Evan Brown in a white hoodie and glasses, with an orange kitten perched on his shoulder

Hello, I'm

evan brown

brown12evan@gmail.com

Strategy consultant helping sales teams grow, with a plan and the AI agents to back it up.

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About

a little about me

Hi, I'm Evan.

I'm a strategy consultant at Wavestone, and I've spent the last five years helping companies rethink how they sell and how they're organized. That means sales transformation, operating model design, and organizational restructuring: the work of turning a big strategy into something regional teams can actually run with.

I came up through computer science, so a lot of my work now sits where those two worlds meet. I build AI agents that help clients' sales teams find and win more revenue, and I like being the person who can write the plan and ship the prototype.

Projects

things i've built

A mix of side projects and client work, some for fun and some for revenue.

  • Fretflow

    Side project · Web app

    A Guitar Hero–style chord trainer. Chords scroll down a highway toward you and you play them in time, so practice feels more like a game than a chore.

    • React
    • Vite
    • HTML5 Canvas
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  • Pagefold

    Side business · Notion templates

    A Notion template business I started from scratch, from the business plan and brand identity to the templates themselves, built to help people get organized without the setup headache.

    • Notion
    • Branding
    • Claude
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  • AI sales agents

    Client work · Wavestone

    Agents I design and build for clients' sales organizations. I take them end to end: use-case discovery with sales leadership, prompt and workflow design, CRM integration, and rollout to 50+ reps across seven regions. The goal is simple: less busywork, more selling.

    • Copilot Studio
    • Salesforce
    • Prompt & workflow design
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  • More on the way

    I'm always tinkering on something. Check back soon.

Blog

things i've written

My latest posts from Substack.

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Hobbies

off the clock

  • Guitar

    Always learning the next song. I liked practicing so much I built an app to make it more fun.

  • Reading

    About 50 books a year, all over the map: science, history, business, and a good novel when I need one. Browse my library →

  • Video games

    Lately I'm deep into vintage GameCube games, digging up the classics and finally playing the ones I missed growing up.

Library

books i've read recently

Everything I've finished, with a rating and a few words on each. Tap a book to open it.

  • All About Lovebell hooks

    4/5Nonfiction

    A clear-eyed look at what love actually is, and how we learn (and fail to learn) to give and receive it.

  • One Piece, Vol. 2Eiichiro Oda

    3/5Manga

    Luffy's crew starts to take shape as he runs into Buggy the Clown and his circus of pirates.

  • One Piece, Vol. 3Eiichiro Oda

    4/5Manga

    Usopp joins the story, and a quiet village has to face down a pirate crew in disguise.

  • Blood Over Bright HavenM.L. Wang

    5/5Fantasy

    A brilliant woman fights her way into a magic-run city's elite, only to uncover the terrible cost its magic is built on.

  • Rogue ProtocolMartha Wells

    3/5Science Fiction

    Murderbot, a security android that would rather be watching TV, digs into a corporation's shady terraforming project.

  • Disquiet GodsChristopher Ruocchio

    4/5Science Fiction

    The sixth Sun Eater book: Hadrian Marlowe is pulled back into the war against the Cielcin as the empire's politics turn against him.

  • The Dregs of EmpireChristopher Ruocchio

    4/5Science Fiction

    A Sun Eater novella set between Ashes of Man and Disquiet Gods.

  • Ashes of ManChristopher Ruocchio

    3/5Science Fiction

    The fifth Sun Eater book: Hadrian, broken by what came before, faces a brutal Cielcin assault on the empire.

  • The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman

    4/5Classics

    A short, unsettling story of a woman confined to a room "for her health" and slowly consumed by its wallpaper.

  • I Am Not Your NegroJames Baldwin

    5/5Nonfiction

    Baldwin's unfinished account of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., and what their deaths say about America.

  • Kingdoms of DeathChristopher Ruocchio

    5/5Science Fiction

    The fourth Sun Eater book: Hadrian is sent deep into Cielcin territory on a diplomatic mission that goes very wrong.

  • An Echo of Things to ComeJames Islington

    4/5Fantasy

    Book two of the Licanius Trilogy: the heroes scatter as an ancient prison weakens and old secrets come due.

  • The Shadow of What Was LostJames Islington

    4/5Fantasy

    Book one of the Licanius Trilogy: three students with dangerous gifts are drawn into a war that has been waiting for them.

  • The Light of All That FallsJames Islington

    5/5Fantasy

    The Licanius finale, where time loops, prophecy and fate finally come together.

  • RandomizeAndy Weir

    3/5Science Fiction

    A short story about a Las Vegas casino, a quantum computer and a heist to beat the house.

  • Demon in WhiteChristopher Ruocchio

    4/5Science Fiction

    The third Sun Eater book: Hadrian's growing fame at war makes him a threat to the emperor he serves.

  • Project Hail MaryAndy Weir

    5/5Science Fiction

    A lone astronaut wakes with no memory on a ship light-years from home and has to science his way out of an extinction-level problem.

  • Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates

    3/5Nonfiction

    A letter from Coates to his teenage son about living in a Black body in America.

  • The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka

    3/5Classics

    Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant insect, and his family has to decide what he's worth now.

  • The Devil Finds WorkJames Baldwin

    3/5Nonfiction

    Baldwin's book-length essay on movies, and how Hollywood shows (and hides) race in America.

  • Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen

    3/5Classics

    Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy misjudge each other at every turn in Austen's sharp comedy of manners.

  • 1984George Orwell

    4/5Classics

    Winston Smith quietly rebels against a surveillance state that controls the news, the language and history itself.

  • If Beale Street Could TalkJames Baldwin

    4/5Classics

    A young Harlem couple's love story, tested when he's jailed for a crime he didn't commit.

  • The Hating GameSally Thorne

    4/5Romance

    Two executive assistants who can't stand each other compete for the same promotion, and the rivalry turns into something else.

Photography

through the lens

A few favorites from around Charlotte and further afield. Hover over (or tap) a photo for the story.

  • The Ravenel Bridge's white cable towers stretching across the harbor on a clear evening
    The Ravenel Bridge from the water's edge Charleston, SC
  • A bright retro mural reading Plaza Midwood in white block letters over teal, orange and red stripes
    The Plaza Midwood mural Plaza Midwood, Charlotte, NC
  • The Calle Sol sign at 1205 Thomas Ave, shot looking up into the sun
    Calle Sol, into the sun Plaza Midwood, Charlotte, NC
  • An older man in a dark suit lining up a pool shot in a neon-lit bar
    Late-night pool Plaza Midwood, Charlotte, NC
  • A crowd gathered around a performer in a hot dog costume singing into a microphone on a neighborhood street
    CLT's inaugural Hot Dog Crawl Plaza Midwood, Charlotte, NC
  • Main street with the brick New Sheridan hotel and a Wild West Fest banner, mountains behind
    Wild West Fest on Colorado Ave Telluride, CO
  • Crowds of visitors in front of the Parthenon under a blue sky
    The Parthenon Athens, Greece
  • A large Greek flag flying over the Acropolis with the city and mountains beyond
    The flag over the Acropolis Athens, Greece
  • A Greek flag on the stern of a boat, with Santorini's layered caldera cliffs behind
    Leaving the caldera Santorini, Greece
  • The ornate marble facade and rose windows of Florence Cathedral
    Il Duomo Florence, Italy

Interests

what i nerd out about

Space

Launches, missions, and the wild engineering it takes to leave the planet and come back.

Physics

The weirder the better. I'll happily go down a quantum or cosmology rabbit hole on any night.

Football

Sundays are spoken for. I love the strategy as much as the highlights.

Analog music

An ever-growing wall of vinyl and CDs. I love hunting through record bins and hearing an album front to back, the way it was meant to be played.