Software & AI · Independent
Corp-OS
A portable personal work OS, shipped as a Claude plugin: 23 skills that operate on a folder of markdown files.
Product work, and the systems behind it.
I build integrations, ecosystems, and lately the AI tooling I use to do the rest of the job. I teach ethics in technology to about a thousand students a year, and I run a disc golf non-profit that turned out to be the best product management training I have had.
engineer → partnerships → product
PlanHub
Senior Product Manager
Enable
Principal Product Manager
Splash → Cvent
Senior PM, Integrations
Crossbeam
Senior PM, Ecosystems
Daxko
Senior Partner Manager
Masimo
Technical Product Manager
NantHealth
Lead Software Engineer
iSirona
Software Engineer
Florida State University
Professor2020 — now · ~1,000 students a year
Course Mentor2013 — 20 · instructional staff
Coffee & Charisma
Product & design consultancy2025 — now · independent
product strategy, custom software, and brand work under one nameFlorida State UniversityProfessor · 2020 — now · ~1,000 students a yearCourse Mentor · 2013 — 20 · instructional staff
Coffee & CharismaProduct & design consultancy · 2025 — now · independent
What I have built
Tools I actually use, built in the open and published with their failure rates attached, plus the brand and event work that keeps a volunteer organization running.
Software & AI · Independent
Product OS
A company-agnostic product management skill system: a curated brain of confirmed claims, each carrying its citation.
Software & AI · Independent
Five-Phase Design System
The design system this site is built on: tokens, type, and components, contrast-checked in both themes.
Education · Florida State University
CIS3250: Ethics and Computer Science
Rebuilt FSU's computer science ethics course from the ground up in 2020, with a new textbook, and have run it for about a thousand students a year across four campuses since. SACS- and ABET-accredited.
Education · Florida State University
COP3353: Introduction to UNIX
FSU's one-credit introduction to the shell, taught since 2025 on the existing course framework, with a textbook I wrote for it because the optional ones predate most students.
Partnerships · Daxko
Daxko Partnerships Through COVID
Ran strategic, referral, revenue, and ISV partnerships for a five-product-line company through the pandemic: 6x partnership revenue in two years, a first-of-its-kind Netchex deal, and the DaxkoExchange marketplace launch.
All 59 projects59 entries · 6 categories
Where I am useful
Five things, in roughly the order they show up in a piece of work.
Product Strategy
From requirements gathering through delivery and into post-market surveillance and support.
Integrations & Ecosystems
Public APIs, marketplaces, and technology partnerships that carry revenue rather than logos.
AI Tooling
Claude plugins, skill systems, and eval harnesses. Built, measured, and published with the failures intact.
Design Systems
Tokens, components, and accessibility posture that survive contact with more than one deliverable.
Teaching
Course design and assessment scaffolded to real learning objectives, at a scale of about 1,000 students a year.
Latest posts
The test found a missing gate that every release of reading had missed
What building a personal work OS taught me about the difference between writing an instruction and enforcing one.
AIProductTooling
Substack ↗
Learning What You Need to Learn
Any journey of discovery begins with self-discovery
Substack ↗
Hurricane Michael: 6 Years Later
Last year, when I was rehabbing from ACL reconstruction, I picked up indoor cycling.
What people say
Brent is an exceptional product leader whose appetite for making an impact extends far beyond work and into his community and the classroom.
Amanda GrovesDirector of Product Marketing
Brent Gann is a once-in-a-generation talent. He is that rare professional who can cross-cut the software industry's role boundaries.
Christian SmithTechnical Architect
Despite his long list of accomplishments, Brent is humble, willing to share and give credit, and leverages his time and talents to help his teammates level up their thinking.
Harker RoslinSenior Product Manager