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Kaya HickinKaya HickinCo-founder & CTO · Cleveland, OH

Builder, operator, founder.

Working full-time in my family's business at 14, valedictorian out of high school, shipping companies ever since. I build consumer AI for behavior change.

Shipped two iOS apps to the App Store and trained the custom multimodal model behind one of them. Self-funded my Miami University tuition. Graduated cum laude.

DHS Trusted Tester with an assessed Microsoft credential in AI security. View my credentials and training.

8 yrs

professional experience

3-for-3

profitable companies

100B+

Codex and Claude tokens

16.8K+

GitHub contributions

Education

Miami University · Cum laude

B.S. in Business, Marketing major, Entrepreneurship minor. Farmer School of Business, May 2026.

Jan 2023 to Jun 2024
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LeadBoost Pro

Co-Founder

Dorm-room start, profitable from month one. Built 20+ custom websites freshman year. Marketing, web dev, and consulting for blue collar businesses.

Jun 2024 to Feb 2025
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Appointra

Co-Founder · CTO

Co-founded with Giancarlo. Built cold-email infra that hit $20k MRR in three months and drove $2M+ in pipeline for 8/9-figure founders.

Jan 2025 to Present
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MyFutureSelf

Co-Founder · CTO

Consumer AI: a 90-day roadmap and a voice mentor that speaks as your future self. Built the original product end to end and lead engineering across mobile, web, backend, and AI.

A year of shipping

19,550 contributions

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