the Practifi CRM for the GTM team and ran a prioritized improvement roadmap for platform efficiency.

Salesforce Business Growth Consultant
PractifiNov 2024 — Jun 2025

Designed and shipped growth experiments that lifted engagement 25%. Built production features in Lightning Web Components.

Founder
ChoreStarJan 2024 — Present

Side project turned SaaS — 120+ users and its first paying subscriber. Built and launched with Claude, Codex, Cursor, LLM-assisted workflows, and a Product Hunt launch; iterating on subscriber feedback, usage, and retention.

Functional Business Analyst
PractifiMay 2023 — Nov 2024

Scoping, requirements, and Salesforce configuration for client implementations.

Salesforce / nCino Functional Business Analyst
West MonroeMay 2021 — May 2023

Led Salesforce and nCino implementations for financial clients, translating product needs into requirements, configuration decisions, and delivery plans.

Salesforce Developer
U.S. BankApr 2019 — Apr 2021

Business Loan Transformation team — Apex, nCino, automation. Heads-down engineering.

Software Engineer
Digital RiverOct 2017 — Apr 2019

E-commerce portal development and maintenance for Digital River's professional services clients.

Contractor — Front-End
Ameriprise FinancialMay 2015 — Nov 2016

Site development across Ameriprise properties. Agile delivery, brand consistency, content updates at scale.

Web Developer
Thomson ReutersJun 2012 — May 2015

Front-end on complex web apps. Custom CSS systems, JS markup, daily standups with cross-team delivery.

Developer / Designer
OLSON AgencyAug 2011 — Jun 2012

Target.com relaunch and mobile campaigns. Boston Scientific CardioTeach iPad app visual design.

AI-native product builder and integrations PM.

My work sits at the intersection of AI-native building, platform integrations, Salesforce, fintech SaaS, and API products — the technical end of product management, where the roadmap and the data model are the same conversation.

In practice that means roadmap ownership, partner intake, OAuth and API workflows, ETL and data synchronization, Salesforce and nCino delivery, LLM-assisted product development, data-model decisions, release sign-off, and cross-functional delivery. Based in Minneapolis, working remote.

What's in the stack.

Product & Strategy

  • Roadmapping
  • API design
  • Partner ecosystems
  • Integration lifecycle
  • Experimentation
  • Analytics
  • Stakeholder comms
  • Technical writing

Technical

  • Salesforce (Apex, LWC, SOQL)
  • nCino
  • React
  • Supabase
  • SQL
  • REST & SOAP APIs
  • Webhooks
  • ETL & data transformation
  • Real-time & batch sync
  • API security
  • OAuth
  • JavaScript
  • HTML / CSS
  • Git

Growth & Distribution

  • Consumer SaaS growth
  • Multi-channel marketing
  • Product Hunt launch
  • Subscriber acquisition
  • Retention & analytics

Certifications

Salesforce Certified Administrator badge
Salesforce Certified Administrator SCA
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Salesforce Certified Associate Foundational credential

Education

Prime Digital Academy Full Stack Software Engineering · 2017
Art Institutes International MN B.S., Web Design & Interactive Media · 2007 – 2011

Let's talk.

Always glad to talk integrations, partner platforms, API and data-exchange design, Salesforce product work, or building indie SaaS with LLM-assisted workflows. Fastest paths are email or LinkedIn.