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
Six families of work, one pile. Pandotic is the software company — anything marked with its icon runs on that platform. Everything else is an investment, a board seat, or a closed chapter.
Pandotic
2My software company. AI-native tools for problems that deserve better software — and the platform the whole fleet runs on.
IIEP Analyzer
AppBuilding
IEP Analyzer
AppUpload an IEP, get it back in plain English — what it covers, what's missing, what to push for. The parent-facing cousin to SPEED.
Founder & Operatorin progress
PPromptKit
AppBuilding
PromptKit
AppSharpens your AI prompts right where you already work — Chrome extension plus a Raycast surface.
Founder & Operatorrebrand incoming
Energy & PropertyTech
3The home as an asset: protection, energy, HVAC, the paperwork of owning a house — and the trades who do the work.
OOnDeck
AppBuilding
OnDeck
AppThe contractor-to-contractor referral network — Trade Cards, reciprocity tracking, and a referral ledger. It records and reminds; it never touches the money.
Founder & Operatorin build
TTrade Card
AppBuilding
Trade Card
AppA baseball-card-style verified identity for a trade pro — one card shown to homeowners and peers alike.
Founder & Operatorcredential spine
HHomeDoc
AppLive
HomeDoc
AppAn operating manual for your house — track maintenance, store documents, stay on top of everything a home needs.
Founder & Operatorhomedoc.us
Personal & Family
6Tools 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.
CBuilding
CaseFinders
AppSurfaces class-action settlements you're actually owed money from and helps you claim them — no lawyer-speak required.
Investorcasefinders.us
CBuilding
CashFinders
AppTracks down money that's quietly yours — unclaimed funds, forgotten refunds, rebates you never knew to claim.
Investorcashfinders.us
ALive
AskAround
AppAsk your neighborhood anything — community Q&A for the local recommendations you'd normally text five friends to get.
Founder & Operatoraskaround.ai
CCoverScore Family
AppBuilding
CoverScore Family
AppThe care planner and family operating system that sits on the CoverScore spine — shared plans, documents and next steps for the people who depend on you. Grew out of HelpMyBoomer.
Co-founderplanned
TThankBetter
AppLive
ThankBetter
AppMakes it easy to send real thank-you videos for gifts and registries — gratitude that doesn't feel like a chore.
Co-founderthankbetter.com
TTicketStash
AppBuilding
TicketStash
AppRebuilds your entire concert history with AI — every show you've ever been to, collected in one place.
Founder & Operatorticketstash.net
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.