Tina Bean: A Strategic Growth Leader Evolving Into the AI Era
Explore the career of Tina Bean, a visionary GTM and partnerships leader whose work spans SaaS/DaaS, enterprise data intelligence, and the rapidly emerging world of applied AI. After co-founding KickFire and guiding it to a successful acquisition, Tina continued shaping the industry through enterprise integrations, revenue acceleration, and strategic ecosystem development at Foundry.
Over the past year, Tina has expanded her impact into the AI and LLM landscape—designing full-stack AI applications, building automation pipelines, mastering multi-agent “vibe-coding” workflows, and advising early-stage founders on GTM, integration strategy, and product-market fit for AI-native products. Her ability to translate complex AI capabilities into business outcomes, combined with her deep background in enterprise partnerships, positions her uniquely at the intersection of AI innovation and market execution.
From startup acceleration to enterprise adoption, Tina’s journey reflects a rare blend of creativity, technical fluency, and strategic leadership—leaving a lasting mark on every market she enters.

by Tina Bean

Core Competencies
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Category-Shaping Vision
See around corners. Spot market gaps.
Turn ambiguous AI trends into clear product and GTM direction.
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Partnership Multiplier Effect
Turn a single integration into an ecosystem.
Transform collaborations into scalable revenue engines.
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Technical GTM Architect
Bridge engineering, product, founders, and customers — ensuring AI capabilities map cleanly to real-world workflows.
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Revenue Force-Multiplier
Win deals others can’t. Expand accounts others stall in. Deliver measurable, repeatable commercial lift.
KickFire: SMB →Mid Market → Enterprise
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June 2005 - 2016,
Co-founded VisiStat, Inc. (dba KickFire), a SaaS/DaaS analytics company.
  • Built the GTM engine from zero: positioning, pricing, messaging, and sales motion.
  • Grew revenue through new market entry and early category creation in IP intelligence.
  • Built and led the sales team while scaling the company from SMB into Mid-Market.
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2016 - 2021
Served as VP of Strategic Business Development, driving category leadership for KickFire’s DaaS/API platform.
  • Forged strategic partnerships with ABM leaders (Rollworks, G2, Metadata, Bombora) that established KickFire as the industry standard IP-to-company dataset.
  • Led partnership sales cycles and worked closely with Customer Success to secure renewals, expansions, and multi-year agreements.
  • Positioned KickFire technology as the backbone of real-time account identification across the MarTech ecosystem.
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2020 - 2021
Led KickFire’s acquisition process from start to finish.
  • Worked closely with the company’s investment bankers throughout due diligence, pitch cycles, and negotiations.
  • Directed all buyer conversations, showcasing product value, market defensibility, and growth runway.
  • Secured the successful acquisition by Foundry (IDG).
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2024 – Present: AI Product, GTM, and Workflow Innovation
Expanded into AI development and LLM-powered product building, applying technical workflow fluency to real business use cases.
  • Built EntryCart, a full-stack SaaS using AI-assisted development: backend logic, subscription billing, user onboarding flows, and public-facing experience.
  • Developed multi-agent “vibe-coding” workflows using Windsurf.ai, Manus.ai, MCP, and advanced GPT orchestration.
  • Designed automation engines for financial data cleanup: categorization logic, cron-based scripts, and clean UI workflows.
  • Advised founders on GTM strategy, partner ecosystems, integration scoping, and AI workflow mapping to accelerate early product-market fit.
  • Built and scaled an AI art business leveraging prompt engineering, iterative creative modeling, and optimized digital product fulfillment.
Strengths Expanded for AI Era
Product Ideation & Technical Translation
Ideated new products that generated millions in revenue, including a high-speed data lake tagging system and API integrations into Google and Adobe Analytics. Today, that same product intuition extends into AI—translating complex LLM capabilities into practical workflows, automation systems, and new product opportunities.
Revenue Growth & GTM Strategy
Consistently surpassed enterprise sales targets, often outperforming the entire sales team’s collective results. This foundation now powers an
AI-native GTM approach—combining enterprise selling expertise with technical fluency in AI workflows, enabling companies to position, differentiate, and scale adoption faster.
Acquisition Leadership & Executive Execution
Played a pivotal role in positioning KickFire for acquisition, shaping the narrative, managing buyer conversations, and collaborating closely with investment bankers. This same strategic clarity now informs AI founders you advise—helping them articulate product value, craft integration strategies, and accelerate early product-market fit.
AI Workflow Innovation &
Vibe-Coding
Expanded beyond traditional SaaS to build AI-driven applications, multi-agent workflows, and automation engines using tools like Windsurf.ai, Manus.ai, MCP, and GPT orchestration. This unique hybrid of business strategy + AI workflow design allows you to scope integrations, architect user flows, and bridge engineers with GTM effortlessly.
Exiting Professional Sabbatical
Applied Learning & Technical Upskilling
Immersed myself in the rapidly evolving AI landscape—studying LLMs, multi-agent systems, MCP, and AI-assisted development tools. Built fluency in translating complex AI capabilities into real product workflows.
AI Product Development & Workflow Engineering
Put new skills into practice by building full-stack applications, automated financial workflows, and AI-driven systems using Windsurf.ai, Manus.ai, GPT orchestration, and automation frameworks. Designed and shipped production-ready SaaS features, backend logic, and user flows.
Strategic Career Reinvention for the AI Era
Used this period to reposition my career around AI GTM, startup partnerships, and technical solution design—aligning my background in enterprise growth with hands-on AI product capabilities. Preparing to bring this hybrid expertise to an innovative AI company.
Ready for the Next Challenge
Strategic AI Insight
Blending deep GTM experience with modern AI fluency to identify high-impact opportunities, shape product direction, and accelerate adoption in fast-moving markets.
AI-Enabled Innovation
Hands-on experience designing LLM workflows, AI-assisted applications, and automation systems. Able to translate emerging AI capabilities into real products customers use.
Ecosystem & Partnership Leadership
Proven ability to build and scale partnerships with enterprise platforms, startups, and technical teams—now applied to AI-native integrations, solution partners, and developer ecosystems.
Adaptive, Technical Growth Mindset
Evolving continuously with the AI landscape through active learning, vibe-coding, and hands-on experimentation. Comfortable operating at the intersection of product, engineering, and GTM.
Ready to unlock your next phase of growth with a GTM force multiplier?
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