Acquire software products; grow software companies
At Layer One Capital, we BUY SaaS products in need of a new vision, team, and strategy — THEN BUILD them into category leaders.
My Companies
Exclusion Screening
Healthcare compliance platform. Implementing a new strategic vision, rebuild the tech stack, and taking market share once again.
exclusionscreening.com→Plug In Useful
SEO tooling for Shopify Merchants. Turned around declicing recurring revenue into 2x growth in 18 months. Now innovating on new product lines and doubling down on growth.
pluginuseful.com→Points of View
June 2026
9 Billion Tokens Later
I shipped a year of planned dev work with Claude Code for under $600. Here's why that price is a subsidy — and why you should build durable assets now.
April 2026
SaaSpocalypse vs. SaaSquatch
Wall Street erased $2 trillion of software market cap on AI fear. The fundamentals say otherwise. The smart money is buying.
April 2026
You Bought a Company from a Boomer. Now What?
There's an entire industry built around getting you to the closing table. Almost nobody is talking about what happens next.
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Occasional essays on acquiring and building software companies.