
Michael Neal
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Build Better AI Products | Founder, Operator, and Coach
5,630 min coached
44 followers
Studied at Chicago Booth
Worked at Centerview Partners
Successful clients at
Available tomorrow at 11:00 PM UTC
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Michael's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $150/hr
Get help with AI Product Design, Scoping & Requirements, and .
Michael also coaches for Investment Banking, AI for Data & Analytics, and AI Automation & Agents. View all.
Michael’s AI for Product Development Qualifications
Experience level: Executive
Michael has helped clients get into these companies:
I build AI products from the ground up. As the founder of an AI-powered platform, I’ve worked across the full product stack: identifying user pain points, designing product flows, building MVPs, instrumenting analytics, iterating on retention, and refining monetization. I’ve also helped startups and small businesses build internal tools, data workflows, and AI-driven solutions, so I understand both what it takes to ship quickly and what it takes to make a product actually useful. My edge is that I bridge product, technical execution, and strategy. I can help with product definition, feature prioritization, user experience, AI workflow design, prompt-driven systems, data-backed iteration, and go-to-market thinking. My background includes cloud architecture, ETL tooling, analytics, NLP, LLM API-based products, and hands-on experimentation with what makes users adopt, retain, and pay. Whether you’re trying to go from idea to MVP, improve an existing AI product, or position yourself for AI product roles, I can help you build with much better judgment and speed.
Michael can help with:
AI Product Design
Scoping & Requirements
AI Roadmap Development
AI Agents
Product Strategy
User Research & Insights Automation
LLM-Optimized Code Base
QA
AI Automation
Freelancing
Prototyping with AI
Feature Prioritization
Michael also coaches for Investment Banking, AI for Data & Analytics, and AI Automation & Agents. View all.
About Michael
I walked out of my Centerview superday knowing I had the offer — not because I was the smartest candidate, but because I had figured out what actually mattered in the room. That became the foundation for everything I've built since. I led UChicago's Investment Banking Group as Technical Lead and helped dozens of candidates land offers before founding OFFERGOBLIN, the adaptive prep platform with 5,000+ verified interview questions from every major bank. I wrote the industry's open-access textbook on IB technicals. My full-time job — my only job — is figuring out what gets people offers and building systems around it.
Why do I coach?
Most coaches fit sessions in between deal work or their day job. This is all I do. No busy season. No distractions. I've seen every failure mode, I know exactly where the bar is, and my only focus is getting you over it.
Work Experience
Summer Associate
Centerview Partners
June 2025 - August 2025
Technology Group

Consultant
Deloitte
November 2020 - September 2024
Cloud Strategy / Tech coverage
Head Teaching Assistant
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
August 2018 - August 2020
Operations engineer
KATERRA
May 2019 - August 2019
Education

Chicago Booth
MBA & MS CS
2024 - 2026
Activities and societies: Investment Banking Group — Technical Lead; Quantum @ Booth — Founder
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS + MS, Civil Engineering
2016 - 2020
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Michael has helped clients get into these companies: