// Overview
Nic DeMore
Milwaukee native. Mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur. Building AI-native ventures and tools for the builders.
// Overview
Nic DeMore
Milwaukee native. Mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur. Building AI-native ventures and tools that let small teams operate at scale.
Good work, done right, reaches further than you expect. The whole point is doing good at scale: building things that solve real problems, create real impact, and compound over time.
How I Got Here
“I build things because I can't help it. It's the most honest thing I know how to do.”
Learning About Life
Milwaukee, WI
Raised in Milwaukee with deep roots and a curious mind. Grew up watching my grandfather fish McKinley Pier. Learned early that hard work, integrity, and showing up for people is the foundation everything else is built on.
Learning About Life
Milwaukee, WI
Raised in Milwaukee with deep roots and a curious mind. Grew up watching my grandfather fish McKinley Pier. Learned early that hard work, integrity, and showing up for people is the foundation everything else is built on.
First Business Launch, Age 18
Direct Sales
Started my first business straight out of high school. Surrounded myself with mentors, absorbed everything I could, and learned the basics of what it means to build something from nothing: sales, communication, and the discipline it takes to actually execute.
First Business Launch, Age 18
Direct Sales
Started my first business straight out of high school. Surrounded myself with mentors, absorbed everything I could, and learned the basics of what it means to build something from nothing: sales, communication, and the discipline it takes to actually execute.
Mechanical Engineering
Marquette University
Systems thinking baked in from day one. Engineering taught me to see the world as a set of forces, tolerances, and constraints; and to design solutions that hold up under pressure. That lens never left.
Mechanical Engineering
Marquette University
Systems thinking baked in from day one. Engineering taught me to see the world as a set of forces, tolerances, and constraints; and to design solutions that hold up under pressure. That lens never left.
Co-Founded Margle Media
Digital Marketing Agency
Co-founded Margle Media and scaled it to a full-service agency serving national brands. Touched every dimension of the business: paid strategy for Cousins Subs, Johnsonville, Frito-Lay, Florsheim, Instant Pot; built and managed ops, AR/AP, cashflow, and utilization reporting; hired and led the team through direct reports, reviews, and org structure; handled IT, legal, and creative production; owned client relationships end-to-end. The real-world MBA.
Co-Founded Margle Media
Digital Marketing Agency
Co-founded Margle Media and scaled it to a full-service agency serving national brands. Touched every dimension of the business: paid strategy for Cousins Subs, Johnsonville, Frito-Lay, Florsheim, Instant Pot; built and managed ops, AR/AP, cashflow, and utilization reporting; hired and led the team through direct reports, reviews, and org structure; handled IT, legal, and creative production; owned client relationships end-to-end. The real-world MBA.
Running Every Dimension
Margle Media
Nine years operating every function of a growing agency: sales, ops, finance, HR, client management, production, legal, IT. If a digital agency can ask it of you, I've done it. Built the leadership team, managed the P&L, grew the client roster, and kept the machine running.
Running Every Dimension
Margle Media
Nine years operating every function of a growing agency: sales, ops, finance, HR, client management, production, legal, IT. If a digital agency can ask it of you, I've done it. Built the leadership team, managed the P&L, grew the client roster, and kept the machine running.
Home Design Educator + Course Creator
Foundations of Architecture
Spent two years learning architecture to design my dream home. Obsessively. Turned that education into FOA, a course for non-architects who want to approach their space with genuine intention. Not an architect. Just someone who learned until it clicked.
Home Design Educator + Course Creator
Foundations of Architecture
Spent two years learning architecture to design my dream home. Obsessively. Turned that education into FOA, a course for non-architects who want to approach their space with genuine intention. Not an architect. Just someone who learned until it clicked.
AI Builder + Venture Studio
Good at Scale Studio
Building AI-native infrastructure and purpose-driven ventures. Autonomous agent systems, AI ops, and a studio built to do good, at scale. The 12×12 challenge: 12 ventures in 12 months.
AI Builder + Venture Studio
Good at Scale Studio
Building AI-native infrastructure and purpose-driven ventures. Autonomous agent systems, AI ops, and a studio built to do good, at scale. The 12×12 challenge: 12 ventures in 12 months.
What I Bring
An operator with rare breadth and serious depth: across engineering, marketing, finance, AI, and everything in between. I gravitate toward hard problems, stay relentlessly curious, and have a knack for distilling complexity into clarity.
What I'm Building
From education platforms to AI infrastructure: each venture is a bet on building something that matters.
Architecture as a Way of Seeing
“I spent two years learning architecture to design my dream home. That obsession became a course.”Explore FOA Course→
I'm not an architect. I'm an engineer who fell in love with how buildings think. It started when I decided to design my dream home from scratch, and realized I needed to learn how to see the world the way architects do.
That obsession became hundreds of hours studying residential design, spatial flow, materiality, and the principles that make great spaces feel inevitable. I learned alongside architects, as collaborators, never competitors.
I built Foundations of Architecture to give other non-architects the same framework: a way to think about space, light, materials, and proportion so they can be a better partner to the professionals who bring buildings to life.
Every Gift Creates Change
“Meaningful gift registries where 100% of products come from verified impact-driven brands. Every gift purchased creates measurable change.”
Traveling through Kenya, my wife and I saw small local brands creating profound community impact: women learning to sew, artisans preserving traditional crafts. Back home, I noticed the gap; conscious consumers wanted to give gifts that meant something, but no registry was built for it.
Giveable is the curated registry where 100% of brands are impact-driven. Gift-giving becomes a vehicle for doing good, without the friction of a donation ask. Every transaction generates measurable impact through the brands' built-in giving models.
Create Registry
Set up a registry in minutes. Choose your occasion, add details, and customize your preferences.
Add Products
Browse a curated collection of gifts from verified impact-driven brands and add your favorites.
Share It
Share your registry with friends and family via link, text, email, or QR code.
Create Impact
Every gift purchased creates measurable charitable impact. Track your total over time.
Let's Work Together
I'm always interested in connecting with people who care about craft, design, and building things that actually matter. Let's talk.
Prefer email? nademore@gmail.com
Based in Milwaukee, WI