Britton Taylor
AI Product Manager | Founder | 18 years across film, real estate and software
I've spent eighteen years taking things from nothing to real: scenes on a film screen, a leather goods line, a real estate company I ran for eight years, and software a nonprofit now runs on every day. Almost all of it I built alone or with a handful of people. What I'm building toward now is the opposite: a strong team, a hard problem, and work that changes something.
Selected work
Three builds, told from the inside.
- 01
Zero to one, with real users
EmpowerME Lead Management System
A five-day hackathon build that cut first contact on childcare inquiries from about 23 hours to 4.2, now in daily use and still my responsibility.
- 4.2 hrs
- Average first contact, last 10 leads. Was ~23 hrs.
- 6 of 6
- Inquiry routes now land in one place
- 98%
- Of the shipped build was mine, directing AI tooling
- 02
Product judgment under ambiguity
Harbour
A dashboard I built for my own real estate clients, run as a hypothesis test with the failure conditions written down before anyone logged in.
- 3 thresholds
- Written before launch. None met yet.
- 9 decisions
- Logged, including the ones that reversed me
- 1 client
- Below my own usage threshold, and I'm not reading it yet
- 03
Founder judgment
Magnetic Residential
Building a real estate company around a gap in how agents grow, learning what actually held it together, and making a market bet I'd make differently today.
- 8 years
- Founded and ran, Sacramento
- ~$500K
- Peak gross commission income, 2022
- ~50%
- Of company revenue from my own deals
Background
Eighteen years of building. One through-line.
Film. Engineering. Consumer products. Real estate. AI. Different industries. Same instinct.
- Now
Director of Product Strategy, Single Mom Strong
Nonprofit board seat. Built and shipped the EmpowerME Lead Management System, live since August 2026.
- Now
Luxury real estate advisor, Nick Sadek Sotheby’s International Realty
Advising buyers and sellers across the Sacramento region.
- 2024–now
Fellow, then Executive Member, Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy
Led a three-person team from idea to business plan, financials and a pitch to about 200 business leaders, and won all three cohort awards, including the teamwork award our fellow cohort members voted on. Now work with the board to improve the program and raise funds.
- 2016–2024
Co-Founder and CEO, Taylor Real Estate Group, then Magnetic Residential
Built a real estate team in 2016 and launched it as my own brokerage in 2021. Owned the P&L, recruiting and growth, and designed the teamerage model it ran on.
- 2015–2016
Founder, Roadworthy Accessories
Designed leather travel goods and took them to prototype with leather makers in New York.
- 2008–2015
Visual effects artist, film
Visual effects artist on 18 film credits, including How to Train Your Dragon, Captain America: The First Avenger and Hugo. Then went back to study engineering, to understand how systems work underneath.
Contact
Building something early that needs to change how people work? I'd like to hear about it.
And if there's someone you think I should know, I take introductions seriously and I show up the same way.