You've spent years inside an industry — trades, insurance, senior care, energy — and you know exactly which broken workflow deserves software. You don't need to code.
What has Dan been up to?
The Dan Golden Field Guide.
I built and co-ran a digital marketing agency for 15 years. Now I build things and use those skills to grow them — software, content sites, and a few real businesses, mostly under Pandotic. Some I founded, some I invested in, some I advise, and some are finished chapters. This is the honest inventory: a resume in the loosest sense, sorted by how I'm actually involved rather than by category. Also had a few jobs along the way Consumer GuidePerformicsGoogle — more about those days on LinkedIn.
40Ventures
19Live
16On the workbench
3Exited
The Pandotic mark
Runs on Pandotic — my software company's platform. One backend, one admin, one set of rails.
LiveBuilding
Live vs. Building
Live means you can use it today. Building is real work in progress — several pre-announcement.
The families
Grouped by what they have in common, not stage — company, home & trades, family, capital, agency years.
Dotted lines mean "sits underneath"
CoverScore and TradeAtlas are umbrellas with brands beneath them — parent and child, not a partnership.
Founder · Investor · Exited
How I'm involved matters more
The lenses sort by my actual relationship — what I run, what I fund, what's closed.
Collaborators welcome
See something interesting?
Partner on one of these, invest alongside me, or bring your own idea into the portfolio. Pandotic runs a founder program for entrepreneurs who want to build on our rails instead of from scratch.
EverythingThe whole pile40OperatingWhere my hours actually go15PandoticMy software company24InvestmentsMoney in — some back out8ExitedDone, sold, or handed off5
Exited. Chapters that closed well. Still proud of every one of them.
Energy & PropertyTech
1The home as an asset: protection, energy, HVAC, the paperwork of owning a house — and the trades who do the work.
Personal & Family
1Tools I built because my own family needed them. CoverScore is the umbrella — one risk score across your life, with the people and products brands beneath it — plus caregiving, memory-keeping, and a couple of money-finding bets I backed.
Build with Pandotic
Who we're looking for, and how this works.
Pandotic is the software company underneath a lot of what's above — shared rails, one admin, real distribution. We'd rather hand those rails to a great operator than build every idea ourselves.
The co-founders & collaborators we want
You can ship. You'd rather start on a working platform with auth, admin, and content already solved than spend six months rebuilding plumbing.
You can make a category rank and hold attention. Several of these started as content and grew into products.
You want exposure to a portfolio rather than a single bet, or you've got distribution that would make one of these go faster.
Ways to engage
- 01License the platform
Run your own product on Pandotic's rails. You keep your brand and your equity; we provide the infrastructure.
- 02Revenue share
We build and operate, you bring the audience or the domain expertise. Upside is split, no cash up front.
- 03Founder program
Bring an idea, get the platform, the playbooks, and a co-founder. You run it; we capitalize and support it.
- 04Joint venture
Two companies, one new thing. Shared ownership on something neither of us would build alone.
- 05Advisory & consulting
Sometimes you just need the 22 years of digital marketing scar tissue. That's available too.