Fractional Leader | Advisor | Extra Hand

Helping teams turn ideas into outcomes

Whether you need an advisor, an extra hand, or a part time executive I can help. I embed directly with teams and founders to build unbeatable strategies, increase velocity, and fundraise with intention.

Grand Rapids, Michigan · Remote
Kyle Saari

Three ways I help teams move faster

Succeeding with Startups

Fundraising with intention, creating an unbeatable strategy, or leading and building teams. I help you sharpen your story and build the roadmap investors want to see.

Product-Market Fit

Customer discovery, prioritization frameworks, and product strategy. I help you figure out what to build, for whom, and in what order.

Go-to-Market Strategy

Positioning, channel identification, and launch planning. I help you take what you've built and get it into the hands of the right customers.

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

I bring 15+ years across product, operations, strategy, and engineering into the room with your founding team. I'm not a consultant who sends a deck and disappears — I embed with you and do the work.

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 product 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. That's where the operational depth comes from.

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

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!

Explore the Garden

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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