Career
15+
years
- Marketing Leadership
- Tech Evangelism
- Sales Strategy
- Top-to-Bottom Operations
Founder · Agentic Optimizer · AI Evangelist · Frontier Botanist
Camenker / 001
BEN
Working across
Agentic systems
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Living systems
For more than 15 years, Ben has built companies and technology. Today, his work brings agentic AI, software, and even plant breeding (everyone needs a hobby) into the same practice.
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Founder✦Agentic Optimizer✦AI Evangelist✦Software Engineer✦Web Developer✦Living Systems✦Garden-Variety Mad Scientist✦
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Profile
The throughline
Systems are where the work begins.
Ben Camenker has spent more than 15 years building technology, media, and marketing companies, both as a founder and in operating roles on platforms within the Amazon and Microsoft ecosystems.
Ben was an early adopter of AI and now designs agent-based workflows for practical use. He looks for repetitive work, disconnected tools, and underused data, then builds a cleaner way through them. His plant breeding follows a similar discipline: careful observation, selection, iteration, and field testing.
Global Team
80+
contractors across 6 continents
- 20currencies
- 13timezones
- 24/7operations
Impact
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3M
education seats represented at Microsoft
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1.2B
monthly impressions at Curse Media
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20+
Fortune-100 clients
Platform Scale
$400M
in creator revenue processed across roles
- Scoreloop
- Fortumo
- BlackBerry Gaming
- Curse
- Streamlabs
- SideQuest
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The work
A multidisciplinary practice
Ben works from strategy
through execution.
Company building, down to the wiring
Ben works across the unglamorous middle of a company: deciding what to build, choosing the tech stack, running R&D, creating the website and internal systems, structuring contracts, hiring the team, and turning delivery into a repeatable operation. That approach helped SideQuest Media scale to 80+ contractors across six continents.
- Co-Founder & COO · SideQuest Media
- Co-Founder & COO · LFG Talent
- Founder · Meluro, all-in-one software and agentic solutions
Translate the technology. Prove the use case.
Ben’s evangelism work combines technical fluency with a practical explanation of value. At MAQ Software and Microsoft, he led product adoption work across 350+ enterprise and government education accounts in the UK and BENELUX region, influencing programs representing more than three million licensed seats. His AI work follows the same pattern: show what is possible, identify where it belongs, and help people adopt it with clear expectations.
- AI adoption and executive education
- Product narrative and live demonstration
- Enterprise, education, and public-sector technology
Find the friction, then give it an agent
Ben maps how work actually moves through a company, finds the handoffs and repeated decisions that consume time, and designs agents around them. The useful version is rarely a chatbot bolted onto a process. It is a bounded system with the right data, tools, instructions, review points, and a person who remains accountable for the outcome.
- Workflow audits and opportunity mapping
- Tool-using agents, automation, and orchestration
- Human review, measurement, and iteration
Full-stack work with an operator’s bias
Ben builds websites, internal applications, data tools, CRM and CMS systems, and the connective tissue between them. His technical foundation spans JavaScript, Python, PHP, HTML/CSS, cloud compute, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and Salesforce full-stack development. He starts with the user and the operating constraint, then chooses the smallest stack that can reliably do the job.
- Web applications and product development
- CRM, CMS, analytics, and data systems
- Cloud, machine learning, and AI integration
Selective pressure, recorded outside
Through Outlaw Pepper Co. and independent growing trials, Ben uses controlled cross-pollination, landrace methods, and generations of selection to develop new cultivar candidates. He is looking for plants that do more with a shorter season: tolerate cold, use water well, resist disease, mature earlier, and still produce something worth growing.
- Cross-pollination and new cultivar development
- Landrace selection under local conditions
- Cold hardiness, drought tolerance, and disease resistance
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Selected career
Operator inside the platforms
Built where people
play, create & learn.
Ben’s career has moved between startups and some of the world’s largest technology platforms. His roles have often sat where product, operations, and revenue meet.
2020—Now
SideQuest Media
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Scaled a digital media and talent management agency to 80+ contractors across six continents, millions in annual recurring revenue, and a Top 5 position among agencies on Twitch.
Venture building / P&L / GTM / Operations
2019—2020
LFG Talent LLC
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Built repeatable revenue operations, campaign testing, commercial contracting, and the CRM and CMS foundation for a marketing-focused talent startup.
Revenue systems / Product owner / Growth
2019
Streamlabs
Business Development & Sponsorships
Opened monetization channels and professionalized enterprise sales for a creator platform processing more than $400M in creator revenue ahead of its Logitech acquisition.
Partnerships / Sponsorships / Monetization
2017—2018
MAQ Software / Microsoft
EDU Product Evangelist: Tech stack, HoloLens, Artificial Intelligence, Dev Partnerships
Led acquisition and expansion across 350+ enterprise and government education accounts in the UK and BENELUX region, influencing programs representing 3+ million licensed seats.
Product evangelism / Enterprise / Public sector
2015—2017
Curse / Twitch / Amazon
Head of Sales Development
Led revenue growth through restructuring and acquisition, built analytics and content strategies that increased departmental sales performance by 70%+, and directed campaigns reaching hundreds of millions of impressions quarterly.
Revenue leadership / Analytics / Brand programs
Earlier platforms
Loots
Fortumo
BlackBerry
Scoreloop
Technical foundation
University of Florida · Harvard University EdX Computer Science · CodeAcademy — Data Analytics, Cloud Compute, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence · Salesforce Trailhead Full-stack · AI/LLM systems · Python, JavaScript & web development
System / 01
Software
BUILD
Working software, built for the people who use it.
Enter technical dossier
System / 02
Biology
BREED
When evolution needs a little nudge.
Enter field dossier
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Cold-climate breeding
Plant hybridization
Pushing growing zones
past their old limits.
Ben breeds new varieties for climates where familiar options are scarce. The goal is practical: move the growing zone north, improve productivity during short seasons, and give growers more to work with.
Outlaw Pepper Co.
Est. 2018
Outlaw Pepper Co. gives Ben a place to run long-term breeding trials, select for useful traits, and learn what survives outside the greenhouse.
Push zones
Select plants that can survive and produce beyond their usual growing range.
Increase yield
Select for reliable production within a shorter growing window.
Expand choice
Develop varieties that cold-climate growers cannot readily find elsewhere.
Working question
05 / 06
What could this system do better?
That might mean an AI workflow that cuts hours of repetitive work, software that makes a messy process easier to manage, a business with clearer operating systems, or the introduction of cold hardy genes, drought tolerance, or disease resistance to a million-year-old gene pool. Ben prefers results that can be measured in day-to-day use.
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Connect
Partnerships · Ventures · Speaking
Looking for someone
focused on growth?
Ben is based in Huntsville, Alabama. He welcomes conversations about agentic AI, software, new ventures, and living systems.
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Ben Camenker
Founder / Agentic Optimizer
AI Evangelist / Garden-Variety Mad Scientist
AI Evangelist / Garden-Variety Mad Scientist