Jim Tauer · Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN

AI-Powered Customer Success, In Practice.

Customer Success, Support & Training executive, 15+ years in SaaS. I build AI tools to answer account questions, flag churn risk, and identify upsell opportunities.

Business Builds

AI systems, built for a working CS team

VISIBILITY
Customer Dashboard — weekly ticket volume, last 30 days (sample data)

Customer Dashboard

Support tickets, product usage, projects, CRM and billing data — organized around one question: who needs attention before renewal, not at renewal? Its centerpiece is a 120-day renewal view with usage trends, recent ticket counts, and a per-account recommendation with its rationale.

AI ASSISTANT

KAI — Key Account Insights

An AI analyst for the CS team, connecting five systems via MCP. Ask for a health snapshot and KAI assembles usage, support history, account notes, and renewal timing into a Healthy / Watch / At-risk read — every fact attributed to its source, and a clear “the data doesn’t say” instead of a confident guess.

ACCOUNT INTELLIGENCE

Paperboy — Customer News Scan

A monthly scan of top-revenue accounts — company sites plus Google News, Reuters, CNBC, and more — tracks layoffs, M&A, expansions, and executive moves. Internal data shows what a customer does in your product; this catches the outside story before it becomes a surprise cancellation. A hit prompts a conversation, and action when the scenario calls for it.

Websites Built With AI

Live sites, real businesses

LIVE

Scan a Stuffy

A cherished stuffed animal or childhood photo becomes a custom 3D-printed replica. End-to-end build — offer, storybook-style site, Stripe checkout.

LIVE

Master Baker Lisa

A complete site for a custom baker — cakes, cupcakes, cheesecakes, cookies. The order flow is designed around how custom baking actually sells: quote-first for custom orders, instant buy for ready-made items.

COMING SOON

Ana Mariposa Jewelry

Client site for a hand-beaded jewelry business — designed around her real logo and pieces, with a simple owner admin so a non-technical owner can add photos and update pieces herself. Launching soon.

The Lab · Personal Builds

Hands-on, off the clock

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND 3D PRINT

The Baluster Stain Shield

Staining a deck with aluminum balusters means one of two things: hours of taping each individual one, or a huge mess. After looking everywhere for a solution to this problem, I designed reusable 3D-printed snap-on shields with AI help: a 3-baluster comb sized to my printer’s bed. From there, I produced a fast-print version that cut print time from 90 to under 50 minutes, and a separate 35° version for the stairs.

The Baluster Stain Shield snapped onto deck balusters during staining
CUSTOM 3D PRINTING

Scan a Stuffy - from digital to physical

Just a single photo of your cherished stuffed animal becomes a custom 3D-printed keepsake.

The original stuffed animal
→
The 3D-printed replica
The originalThe replica
The original stuffed animal
→
The 3D-printed replica
The originalThe replica
Step 1

Share the original

Send the stuffy itself, or photos of it — it works even from a single old photo if the original is gone.

Step 2

The digital sculpt

Each replica is modeled individually, feature by feature, until it looks like that stuffy — not a generic bear.

Step 3

Print & finish

The model is 3d printed.

Step 4

Homecoming

The finished replica ships home, ready to sit on the shelf next to — or stand in for — the original.

VIBE-CODED APP · LIVE DATA

Score 64 — live sports scores on a 64×64 pixel display

Score 64 showing a live NFL score on the Pixoo 64 display

A custom application I vibe-coded for the Pixoo 64, a desktop LED pixel display. Score 64 pulls live scores from the ESPN API and shows them at a glance — NFL, NHL, MLB, and NBA — no phone, no app to open, just scores on the shelf while the games are on.

Designing for a 64×64 canvas is an information-design problem in miniature: team, score, and game state, readable from across the room in a handful of pixels.

Credentials

Recent AI training

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The resume — two ways

Interactive: explore the timeline, filter my experience by what you're hiring for, and jump from any claim straight to the portfolio build that proves it. Classic: the full resume as a PDF, for your files or your ATS.

📄 Interactive Resume ⬇ PDF Download

Certificate