Building stuff, breaking assumptions, sharing the lessons.

Salt & Wisdom is Tim Milazzo's operating studio — spanning startups, open experiments, long-term ideas, and selective consulting & advisory work.

Work With Me

I take a small number of fractional engagements with $2M–$20M B2B companies — especially in fintech, proptech, and tech-enabled services.

Revenue Operations

Your pipeline runs on gut feel. → I build the system so it doesn't have to.

Digital Product Strategy

Your roadmap is a wish list. → I find the product and growth moves you're not seeing yet.

AI & Automation Implementation

You've bought the tools. Nothing works yet. → I build an AI coworker your team actually uses every day.

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What Salt & Wisdom Does

Salt & Wisdom is the operating studio of Tim Milazzo, a founder and operator based in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. It is one person, deliberately: a mix of building products, running selective consulting and advisory engagements, publishing what works and what does not, and keeping a few long-term ideas alive in the background. The work spans startups, capital markets, real estate, and applied artificial intelligence.

Most engagements start with a short discovery call, move into a diagnostic of the current revenue engine or operations stack, and then into embedded execution alongside the existing team. If a project is not a fit, that gets said early. Direct contact for new work, speaking, or press is tim@saltandwisdom.com.

Fractional Leadership

Embedded operating help for founders and small teams: revenue engines, product pipelines, hiring plans, and the boring systems that make growth repeatable. Engagements are hands-on rather than advisory-only, and typically run three to six months at 10–15 hours per week.

Capital Advisory

Practical support for raising and deploying capital: narrative and materials, investor targeting and outreach tracking, diligence preparation, and modeling for debt, SBA financing, and real estate deals. Built from a decade of proptech and capital markets work, including founding and scaling StackSource.

AI & Automation

Design and implementation of AI-native workflows: agent tooling, retrieval and enrichment pipelines, internal dashboards, and automations that remove manual steps from sales, operations, and reporting. Experiments run in the open so the lessons are reusable.

How It Works

Discovery Call (25 min)

We talk about where your business is stuck and whether I'm the right fit. No pitch deck, no pressure.

Growth Diagnostic (Week 1)

I audit your current revenue engine, product pipeline, or operations stack and deliver a prioritized action plan.

Embedded Execution (Ongoing)

I work alongside your team 10–15 hours/week to build the systems, not just the strategy. Typical engagements run 3–6 months.

Background

I was a big tech employee in New York before founding, then exiting, a fintech with a fellow ex-Google employee. Now I help companies through consulting and advisory.

Google

Sales & Operations

2011 – 2013

Facebook

Sales Operations

2013 – 2015

StackSource

Founder & CEO

2016 – 2024

Salt & Wisdom

Founder

2024 – Present

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Trusted
voices

"[Tim's system] allowed me to scale my business quickly to a level that I had set as a top end goal."

Seven-figure commercial real estate broker

"Tim is an expert at translating business needs into a clear product vision and setting a strategic roadmap. He is a visionary who inspires and supports those around him."

Google software engineer turned startup CTO

"After working with Tim, I would never build another sales team without Sales Ops support again."

CRO of tech startup that exited for nine figures