Jason
August
The idea is yours · Let's make it real
You're holding something real: an asset, a venture, a deal that deserves to happen. Turning it into something capital and partners can move on is where the right help changes everything.
The idea is the easy part. The work is making it financeable, credible, and built.
Jason works on real-world assets and ventures across capital, real estate, adaptive reuse, hospitality, and technology, taking what should work and turning it into something capital, partners, and operators can act on.
On the founding team at Build-A-Bear Workshop, he helped grow the company from a startup concept to a global public brand. That shaped how he thinks about customer experience, emotional connection, systems, and building things people genuinely care about.
What you get: clear thinking, strategic relationships, aligned capital, and momentum, and, more often than not, a Shepsky named Alphabet somewhere in the room.
You need the capital to come together
Commercial and project finance, lender strategy, and capital structures built so the deal pencils and partners say yes.
You have a property with real potential
Complex real estate, adaptive reuse, mixed-use, and repositioning: turning the asset into place-based value people invest in.
You want a place people return to
Hospitality, guest experience, sustainability, and operating models that connect real estate to durable, lasting demand.
You want to be more trusted
AI visibility, confidence signals, data strategy, verification, and privacy: the systems that earn confidence and prove it.
You're building at a new frontier
Brain health, wellness, and human performance: institutional partnerships and responsible ways to bring new technology to market.
Your idea becomes financeable
Good ideas get the structures that capital, partners, and operators can understand and trust.
Trust comes first
Reputation, verification, aligned incentives, and clear communication carry the work forward.
The real world gets its due
Places, buildings, communities, and operations are treated as what they are: real, and worth getting right.
Unlikely systems connect
The value is often between categories: finance and hospitality, real estate and technology, health and institutions.