Adam Alpert

About

AI-native startup founder and product leader building agentic systems for marketplaces and talent matching; co-founder & CEO of PANGEA.APP with production AI agents, data/automation pipelines, and marketplace growth/monetization. Experienced in modern data stacks (dbt, BigQuery/Snowflake/Supabase, Airbyte/Hightouch, Customer.io) and building internal admin tooling and human-in-the-loop Slack workflows; also builds voice-first and on-device LLM personal projects through MIT Media Lab collaborations and agent orchestration/semantic memory work.

Experience

• Co-Founder & CEO · PANGEA.APP05-01-2017

  • Built production AI agents for job matching and management, including a PM Agent that manages Linear tasks and company knowledge base from audio transcripts, and a client intake call co-pilot for automated brief generation. • Rebuilt client and talent onboarding funnels with automated data enrichment, lead scoring, and personalized outreach sequences. • Built entire cold outbound email infrastructure reaching 100k+ potential client leads using Smartlead, Instantly, Apollo, and La Growth Machine. • Built entire internal admin panel to manage leads, talent, jobs, invoices, contracts, agent configuration, and cron job scheduling. • Built interactive Slack bots for human-in-the-loop actioning across matching, invoicing, and talent review workflows. • Coded 100+ data models in SQL/dbt and built 50+ custom data pipelines. Built 200+ automations using JavaScript and n8n. • Expanded talent network to 75k candidates across 155 countries, $4.5M in transaction volume. Restructured pricing, growing gross margin from 8% to 22%; achieved profitability May 2025. • Raised $3.3M across four rounds from top VCs and angels including Y Combinator. Managed team of 12 and $800k annual budget.

• Head of Product · Reprally02-01-2025 – 08-01-2025

  • Joined Series A startup as AI consultant, promoted to Head of Product within two months. • Led company-wide AI agent hackathon using n8n to drive adoption of AI agents and automation across the org. • Migrated to modern data stack including dbt, reverse ETL tooling (Airbyte, Hightouch), Airtable, and Customer.io. • Led product transition to managed marketplace matching 6k stores with 300 field sales reps; increased store retention from 20% to 60%.

• Entrepreneur in Residence · RI Innovation Hub

  • Hosted first startup Rhode Island Demo Day, featuring 20 early-stage startups and 300 attendees including VC funds. Led to a $50k investment.

• Co-Founder & Managing Partner · NYC Founders Club06-01-2024

  • Grew to 5,000 members, $100k annual revenue, and partnerships with JP Morgan, Ramp, and Stripe. Built full tech stack in Next.js/Supabase.

• Founder · Cambridge Founders Club09-01-2025

  • 400+ MIT/Harvard founders. Host curated dinners with the strongest builders in Cambridge. Partnered with Pear VC and JP Morgan.

• Angel Investor · (First angel investment in an MIT-founded company)2026

  • First angel investment in an MIT-founded company (2026).

Education

• MIT Sloan School of ManagementCandidate for MBA, MBA (Candidate) — Dean’s Fellowship award
• Brown UniversityBachelor of Arts, History

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