Daniel is an Atlanta-based entrepreneur, a Christian, a husband, and the tired but grateful father of one-year-old twins. He holds an MBA from Yale, where he first entered the world of small business acquisitions. He spent two years as a buyer searching locally in Atlanta, advancing two deals through due diligence before both ultimately fell through. Rather than walking away, he channeled that experience into his first company, Search Assistant, a deal aggregation tool for small business buyers – a valuable chapter, but one that he moved on from as he experienced how AI was reshaping small business and entrepreneurship. That journey, from buyer to builder, from AI-adjacent to fully AI-native, brought him here today with an updated vision to solve the macro problems facing small business M&A.