Ryan Dacus

I build the systems that find revenue — ingestion pipelines, performance analytics, forecast engines, and the tooling that acts on what they surface. Twenty years carrying the number is why they are built around the operator’s P&L.

Simpsonville, SC

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How I work

Instrument it, find what is underperforming, prove why, then ship the thing that fixes it.

The work is a loop, and I have run every stage of it. Instrument the revenue so the data exists at all — ingestion, schema, the joins nobody wants to own. Monitor it so movement is visible while it is still cheap to act on. Pinpoint what is underperforming and rank it by what it actually costs. Prove why, with a method that survives being argued with. Then build the thing that closes the gap, rather than filing a request for it. Everything on this site is a stage of that loop, built against a real operation while it was running.

What makes the analysis worth trusting is where it was done. These are not exercises on a public dataset. The recovery engine was rebuilt bottom-up after I caught my own first version overstating by 2.5× — sized off revenue rather than units × landed cost — before it ever reached a client. The forecast engine reports a distribution rather than a point, because a single confident number understates risk in both directions. The QBR dashboard applies Bayesian shrinkage because an account that activated one of two times is not a 50% account. Every one of those is a decision about honesty first and technique second.

The commercial record underneath it is the reason the models are built the way they are. Twenty years in B2B revenue: founding sales hire who built a commercial function from zero and led a team of six to quota, then a net-new channel revenue stream built from nothing, with millions in annual contract value sourced and closed across it and more than 80% of that self-sourced across my last three roles. That is not a separate career from this one. It is why the unit economics in every model here are the operator’s, why the forecasts get shown to people who have to commit to them, and why I know which number a business actually acts on.

What I want next is a seat where both halves count — revenue operations, performance and data analysis, or a commercial role with real ownership of the systems behind it. I have never needed a category to be handed to me before I could be useful in it, and the shelf below is the evidence: most of it is a domain I had to learn quickly, instrument, and then act in.

Career trace — live, from the work data

Two tracks, twenty years, one of them starting empty

The top line is the commercial job and it never breaks. The bottom line is one dot per system on the shelf, read out of the same file that renders the work page. Pick a chapter.

Capability ledger

Every claim says what kind of proof it has

A skills list nobody can check is decoration. Commercial work is proven by the record; software is proven by something you can open, and those lines cite it. A claim of “shipped” that cites no Live or Built project is demoted in code, not by good intentions.

Analysis and forecasting

Data systems and pipelines

Applied AI

  • Multi-model pipeline orchestrationProven by something on this site you can open

  • Model-tier selection against costProven by something on this site you can open

    Haiku for classification, Sonnet for editorial reasoning. Paying Sonnet rates for tagging is a design error, not a rounding error.

  • Scheduled autonomous researchProven by something on this site you can open

  • Constrained generation over trusted dataProven by something on this site you can open

    The Role Lens on the home page is the smallest example: the model may reorder and annotate, it may not assert a fact that is not already in lib/projects.ts.

Revenue operations and reporting

Commercial record

  • Self-sourced pipeline origination — cold, not inheritedProven by something on this site you can open

    Over 80% of closed revenue across my last three roles was self-sourced — not routed from marketing, not handed over by an SDR queue, not a purchased lead list. The systems cited here are the ones I built to do it at volume without adding headcount.

  • Full-cycle B2B new business, sourcing through closeDone for real in the roles below — no repo to point at

    Evidenced by the record, not by a repo

    Twenty years of it, most recently carrying a quarterly number for channel-sourced ACV — cold outbound through multi-stakeholder negotiation and co-sell close. Evidenced by the record below, not by a repo.

  • Building a revenue function from zeroDone for real in the roles below — no repo to point at

    Evidenced by the record, not by a repo

    Twice. Founding sales hire at an agency, then a net-new channel revenue stream at a commerce SaaS portfolio.

  • Hiring, ramping, coaching, and performance managementDone for real in the roles below — no repo to point at

    Evidenced by the record, not by a repo

    Led a team of six to consistent quota attainment through structured coaching and call reviews, including the onboarding curriculum they ramped on.

  • Pricing, contract structure, and deal deskDone for real in the roles below — no repo to point at

    Evidenced by the record, not by a repo

    Built the hybrid retainer-plus-performance agency model and the exception path governing it; negotiated channel terms and performance expectations across three product lines.

Partnerships, channel, and alliances

  • Channel program design and account recruitmentProven by something on this site you can open

  • Co-sell motions and account-conflict resolutionDone for real in the roles below — no repo to point at

    Evidenced by the record, not by a repo

    Joint end-customer opportunities worked alongside channel-side sellers across three product lines, with clear ownership where both sides sell into the same market.

Marketplace and financial domain

Selected results

Numbers I can defend in a room

The commercial figures are carried by the role that produced them. The rest are read from the project that produced them rather than retyped — including the one where the finding was that my own first estimate was wrong.

From the roles

Millions
In ACV sourced and closed across the career

Twenty years · Seller Interactive · Voadera · Threecolts

80%+
Of closed revenue self-sourced, last three roles

Seller Interactive · Voadera · Threecolts

6+
Representatives hired, ramped, and led to quota

Seller Interactive

2
Revenue functions built from zero

Seller Interactive · Threecolts

From the work

2.5× overstated
Correction to initial recovery estimate
Amazon Recovery & Profitability Suite
+41%
P10–P90 spread widening vs. independence
Sales ACV Forecast Engine
~$70K
Annualised late-fee exposure identified
Carrier & Logistics Spend Analysis
−1.30 (R² 0.76)
Rank elasticity of revenue
Amazon Recovery & Profitability Suite

What I'm looking for

Specific enough to disqualify a bad fit

Being vague here wastes both of our time. If three of these four columns are wrong for your role, it is probably not the role.

Titles

  • Revenue Operations — Manager or Director
  • Performance, business, or revenue analyst · analytics lead
  • Solutions consulting · sales engineering · GTM engineering
  • Also a fit: business development, partnerships, or sales leadership

Companies

  • B2B SaaS, commerce, retail, and logistics software
  • Anywhere the revenue data exists but nobody owns the joins
  • AI tooling where the buyer asks technical questions
  • Where marketplace domain knowledge pays off on day one

Arrangement

  • Remote, or hybrid in the Greenville, SC metro
  • Open to travel for accounts and events
  • Currently remote and productive that way

What I need

  • Access to the data, and a real decision hanging on it
  • Permission to build the answer, not just file the request
  • A number attached to the work — I do better work with one

Résumé

The same career, in plain form

For anyone who wants to skim rather than click. This section is what prints — no PDF is checked in, because a PDF starts disagreeing with the site the first time either one is edited.

Multiple industries · IndependentB2B sales and independent e-commerce operations

2005 – 2021
  • Progressive business-to-business sales and sales management roles across multiple industries, building the foundation of a twenty-year revenue career.
  • Concurrently sourced, listed, and scaled independent product businesses on eBay and Amazon FBA — operator experience that shaped a sales career built around the customer’s P&L rather than the vendor’s pitch.

Jungle ScoutSales Executive

Sep 2021 – Feb 2022

Amazon seller analytics and sourcing SaaS platform

  • Sold the full SaaS product suite to Amazon sellers, agencies, and consumer brands, running full-cycle from prospecting through demo, negotiation, and close.
  • Operated a high-velocity, demo-led SaaS cycle across SMB and mid-market seller segments inside a mature revenue stack and reporting cadence.
  • Built territory strategy and outbound approach for underpenetrated agency and brand segments.
  • Agency accounts required a multi-client, ecosystem-style relationship model rather than single-account selling — the first version of the channel motion I would later build from zero.

Seller InteractiveSales Team Lead / Senior Sales Executive

Feb 2022 – Mar 2025

Hybrid Amazon brand growth agency — founding sales hire

  • Founding sales hire at a hybrid Amazon brand growth agency; built the commercial function from zero — ICP definition, outbound motion, service packaging, and pricing model — and progressed to Senior Sales Executive and Sales Team Lead across three years of category-leading growth.
  • Personally closed $1M+ in annual contract value at peak production, selling multi-service brand growth engagements to Amazon sellers and consumer brands.
  • Self-sourced the large majority of that production — over 80% — as a founding hire with no marketing-generated pipeline, no SDR team, and no inherited book to work.
  • Hired, ramped, and led a team of 6+ sales representatives to consistent quota attainment through structured coaching, call reviews, and performance management.
  • Built the outbound playbook, discovery and qualification frameworks, and pricing strategy the entire team sold on.
  • Owned departmental forecasting, pipeline hygiene, and CRM operations — administering Monday.com as the department’s single source of truth — giving leadership a reliable monthly and quarterly revenue picture.
  • Structured the hybrid retainer-plus-performance commercial model and the deal-desk practice governing commercial exceptions.
  • Designed onboarding and ramp programs for new sales hires, compressing time to first close, and developed new market segments and service lines as the agency expanded its footprint.

VoaderaSales & Business Development Manager

Mar 2025 – Jan 2026

Amazon FBA wholesale and resale operator

  • Sourced, negotiated, and closed brand and supplier agreements for an Amazon FBA wholesale and resale operation, owning terms, margin structure, and performance expectations.
  • Originated over 80% of that volume myself through cold outbound and direct market mapping rather than inbound enquiry or a purchased lead list.
  • Evaluated every account on margin profile, sell-through velocity, and inventory risk before commitment.
  • Architected the business development CRM in Monday.com — a large lead and prospect database integrated with the company ERP to automate pipeline, BDR outreach status, opportunity scoring, and estimated ACV.
  • Built a pipeline forecasting engine on top of it — Monte Carlo simulation with Bayesian updating as deals moved — replacing gut-feel estimates with a distribution carrying a real confidence range.
  • Systematized supplier sourcing and evaluation into a repeatable, criteria-driven screening process.
  • Owned origination end to end: market mapping, prospect identification, outreach, terms negotiation, and account onboarding.

Shipped, and on this site: Business Development CRM & Forecasting Engine

ThreecoltsPartnerships Manager

Jan 2026 – Present

E-commerce SaaS portfolio — MarginPro, CedCommerce, Seller DirectoriesRemote — Simpsonville, SC

  • Carry a quarterly revenue number for channel-sourced ACV and net-new agreements, running full-cycle from cold outbound through multi-stakeholder negotiation and co-sell close.
  • Self-source over 80% of that pipeline — the program launched with no partner list, no inbound applications, and no lead-generation function behind it, so every foundational agreement began as an account I identified and approached cold.
  • Opened a net-new channel revenue stream from zero — defined the ICP, segmentation model, and value proposition across the MarginPro, CedCommerce, and Seller Directories product lines.
  • Sourced and closed the program’s foundational agency agreements and advanced an active pipeline behind them; serve as primary relationship owner, managing multiple high-visibility organisations simultaneously.
  • Run co-sell motions alongside channel-side sellers, jointly working end-customer opportunities across three product lines while maintaining clear account ownership where both sides work the same market.
  • Negotiate terms, commercial structures, and performance expectations; own the full lifecycle post-signature through enablement, onboarding, activation, and ongoing expansion.
  • Built the program’s reporting infrastructure — a React and Supabase QBR dashboard applying Bayesian updating and OLS regression — replacing a manual quarterly reporting process with live channel-sourced ACV trends and forward forecasts for leadership.
  • Built a prospecting command center consolidating Salesforce, Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Dripify into one workflow, scaling outbound capacity without added headcount.
  • Authored a 1P market strategy report identifying enterprise Vendor Central agencies as an underpenetrated segment; findings redirected go-to-market targeting.
  • Run a standing competitive intelligence program tracking 20 competitors and seven platform surfaces weekly, mapped to product line so findings drive positioning and promotional decisions.
  • Authored the enablement deck, onboarding path, and a master multi-channel outreach playbook covering email, LinkedIn, text, and phone with segment-specific sequencing.

Shipped, and on this site: Sales ACV Forecast Engine · Amazon Recovery & Profitability Suite · QBR Dashboard & Revenue Ops Command Center · Weekly Growth Brief Engine · Channel Enablement Portal · Prospecting Command Center · Revenue Pipeline CRM · FBA Deal Analyzer Pro · 3T Recovery Wizard · Sales Enablement System

BeaconPath Holdings · Marketplace BetaFounder — BeaconPath Holdings and Marketplace Beta

2024 – Present · concurrent

Acquisition holding company · e-commerce intelligence platformSimpsonville, SC

  • BeaconPath Holdings, LLC (2024 – Present): founded an acquisition holding company screening cash-flowing operating businesses — $350K–$550K SDE, $1.2M–$2M+ revenue — across logistics, trucking, manufacturing, and services.
  • Built the diligence toolset end to end: a relational deal pipeline in Notion and Airtable tracking targets by stage, financials, and thesis fit, feeding a Python and Streamlit engine performing SDE normalisation, valuation multiple analysis, working capital modelling, and SBA 7(a) debt-service modelling.
  • Conduct diligence directly — financial statement analysis, customer concentration risk, and capital structure — including FedEx ISP route operations and domestic manufacturing candidates.
  • Marketplace Beta (2025 – Present): founded and operate an e-commerce intelligence publication and operator toolset for Amazon and Walmart agency operators, designed, built, and shipped solo.
  • Runs a production multi-model AI pipeline with model tier matched to task and cost — Claude Haiku for classification and triage, Claude Sonnet for editorial reasoning, DALL·E 3 for imagery — on Next.js, Supabase, and Vercel with scheduled jobs and a subscriber email layer.

Shipped, and on this site: Marketplace Beta · Article & Topic Classifier · PriceScope · AgencyForecast · Universal Business Acquisition Analyzer · Acquisition Deal Pipeline & Target Database · Stellar Advisor Platform · LeadPrompter

Education and continued development

  • Bachelor of Science, Business Management — August 2005

    Clemson University, Clemson, SC

  • Graduate-level coursework, Electrical Engineering

    Continued development — Battery state-of-charge algorithm development, with prerequisite coursework in electrical fundamentals and battery chemistry across consumer, power tool, and automotive cell types.

  • Applied acoustics — self-directed

    Continued development — Frequency response and target-curve fitting, parametric equalisation, transducer and enclosure characteristics, and frequency-band gain as it relates to speech intelligibility.

  • Acquisition finance and SMB M&A

    Continued development — ETA and SBA 7(a) structuring, financial statement and valuation analysis. Applied directly in BeaconPath Holdings’ screening engine.

Open to a conversation.

If any of the above lines up with what you are hiring for, the fastest way to test it is to send me the job description — the Role Lens on the work page will reorder the whole shelf against it before we ever speak.