Fractional Product Leader | Advisor | Extra Hand

Helping teams turn ideas into outcomes

I work with mission-driven startups and small businesses to build great products and happy, high-performing, AI-native teams.

Reach out if you're building an impact startup or transforming your business with AI. I've done the operations and engineering grunt work at a $10B CPG company, launched new SaaS products at a growth-stage drone inspection startup, and co-founded an AI startup designing new materials for nuclear fusion reactors.

Grand Rapids, Michigan · Remote
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Kyle Saari
HOW CAN I HELP YOU

Founders and Business Leaders

Startups & Products

I help teams get their idea off the ground, build products that drive outcomes, and raise venture capital.

As a Startup Founder and Product Leader I have seen what zero looks like, I can help you bring clarity to the chaos.

Founding Startups

AI-Native Teams

I help leaders build AI-Native teams with agency and optimism, drive adoption and implementation, and demonstrate ROI.

MIT found that 95% of Generative AI investments will show zero return, BCG found AI strategic clarity is the #1 driver of success, and humans are repeatedly identified as the critical lever for getting value from AI.

Leading Human Centered AI Adoption

Scale It

Great products don't always lead to great companies.

Managed growth requires smart capital, unbeatable strategy, and world-class teams.

I help teams operate at scale.

How to operate at scale

I have worked with teams of all sizes from pre-revenue and growth stage startups to global enterprises. I specialize in working with B2B SaaS and deep tech founders, especially in climate tech and physical AI.

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ABOUT

I've built, founded, operated,
coded, pitched, and shipped.

Most recently, I co-founded Materia Chemistries where we built AI to accelerate the discovery of new materials, one of the hardest and most important problems in science. Along the way we were accepted into UC Berkeley SkyDeck Pad-13 and the Climate Collective AI Accelerators, assembled a team of world-class scientists, engineers, and advisors, and worked with industry-leading startups and enterprises driving the most impactful climate and energy solutions in nuclear fusion and direct air capture.

Before that, I was Senior Product Manager at SkySpecs, a growth-stage renewable energy SaaS company, where I led the overhaul of their flagship SaaS Module and then built predictive maintenance algorithms for early wind turbine blade failure detection.

And before that, 12 years at Amway spanning software engineering, internal audit, information security, data science, and global strategy.

MBA — Western Michigan University BS CIS — Ferris State University
Kyle Saari at Crusoe Office Kyle Saari speaking at SF Climate Week

Speaking at SF Climate Week 2025

KNOWLEDGE GARDEN

Explore my thinking.

Here you will find many of the thoughts, concepts, and tools I have developed during my journey. I don't create this for anyone but myself, but it is something I have wanted to share for a long time in case anyone finds it interesting or useful!

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LET'S WORK TOGETHER

Let's figure out
your next move.

It usually starts with a conversation. No pitch, no pressure. We'll talk about where you are, where you're trying to go, and whether I can help you get there faster.

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kyle@fractionalkyle.com
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KNOWLEDGE GARDEN — PRIVATE NOTE

This note is not part of Kyle's published work. His knowledge garden is large — most of it stays private, shared only in conversation. If you want to explore this idea further, reach out or schedule time.

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