I love research, data, and finance. Not as abstractions — as tools that change how people make decisions. Since 2008 I've built websites, CMS platforms, and publisher tools for hundreds of clients. Every single one had the same blind spot: they had all the data in the world, but couldn't tell who was ready to buy and who was just browsing. They gave the same discount to their most loyal customer and a stranger from Google. The same experience for everyone, because the tools that could tell the difference cost six figures and required a data team.
Putting everything I know about data and behavioral patterns into a tool that helps people actually engage with their audience — you can wake me up for that. When cookie-based tracking finally broke, I stopped waiting for someone else to build it.
Frankly is open source because I think you should be able to read every line of code that touches your visitors' data. It's independent because I don't want investors deciding what to do with that data. And it's honest because this industry has been lying to website owners for too long.