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Technical founder · Forward deployed · New York

Daniel Fitzpatrick

I've sold enterprise tech on Wall Street, put software on 20+ Air Force bases, and built a ticket platform that AI assistants call for answers.

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upfront.tickets
UPFRONT app showing live prices from seven sites on one stadium seat map
UPFRONT app comparing one seat's price across marketplaces
Live9 marketplaces, one seat map
AI connectorin the Claude directory
3D45 stadiums
BuiltUPFRONT Tickets · Technical co-founder · 2024 – now
  • 9ticket marketplaces compared live
  • 100%on a blind AI accuracy test
  • 3platforms shipped: web, iOS, Android
See UPFRONT ↓ DeployedRHINO + Apollo · U.S. Air Force · 2020 – 25
  • 20+bases running RHINO
  • 44,000labor hours a year, Air Force projection
  • $25Min government contracts
See RHINO ↓ SoldNetApp · Wall Street · 2016 – 20
  • $150M+in deals as technical lead
  • $9Mnew business I sourced
  • 4dying deals rescued
See NetApp ↓
01 · Technical co-founder · 2024 – now

UPFRONT Tickets

UPFRONT is Google Flights for event tickets: every site's price for the same seat, fees included, on one map. Then it goes further, with a 3D view from every section and an MCP connector that lets AI assistants find tickets for you. I'm the technical co-founder, and I built the whole thing.

Visit the live site ↗
The product

Every site's price, on one seat map

Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek and six more, lined up seat for seat with fees included. Live on web and Android; iOS is in App Store review.

UPFRONT app with each section's price on the arena map
Sec 211 · Row 19200 Level · Madison Square Garden
3D view from Section 211 at Madison Square Garden3D view from your seat
$331each incl. fees
2% cheaper than similar seats
We found 5 prices
UUPFRONT$331
TTickPick$344
TTicketmaster$352
GGametime$359
Buy on UPFRONT · $331 each →
3D seat views

See the seat before you buy it

I built 3D models of 45 venues, so every section shows the real view from the seat instead of a stock photo.

3D view from the seat, rendered by UPFRONT3D view
UPFRONT
TickPick
Ticketmaster
How the 3D works

Every seat in the building, placed one by one

This is Yankee Stadium assembling from my venue model: 44,673 seats, row by row, then a flight to the view from one section.

AI connector · MCP · try it

Ask an AI assistant for tickets. It calls UPFRONT.

I built and shipped a public MCP server, so assistants like Claude can search events and compare live prices instead of guessing. It's listed in the Claude connector directory and the MCP Registry.

Event
Seats
I want
Proof it works

Does the connector make AI more accurate?

I asked AI assistants real ticket questions, like the one below, three different ways. Separate AI graders then scored every answer against the true prices, without knowing which setup wrote it.

“What's the cheapest pair of tickets to tonight's game, with fees?”
The hard part

Nine sites, nine names for the same game

Every site labels the same event, venue and seat differently. I built the engine that recognises they're the same thing, so prices line up seat for seat.

Trail Blazers at Knickssite A
NYK v POR · MSGsite B
New York Knicks vs. Portlandsite C
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One event · Madison Square Garden · Sec 211, Row 19
How I built it

I built the whole thing

I took an earlier version of the site and rebuilt it into today's product, end to end: the data engine, the web app, the iOS and Android apps and the MCP connector, on React, Django, Postgres, Redis and Swift. More than half of the work was done alongside AI coding agents.

640+ commits. I wrote the product.
Early traction

AI is already sending customers

About 5,000 organic visits a month, and the first paid orders.

5% of visits come from ChatGPT
02 · Product lead · U.S. Air Force · 2020 – 25

RHINO

I brought Air Force vehicle inspections from a 50-year-old paper form to a live picture of the whole fleet. I started as the developer who wrote the first app, then led the product from the first interviews on base to rollout at 20+ bases.

U.S. Air ForceAerial port squadrons20+ bases2023 AFIMSC Innovation Rodeo finalist
Two airmen filling in a paper inspection form on the hood of a vehicle
Before · pen and paper on the hood
A Vehicle Control Officer gestures at RHINO on a wall screen above the whiteboard it replaced
The switch · a Vehicle Control Officer shows RHINO above the whiteboard it replaced
An inspector tapping through a RHINO inspection on a rugged tablet under a vehicle hood
Now · the inspection on a tablet
01 · For 50 years

A paper form, a clipboard and a filing cabinet

Every vehicle, every day, by hand. Problems were written down and filed. Nobody saw them until something broke.

Then it went on the pile. Decades of them at every base, and nobody was ever going to read one.

02 · The switch · try it

The same inspection, on a phone

Tick the checks and watch Truck 07 respond. Every tap is recorded and reaches the base and the fleet the moment it happens. Then submit, and watch Truck 07 roll through the check below.

Truck 07Daily checkRHINO
Inspection filedTruck 07 is on its way ↓
InspectorBase VCOFleet
Live record · Truck 070 / 4 checked
Truck 07 is rolling out to the flightline ↓
  • Tires
  • Lights
  • Fluids
  • Brakes

Waiting for the first check…

03 · Now, across the Air Force

Every vehicle checked before it rolls

Thousands of Air Force vehicles a day pass through RHINO, from pickups to K-loaders. Each one is either verified good to go, or its problem is reported before it turns into a breakdown.

3,912vehicles checked today
41problems caught early
20+bases online

● Truck 07 verified · good to go

Contract value
$25M

in government contracts.

Adoption
20+

bases, from first pilot to standard practice.

Time back
44,000

labor hours a year the Air Force projected RHINO could save.

Read the Air Force article ↗
How it got adopted

I worked on base with the people who use it

I sat with Vehicle Control Officials and inspectors and turned what they told me into inspections each base could customise, fleet dashboards, and reports in the formats the Air Force already required. I was the main technical contact for operators, base leadership and engineering, and ran the training and pilots at each base.

Three airmen on a flightline checking a phone beside a row of cargo loaders
Airmen running RHINO on the flightline
A large yellow airfield fire truck driving out of the open nose of a cargo aircraft
The fleet runs from pickups to airfield fire trucks
03 · Product owner · U.S. Air Force · 2020 – 25

Apollo

Think UPS tracking, built for military cargo. Apollo follows every pallet from the warehouse floor onto the aircraft, and tells the port how much it can move and where the bottleneck is. I owned it from the first version through pilot to 15+ bases.

The whole network, live

Thousands of pallets on the move, every one accounted for

Each dot is a pallet in transit between ports. Close a port and watch Apollo divert its cargo: click any port on the map.

2,418pallets in motion
63aircraft airborne
1,106delivered today
Close a port

All ports open

Pick one and follow it
PLT-2231Received

463L pallet · 4,180 lb · Priority 1 · 6 pieces

    JB CHARLESTONRAMSTEIN AB
    Estimated arrivalTomorrow · 06:40Z

    Ramstein AB · Bay 4

    Speed
    35%

    faster cargo processing.

    Reach
    15+

    bases at full adoption.

    More than tracking

    It finds the bottleneck

    Apollo works out how many pallets a port can move per hour and which piece of equipment is holding it back.

    04 · Sales engineer · Financial services · 2016 – 20

    NetApp

    Technical lead on enterprise data-platform deals for Wall Street firms, including quantitative trading and large-scale analytics. I ran discovery, architecture, proofs of concept and executive demos.

    New business
    $9M

    sourced and closed as the technical lead.

    Total deal value
    $150M+

    supported across 15+ strategic wins, in cycles from $500K to $10M+.

    Saves
    4

    late-stage deals rescued by resolving technical objections, worth about $800K.

    Background

    Sell it, deploy it, build it.

    Ten years on three sides of the same problem: getting software bought, getting it adopted, and building it myself. That mix is what forward-deployed and solutions work asks for.

    UPFRONT TicketsTechnical co-founder

    Live ticket price comparison across 9 marketplaces, with a public AI connector.

     Certus InnovationsTechnical product manager, promoted from full-stack developer

    RHINO and Apollo for the U.S. Air Force.

     NetAppSales engineer, financial services, New York

    Enterprise data platforms for Wall Street.
    The GalaxySide project

    A creator subscription network with split payments. 50+ beta creators and $100K+ in transactions processed.

    The Main Building and golden dome at the University of Notre Dame
    EducationUniversity of Notre Dame

    Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

    LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI)MCP serversAgent workflowsLLM evaluationPythonDjangoTypeScriptReactSwiftPostgresRedisAWSTechnical discoverySolution architectureProofs of conceptExecutive demosPilot-to-production rollouts
    Open to forward-deployed and solutions roles

    Let's talk.

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