Michael N.

Michael Neal

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Build Better AI Products | Founder, Operator, and Coach

5,630 min coached

44 followers

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Studied at Chicago Booth

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Worked at Centerview Partners

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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

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Summer Associate

Centerview Partners

June 2025 - August 2025

Technology Group

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Consultant

Deloitte

November 2020 - September 2024

Cloud Strategy / Tech coverage

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Head Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

August 2018 - August 2020

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Operations engineer

KATERRA

May 2019 - August 2019

Education

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Chicago Booth

MBA & MS CS

2024 - 2026

Activities and societies: Investment Banking Group — Technical Lead; Quantum @ Booth — Founder

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BS + MS, Civil Engineering

2016 - 2020

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